FROM THE MAGAZINE

January 2023

Spectator Editorial

After the cryptocrash

The cacophonous collapse of FTX is the soundtrack of one economic era giving way to another

By Spectator Editorial

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How will a GOP Congress stop a repeat of the Hunter Biden scandal?

Life as the Laptop-from-Hellraiser

By Emma-Jo Morris

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Business

How Big Philanthropy became Big Grift

Effective Altruism is ultimately rooted in saviorism

By Leighton Woodhouse

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Business

The great anti-ESG backlash

Inside the campaign to get politics out of investing

By Oliver Wiseman

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Education

How parents are learning to fight for their children’s education

The parental rights movement isn’t going away — and they’re getting better at organizing

By Amber Duke

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Politics

The liberal-conservative tug of war for the GOP

The party faces a choice between its nationalist and liberal wings

By Daniel McCarthy

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Culture

A junkie’s pride

I first quit a substance at the tender age of nineteen, when heroin brought me to my knees

By Bridget Phetasy

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Policy

Why Eric Adams has failed to control crime

The New York mayor has been in office a year. A sense of unease still pervades the five boroughs

By Charles Fain Lehman

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Politics

Why globalism is the enemy of freedom

Like The Wizard of Oz, it is all show and no substance

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

Randi Weingarten isn’t going anywhere

I’m pretty sure that nobody I observed on November 7 was ready to give up fighting. Not Randi Weingarten, of course

By John R. MacArthur

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Politics

Will Republicans learn from the midterms?

Trump promised they’d get tired of winning, but at this point they’re tired of losing

By Ben Domenech

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Science & Tech

The Greeks’ curiosity extended far beyond the cerebral

What they would have given to be alive today!

By Peter Jones

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Culture

An ode to smoking

2022, I decided, would be my year of the cigarette

By Kara Kennedy

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Culture

Dry January is cruel

The season for porters, stouts, red ales, Bailey’s, eggnog and brandy is the bleak midwinter

By Matt Purple

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Culture

Speaking truth to antisemitism

Jews are a unique group. We have been chased around for millennia

By Jesse Singal

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Culture

The Lone Star State’s new poker boom

The Texas formula is getting ready to go nationwide

By Neal Pollack

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Politics

Why Don should make way for Ron

The GOP can still make 2024 their year

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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International

Edward Luttwak, the uncontained strategist

He is a product — and the embodiment — of twentieth-century conflict

By David Patrikarakos

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