FROM THE MAGAZINE

February 2022

Spectator Editorial

Joe Biden in the metaverse

The Biden administration has taken up permanent residence in a metaverse of its own fantasies

By Spectator Editorial

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Late for the Post

Manhattan fêtes are rarely organized by people with newspaper deadlines

By Kelly Jane Torrance

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Politics

Can Matt Gaetz survive a real world scandal?

The Florida congressman promulgates govern-by-media tactics

By Jay Caruso

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Science & Tech

In the valley of the shadow of birth

Pregnancy revealed that I didn’t know anything.

By Bridget Phetasy

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Politics

Energy is the most important issue in the world

Gas prices are climbing, Russia is building pipelines, yet we’re focused instead on appeasing climate activists

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Science & Tech

The tragic kingdom of Anthony Fauci

Fauci believes himself to be the spokesperson for ‘science itself’

By Stephen L. Miller

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Policy

Biden’s big energy bust

His policy errors have sunk his presidency

By Rupert Darwall

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Internet

Twitter has taken the place of the ancient curse-tablet

The mentality of the ancient curse-tablet lives on

By Peter Jones

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Politics

New Rome, new home

I wonder whether the moment hasn’t come to begin thinking of Washington the way the later emperors thought of Rome

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

Does the Orange Man have the juice?

Donald Trump is not just a problem for Republicans. He’s a problem for the Republic

By Charles Lipson

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Internet

Blackpill: inside the incel death cult

An online in-joke becomes real-world terrorism

By Ben Sixsmith

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China

How China meddles in American academia

Rather than facing up to the threat China poses on American college campuses, the White House seems to want us to get along happily with our friends across the Taiwan Strait

By Peter W. Wood

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Europe

The other Camus

The gay past of the alt-right’s French guru

By James Kirchick

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Culture

The moment I fell in love with music

Music is one of the hardest things to write about

By Bill Wyman

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Politics

The multinational that ate Virginia

For many activists, Glenn Youngkin is the face of a GOP that can win — with or without Trump

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

San Francisco is sick

How the Golden State can grow up and fix its crisis of disorder

By Michael Shellenberger

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Culture

Tweed is of the essence

A tweed confers, and expresses, the manly freedom of paying no mind to one’s appearance

By Christopher Caldwell

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Religion

Downloading God in the App Store

Is the concept of manna from Heaven really so different than ordering from Uber Eats or Postmates?

By Daniella Greenbaum Davis

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Education

Harvard’s diversity disgrace

Why should Asians take one for the team?

By Kenny Xu

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A tale of three cities

Like New York, London feels on the verge of anarchy already, only much livelier

By Dominic Green

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