FROM THE MAGAZINE

February 2024

Spectator Editorial

The 2024 campaign cage fight

Campaigns are no longer a game of wooing voters with public debates, rallies and door knocking

By Spectator Editorial

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Diary

Newlywed dining around the world

Our first year of marriage has involved a lot of hosting

By Madeleine Kearns

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Politics

The course of the American empire

Instead of frank acknowledgment and robust action, Biden and his minders have retreated into Stalinist Newspeak

By Roger Kimball

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Media

Is Courier Newsroom really fighting fake news?

Journalists who have worked at Tara McGowan’s news outlet say the ideals it publicly professes are a far cry from reality

By Aidan McLaughlin

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Health

America is too fat for another civil war

It’s not right versus left: it’s Dunkin’ versus Krispy Kreme, battling for the soul of the country

By Bridget Phetasy

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Campaign 2024

The fall of Nikki Haley’s comet

How the Republican donor class blew another election

By Ben Domenech

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Politics

How to jail a president

Donald Trump could face prison time this year. What would that look like?

By Neal Pollack

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Policy

How California’s new trucking regulations threaten standards of living

The Golden State’s mandates look to be yet another case of progressive California dreaming

By Henry Olsen

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Politics

The populism of Machiavelli and Jefferson

In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures

By Daniel McCarthy

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Campaign 2024

Will Covid voting rules stay in place in 2024?

As campaigns hit their stride, state voting regulations loom large, particularly in the battleground states

By Billy McMorris

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Internet

Against LOLflation

Online language is evolving to leave a new generation of older users behind

By Jesse Singal

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Campaign 2024

Inside the 2024 campaign consultant calamity

The primary season is just getting started but the consultant backbiting has already begun

By Christopher Bedford

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Law

How Ray Tierney brought law and order back to Suffolk County

The DA asks the questions others seem to ignore

By Amber Duke

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Education

Inside Oberlin College’s failed auto-da-fé

When it comes to women’s sports, former lacrosse coach Kim Russell is firmly in the camp of objective science

By Elaine Mallon

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Campaign 2024

How will the 2024 election impact US-China relations?

Relations between the two countries have been hot and cold for years

By Daniel DePetris

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Education

Ethics Man and Woman should win the game of politics

For Cicero, the debate was not so much about power as about the ethics of those seeking it

By Peter Jones

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