FROM THE MAGAZINE

January 2022

Spectator Editorial

Get set for the Great Reset

What our elites seek is coercion by apocalypse, transforming our free society as we know it

By Spectator Editorial

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No slouch on the couch

Fox is very transparent about what’s hard news, which are opinion shows and which are hybrid shows

By Rachel Campos-Duffy

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Economics

Welcome to the end of democracy

A rising tide of money and administrative power defines the rising autocracy

By Joel Kotkin

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COVID

It’s the Dawn of Omicron

I’m more afraid of how governments will weaponize a new variant than of the Omicron variant itself

By Bridget Phetasy

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China

The China reckoning

The China ‘struggle’ that Xi lays before the world will define the next generation of American foreign and security policy

By Michael R. Auslin

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Culture

Plato and the attempt to ‘decolonize’ Shakespeare

The Globe Theatre in London has launched a project to do just that

By Peter Jones

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Business

The dive is alive

When our restaurant scene is rebuilt, perhaps there will be room once again for the humble dive

By Matt Purple

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Culture

Covid and the rise of the Zoom class

The pandemic has both revealed and accelerated class differences that have been decades in the making

By Mary Harrington

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Culture

How the 1960s institutionalized us

The long march of the cultural revolution has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams

By Roger Kimball

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International

The next chapter in American foreign policy

Our choices are constrained by the needs of our internal order

By Daniel McCarthy

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Education

The Tudor roots of wokecraft

The Reformation was a top-down affair, an agenda imposed by a cultural and political elite

By Grayson Quay

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Culture

Eighty years after Wannsee

Jews should see existential threats for what they are

By Daniella Greenbaum Davis

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Politics

Back in the USA

If we are ‘back’ to anything, it is the blundering of the George W. Bush administration on the sands of Iraq and the levees of Louisiana

By Christopher Caldwell

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International

Will Armen Sarkissian save Armenia?

More than a year after war broke out, the country is in need of steady leadership

By Kapil Komireddi

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Education

Are New England’s stone heaps Native Americans’ sacred ruins?

Native Americans are being exploited by self-interested settler-colonists — yet again

By Timothy H. Ives

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Business

Bring back New York

The best city in the world is in decline and its denizens don’t seem to notice

By Karol Markowicz

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