FROM THE MAGAZINE

January 2021

Middle East

Biden’s Saudi problem

Can MbS do whatever he wants?

By Paul Wood

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International

Biden, Blinken and the Blob

The challenges facing the incoming president may demand more than a return to normalcy

By Andrew Bacevich

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The Dorothy option

A saint for our times

By Mary Kate Skehan

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International

Duterte Harry

The president of the Philippines makes Donald Trump look like Betty Crocker

By Francis Pike

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Pound rocks

Ezra Pound was a crank who would have been a perfect fit for the internet age

By James Harris

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I’ve been cambridged

I was not ready for lockdown. We are slowly going mad

By Dominic Green

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International

No to policing the world

Biden’s foreign policy is rooted in the mythology of the Cold War

By Matt Purple

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Politics

America’s Yeltsin moment

Trump was the mildest of corrections to the failures of post-Cold War liberalism

By Daniel McCarthy

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The thrill of fear

Human beings love being scared witless

By Mark Mason

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Europe

A honeymoon in Berlin

Younger Berliners seem to want their lives to look as austere as possible

By Lara Prendergast

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Spectator Editorial

Buckle up for Biden and the Blob

Under Biden, expect intoxicated self-righteousness to make a comeback

By Spectator Editorial

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Politics

Are we back in the Obama White House?

Biden, on or past the threshold of senility, is the embodiment of that pajama-boy spirit of fragile futility

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

The family gap

Beneath the mask of American discontent

By Mary Eberstadt

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Internet

End game: the blurring line between fantasy sports and the real thing

Many new-age fans don’t follow teams in the traditional way; they follow the players themselves

By Tim Wigmore

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Love island

Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis reviewed

By Philip Marsden

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Politics

Elvis and Nixon, the odd couple

The day the president met the King

By Christopher Sandford

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Politics

The never-ending smugness of the NeverTrumpers

They knew they were right even when they were wrong

By Douglas Murray

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Politics

Am I a cuck?

I’m falling out with my friend over the election fraud nonsense

By Toby Young

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