FROM THE MAGAZINE

July 2021

Mar-a-Lago nights with Donald Trump

Since the election last November, Mar-a-Lago has taken on a new significance

By Nigel Farage

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Is hugging important to health?

A study by Carnegie Mellon University published in the journal Psychological Science in 2015 claimed so

By The Spectator

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Politics

Is J.D. Vance the right man for the right?

The author’s prospective Senate bid is interesting as more than just a test of Trumpism without Trump

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

Time to end the MAGA madness

The Republicans need to separate the MAGA from the message

By Dominic Green

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International

Why the West is best

Western civilization may not be perfect, we haven’t seen anything like it anywhere else in human history

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Politics

A party and a half

The current political disposition of the United States is at most a one-and-a-half party system

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

Is New York coming back?

P.J. Clarke’s is open again, the masks are off, the brews are cold, the regulars are back

By Sohrab Ahmari

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Middle East

What happens when your currency collapses?

The Lebanese are living through a terrible economic experiment

By Paul Wood

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Politics

How to fight with your family

We should aspire to a better quality of family argument

By Mary Kate Skehan

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Science & Tech

When do vaccine incentives become coercive?

The technocrats are nudging us into a dystopia

By Laura Dodsworth

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Politics

The DeSantis doctrine

DeSantis is perfectly positioned to become the next Republican leader — if Trump steps aside

By Amber Duke

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Science & Tech

The return of the UFOs

Roughly a third of American adults believe that some UFOs are alien spacecraft

By Andrew Stuttaford

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International

Will the right save Julian Assange?

If the United States succeeds in its case against Assange, it will set a chilling precedent

By Phoebe Greenwood

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Science & Tech

What the media gets wrong on gender reassignment

The media is guilty of gross negligence on gender reassignment reporting

By Jesse Singal

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Science & Tech

A matter of life and death

The space between a biopsy and the results

By Bridget Phetasy

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Spectator Editorial

America isn’t back. Global grandstanding is

Don’t expect any meaningful solutions to the world’s biggest problems

By Spectator Editorial

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Politics

Identity crisis: how the politics of race will wreck America

Advocating double standards for people on top and everyone else is a bad idea

By Charles Murray

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Politics

Can Mike Pence win in 2024?

‘Rush Limbaugh on decaf’ doesn’t seem right for this political moment

By Matt Purple

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