FROM THE MAGAZINE

August 2023

Spectator Editorial

How to make debate great again

The Spectator is firmly in favor of actual debate, not just performative chest-puffing’

By Spectator Editorial

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Diary

My time in France with Martin Amis

Paris, 1969, came surging back. I gave Martin black hair, for some reason

By William Boyd

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Health

A new war on obesity is underway

Twisted incentives are fueling the obesity crisis. These campaigners want to fix that

By Teresa Mull

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Family

The case against surrogacy

Nobody is morally entitled to buy or have whatever they want, especially a human baby

By Birdie Hall

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Health

Why antivax is back

Something changed post-Covid — and it may explain RFK Jr.’s rise in the polls

By Bridget Phetasy

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Campaign 2024

The GOP’s tribal warfare

These are the factions that will decide who wins the nomination

By Patrick Ruffini

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Campaign 2024

Trump versus the party

Once again, the GOP has Three Stooges syndrome

By Ben Domenech

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Royals

How should King Charles handle Prince Harry?

Seneca would have seen King Charles’s reaction as an admirable act of mercy

By Peter Jones

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Campaign 2024

The once and future president?

All Trump has to do is stay out of jail long enough to get back into the Oval Office

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

Operation Get Trump

For the FBI and other agencies, going too far has been worth it in the past

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

Joe Exotic’s presidential plans from prison

‘I want to debate Biden on all the failed promises he made,’ says the Tiger King star

By Chadwick Moore

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Health

My illegal abortion

Sixty years on, I still can’t bear to think about it

By Anne Seymour

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Media

What’s the media’s problem with black masculinity?

The only black men now being showcased are those who’ve conceded their masculinity

By David Christopher Kaufman

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Policy

The war on life’s simple pleasures

Time and again we are told that in pursuit of a cleaner planet, we all have to be miserable

By Amber Duke

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Education

Shakespeare in black and white

Race is not where we find it — it is where we put it

By Peter W. Wood

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International

What would Trump’s second-term foreign policy look like?

To the extent the former president has a worldview of his own, it is best understood as a smorgasbord of nationalism and pseudomercantilism

By Daniel DePetris

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Internet

Caroline Calloway sets the record straight

A decade ago, Calloway was all the rage, an Instagram celebrity with actual writing talent, a pretty face and a promising future

By Kara Kennedy

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Science & Tech

Meet the men who want to bring back the woolly mammoth

Dr. George Church and Ben Lamm say they’re not creating a real-life Jurassic Park

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

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