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FROM THE MAGAZINE

July 2020

‘What’s really happening in America is a crisis of authority, from the White House down to your local police precinct. This in turn derives from a crisis in America’s identity — and that’s not about race or racism. It is a crisis in national confidence.’

Slip tease

Slipper selfies reveal our work-from-home style

By Laura Freeman

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The modern world of advertising

They prey on our unconscious

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Internet

Godfrey’s drag queen story time

Do it for the children

By Godfrey Elfwick

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What does it mean to go ‘stir crazy’?

Only now I discover my assumptions about that phrase were wrong

By Dot Wordsworth

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Politics

Prodigal son-in-law

Who is the real Jared Kushner?

By Paul Wood

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Internet

What we need is social media distancing

Social media brings out the worst in us because the algorithm rewards us for being tribal, divisive and emotional

By Bridget Phetasy

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Politics

The Kushner conundrum

Is he a scapegoat or a saboteur?

By Amber Duke

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Internet

Just-one-knee syndrome

They took a knee, as it were, when what they should have done was throw themselves to the ground

By Toby Young

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Politics

Jared and the Jews

Kushner is a Jewish American Hofjude, a privileged fixer with connections

By Dominic Green

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Politics

End of empire

The era of US dominion has now passed

By Andrew Bacevich

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Politics

Is this the end of history?

George Floyd was a pretext, not a cause. The cause was destruction of our civilization

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

Bright lights, abandoned city

Americans are no longer moving to their shining cultural capital

By Chadwick Moore

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Spectator Editorial

No justice, no peace

What’s really happening in America is a crisis of authority, from the White House down to your local police precinct

By Spectator Editorial

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Politics

The rioters and the rentiers

Post-industrial cities aren’t working

By Michael Lind

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Politics

The new inequality

We’re experiencing an unhealthy overcorrection in racial politics

By Douglas Murray

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Politics

Self-righteous vandals

The attempt to prettify history is ugly

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

Marching against racism is too easy

What we need is practical change

By Lionel Shriver

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Defund colleges, not cops

Police are not the root of our problems. Academia is

By Peter W. Wood

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