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December 2021

Spectator Editorial

The hostage president

As hostages to Biden’s misfortunes, we must hope that our luck holds in 2022

By Spectator Editorial

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It still plays in Peoria

I look forward to coming back to this classic place, for musical and other reasons

By Jay Nordlinger

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Politics

How Meghan Markle wins the White House

Welcome to Meghan’s world, where artifice, pop culture and politics march in lockstep

By Alexander Larman

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How the ancients handled refugees

In the ancient world, movements of people were also very common, often because war, famine or exile left them with no option

By Peter Jones

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Culture

Pregnant at the end of the world

Seeing that new life on the ultrasound gave me hope for the future — not dread

By Bridget Phetasy

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Internet

Can GETTR go the distance?

Without Trump, what does a platform that is essentially a clone of Twitter have to offer?

By Jay Caruso

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Politics

Who won the Cold War, anyway?

Conservatism may have won the Cold War, but conservatives lost the peace in the West

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

How Kyrsten Sinema brought Gen X to the Senate

Wielding power doesn’t have to mean going with the herd

By Stephen L. Miller

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Science & Tech

The doctor is mad

The American Medical Association has just issued a health equity guide

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

Latinas are the shape of things to come

The Latina is the antithesis of the liberal female Democrat

By Alex Perez

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Business

The death of the phone call

It is now standard to pop into colleagues’ homes uninvited, unannounced and unashamed

By Daniella Greenbaum Davis

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Europe

Have Americans got George III all wrong?

George III was a model monarch, whose reputation finally deserves rehabilitation a quarter of a millennium later

By Andrew Roberts

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Business

Netflix’s Chappelle of hate

Netflix received only a thousand or so complaints about a special watched by millions

By Jesse Singal

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Science & Tech

Our gadgets are misleading us

Modern gadgets are less and less our servants and more and more our masters

By Roger Scruton

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Politics

Wokeness is the return of white supremacy

If white supremacists are racist because they put race at the center of all human interaction, what are the woke?

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Business

Black tie in NYC

Arriving at the American Museum of Natural History, I present my vaccination card and negative Covid test result

By James Kirchick

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International

What Bernard-Henri Lévy sees for the West

I have come to ask Lévy about the future of the West — if, that is, he feels there will be one

By David Patrikarakos

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Europe

Florence with Dante

Had Dante been alive today, he would have reserved an inner circle of hell for the bureaucrats

By Paul Wood

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Middle East

Has Micah Goodman found the path to peace?

Since the fall of Benjamin Netanyahu, ‘shrinking the conflict’ has become the theme of the moment

By Jake Wallis Simons

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Culture

Life after sex

Sex is everywhere in America, except in the bedroom

By Karol Markowicz

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