FROM THE MAGAZINE

December 2022

Spectator Editorial

How to survive the ‘permacrisis’

2022 was a hard year, but also a clarifying one

By Spectator Editorial

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Snapshots of Ukraine

It’s getting closer to victory, conserving its strength and moving at its own pace

By Bernard-Henri Lévy

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Business

Can Twitter still be saved?

Elon Musk will try but other meaningful options are starting to emerge

By Ashley Rindsberg

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Economics

What Hawaii taught me about American homelessness

A system designed to exploit will always exploit too much at its edges

By Peter Van Buren

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Culture

Have yourself a very basic Christmas

Normal is nice. Basic is beautiful

By Bridget Phetasy

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Politics

Mike Pompeo prepares for 2024

He has the energy of a politician who believes he can achieve whatever he sets his mind to

By Ben Domenech

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Education

How would the Romans have defined Meghan Markle?

They took the view that all human beings were personally accountable for their actions and fully responsible for the outcomes

By Peter Jones

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Europe

Europe’s euthanasia policies are uncivilized

There is something deeply strange, almost dystopian, in it

By Douglas Murray

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Politics

What conservatives lack

What the cultured right needs is what the left has: an avant-garde

By Daniel McCarthy

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Culture

Big Pickleball is coming for your tennis court

A casual pastime appealing to limited-mobility seniors develops big ambitions

By Rosie Gray

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Russia

A declaration of Cold War

Seventy-six years after Churchill’s warning, Garry Kasparov castigates a complacent West

By James Kirchick

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Education

The outrage fever over Critical Race Theory

It’s a strange and unwitting collusion between left- and right-wing actors

By Jesse Singal

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Business

How Politico’s Playbook went from must-read to spam

Spotted: a Spectator journalist realizing it was probably always irrelevant navel-gazing

By Amber Duke

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Campaign 2022

The Republican march on Rome

Will the Republicans fritter their wins away as Hannibal did after Cannae?

By Roger Kimball

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Business

How I went from woke capitalist to victim of the woke mob

Levi’s was among the wokest of the woke. And I was in on it

By Jennifer Sey

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Science & Tech

At war with my pearly whites

It feels good to smile again, in the American way, blinding anyone who looks at me directly

By Matt Purple

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Culture

The office Christmas party is back with a vengeance

There is no comparison to any other work event

By Kara Kennedy

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Culture

How Formula One took America by storm

One of the world’s most popular sports has begun to get a foothold in the US

By David Marcus

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Politics

My travels in DeSantisland

I decided to spend some time in the Tampa suburb where he grew up

By Dave Seminara

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