FROM THE MAGAZINE

April 2024

Spectator Editorial

What happened to America’s capital?

There’s a significant reason why DC workers don’t want to go downtown: crime

By Spectator Editorial

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Diary

Journey to Jerusalem

The founders of sociology — I think especially of Max Weber — would have been fascinated by Israeli society

By Niall Ferguson

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Politics

Kangaroo courts and bills of attainder

The Biden administration and its surrogates are desperately trying to derail Trump’s candidacy by subjecting him to wholesale political prosecution

By Roger Kimball

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Policy

Why was last year DC’s most violent in decades?

While Republicans have used the spike in violent crime to point out problems with efforts to neuter police, this is far from a partisan issue

By Tim Rice

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Policy

How Dallas curbed violent crime

‘This is the best relationship I’ve ever seen between city hall, city council, the mayor and the police department’

By Patrick Hauf

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Family

My first year in Texas: the good, the bad and the surprising

The longer I’m here, the more I love it

By Bridget Phetasy

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Economics

How AI helps the tech giants

Artificial intelligence will help tech giants get even bigger. What will it mean for their human employees?

By Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky

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Science & Tech

Why everybody should have seen the Google Gemini blunder coming

Why didn’t the tech geniuses at Google foresee these unintended consequences?

By Stephen L. Miller

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International

Lessons from costly wars past

American credibility is said to be at stake in Ukraine. This is tragically true

By Daniel McCarthy

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Royals

King Charles’s cancer and the future

The greatest threat to its survival will come from within

By Alexander Larman

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Business

How game ranching protects endangered species

It’s been a boon for conservation

By Geoff Hill

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International

Nixing BRICS: how to counter the China-led alliance

The possibility that BRICS may become a serious competitor to Western-led international entities should be a wake-up call to Western leaders

By Henry Olsen

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Media

The depressed press

Polls say trust in media is at an all-time low. But a better reflection than that can be found in what’s happening in the journalism business

By Ben Domenech

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Education

Want student loan forgiveness? Make universities pay

What the Biden administration’s policies gloss over is a fundamental economic truth: debt cancellation isn’t an erasure but a transfer

By Marc Oestreich

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Education

How Cleon became a cautionary tale

His exploit gained him the prestige he longed for, and in 424 BC he was made a general

By Peter Jones

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Policy

Don’t let climate activists stop you from traveling

The travel scolds want us to feel guilty about venturing far from home when in fact, exploration is still life’s greatest university

By Dave Seminara

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