FROM THE MAGAZINE

April 2023

Family

A woman for all seasons

If my sentimentals connect me to truth, beauty and goodness, can they really be so bad?

By Teresa Mull

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Politics

A history lesson for Joe Biden

Putin made no move in Ukraine during Trump’s administration. Coincidence?

By Roger Kimball

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Science & Tech

Did Ernest Hemingway have CTE?

His suicide remains one of literary history’s mysteries

By Kevin Cook

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Education

Where do the Elgin marbles belong? 

Their display in the Duveen gallery of the British Museum in London is not impressive

By Peter Jones

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Business

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the anti-confidence man

The writer, Twitter warrior and flâneur is so popular because he isn’t selling you anything

By Rosie Gray

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Business

The unstoppable march of the gambling giants

The golden age of sport betting has barely begun

By Neal Pollack

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Family

Confessions of the mommy groupchat

Every woman, pregnant or not, needs a Grumpy Mommy Compound

By Bridget Phetasy

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Family

Yawn: your childhood just died again

When the transgressive becomes normal, the normal will become transgressive

By Matt Purple

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Politics

The other DeSantis

There’s no Ron without Casey

By Oliver Wiseman

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Science & Tech

Why are we still funding gain-of-function research?

Some scientists warn that the studies are an ‘extinction-level risk’

By Ashley Rindsberg

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International

The Paraguay predicament over Taiwan

Is Taiwan about to lose one of its closest allies?

By John Pietro

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Politics

Nancy Mace, the Waffle House populist

The South Carolina lawmaker is a serious congresswoman in unserious times

By Ben Domenech

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International

How to win the war that everyone is losing

Europe must be left to police Europe and Asia to police Asia

By Daniel McCarthy

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Spectator Editorial

Save America’s cities

How much worse do things have to get before they get better?

By Spectator Editorial

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Culture

A new book and a newborn

I find myself wondering how I might have fared were I a child today

By Bethany Mandel

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Politics

Why the national divorce worked: a future history

A benign break-up is now a beacon to dissatisfied land conglomerates everywhere

By Billy McMorris

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Diary

The RNC should tell us who gets to make the debates

Engaging in debate with me, I think, is not something that the other candidates will relish

By Vivek Ramaswamy

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