FROM THE MAGAZINE

August 2020

‘It’s hard to oppose, let alone revile, a man who often seems to have no idea what he is saying. Biden elicits a combination of sympathy and apathy, yet he keeps surging ahead in the polls.’

Politics

The war for your mind

The Russians are coming. Again

By Paul Wood

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Politics

Donald Trump isn’t mad

The President on the couch

By Sheldon Roth, MD

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The Sex Worker of Babylon

The first usage of the term dates back to the New York Times in 1971

By Dot Wordsworth

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China

Save Taiwan

After Hong Kong, China has its eyes on another prize

By Alessio Patalano

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American magicians in London

In 2003, David Blaine spent 44 days in a plexiglass box suspended above the River Thames. It was amazing, yes, but it wasn’t magic

By Revd Steve Morris

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Politics

Biden is not the president America needs

First, he is old. Second, he is old-school

By Andrew Bacevich

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Internet

Twitter has stolen my life

I’m a slave to my online persona. And she’s a slave to the algorithm, and we must feed the algorithm

By Bridget Phetasy

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Politics

Same old same old

Politics is less bedeviled by the age of the parties’ leaders than by the staleness of the parties’ programs

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

Obama’s disappearing legacy

What exactly did he achieve?

By David J. Garrow

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China

How liberal globalism went bankrupt

Slain by the dragon

By Michael Lind

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Politics

What will Biden do?

Prepare for four more years of executive disappointment

By Matthew Continetti

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The bourgeois class is the most cowardly and easily intimidated in history

The alliance between the Intelligentsia and the Cave Anarchists, while informal, is also entirely natural and indeed inevitable

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Spectator Editorial

Biden offers no change and no hope

Expect four more years of disappointment and stasis

By Spectator Editorial

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Internet

Godfrey’s Race to Dinner

Your vanilla voice is not welcome. Your low-pigment opinions are invalid

By Godfrey Elfwick

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The dawn of the sex pest celebrity

Why can’t the famous stop thrusting their sexuality on us?

By Julie Burchill

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