FROM THE MAGAZINE

August 2021

Business

Journalism’s class problem has gotten worse

When they arrive in newsrooms, privileged young people bring their values and priorities with them

By Jesse Singal

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Politics

The monsters we become

Nietzsche was the first to ‘own the libs’

By Dominic Green

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International

Why we need bullfighting

The art of the corrida teaches respect for mortality

By Christopher North

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Education

How to win the culture war

If the right will take a stand against the new racial obsessions, the American public stands ready to give its support

By Daniel McCarthy

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Education

Read Ray Bradbury before he’s canceled

Frankly, it’s a wonder we are allowed to read him at all

By Rod Liddle

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Politics

Old Glory, new anger

America’s mood is somewhere between despondency and revolt

By Peter W. Wood

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Education

Critical father theory

Black and white America alike suffer from the failure of functional older men to socialize younger men

By Mary Eberstadt

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Politics

Anti-anti-crime policies are ruining American cities

Let’s get the myths out of the way: COVID wasn’t the main driver behind the recent crime surge

By Sohrab Ahmari

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Education

My role in our demographic disaster

Children and families are the hottest topics in politics — and I can’t help but feel left out

By Mary Kate Skehan

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Business

Let’s make it a Hot Bartender Summer

The summer gleams with potential — and once again the epithets have started to fly

By Matt Purple

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Politics

My country, right or left

Today, the Democratic version of patriotism seems to be an endless stream of resentment and self-loathing

By Bridget Phetasy

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Middle East

Iran’s president is a mass murderer

Ebrahim Raisi was — and remains — Iran’s hanging judge

By Paul Wood

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International

Who owns the Benin bronzes?

African artifacts are too hot to handle

By Michael Mosbacher

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Politics

Lori Lightfoot’s inner Republican

Chicago is turning into New York, only with worse weather

By Ed Zotti

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Politics

The FBI has lost the plot

Who gave the Feds access to Twitter?

By Roger Kimball

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International

How the US military got rich from Afghanistan

Trillions of dollars have flowed through the Pentagon’s war budgets in the last two decades

By Andrew Cockburn

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Spectator Editorial

Give peace a chance

If America is to remain a superpower, the age of elective wars must end

By Spectator Editorial

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Politics

Marxism, soccer and Trump’s demise: Tom Holland and Francis Fukuyama in conversation

‘I do think that with the rise of this really crazy right, you have to turn to social psychology for an explanation’

By Tom Holland and Francis Fukuyama

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