FROM THE MAGAZINE

August 2022

Spectator Editorial

Why ESG is sinister

There’s a long overdue backlash brewing

By Spectator Editorial

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The ugly end of Boris Johnson

It will take some time to reassure the world that the UK is a model of self-government

By Conrad Black

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Culture

The crisis of Generation Z

The kids are not all right, and the experts have been sounding alarms for years

By Jesse Singal

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Science & Tech

The ‘conversion therapy’ canard

Biden is doing trans activists’ bidding and young Americans will suffer

By Madeleine Kearns

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Education

The true birth of communism

For Aristophanes, communism was one long, uproarious joke

By Peter Jones

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Education

Why I joined the college exodus

Gen Z is realizing that approval from a fancy university isn’t the only path to success

By Rikki Schlott

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Culture

It’s time for feminists to say #MenToo

The great emancipation of women has brought the great emasculation of our brothers

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Politics

Life after liberalism

As its institutional order rots, will the American right be ascendant?

By Daniel McCarthy

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Business

Vince McMahon’s final act

To say he’s the most indefatigable promoter that ever lived is an understatement

By Art Tavana

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Politics

Dobbs has changed America forever

Abortion once scrambled the country’s politics. It will do so again

By Ben Domenech

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Culture

I apologize for my white baby

How can I extol the virtues of anti-racism while birthing another white person?

By Bridget Phetasy

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Policy

The coldness of K Street

A bootblack is a bootblack in the eyes of the lobbyists and lawyers

By Billy McMorris

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Politics

Henry Kissinger on Ukraine and China

The foreign policy guru sits down with The Spectator

By Andrew Roberts and Henry Kissinger

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International

Walking Hanoi

I’m in Hanoi for a month as part of my Walking the World project

By Chris Arnade

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Politics

What John Durham has proved

The special counsel exploded a ‘resistance’ myth

By Eli Lake

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Economics

Inflation is the great destroyer

Joe Biden, take note: you’re no Ronald Reagan

By Matt Purple

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Science & Tech

How LSD helped me find God

Historically, many psychedelics were used as divinatory tools

By Birdie Hall

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Politics

The great White House replacement

Joe Biden is an errand boy, a figurehead, and he has outlived his plausibility

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

Asking a rabbi about abortion

Perhaps surprisingly, Judaism does not have a black-and-white stance on the issue

By Daniella Greenbaum Davis

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Law

The cost of decarceration

Sometimes our criminal justice system isn’t harsh enough

By Rafael A. Mangual

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