FROM THE MAGAZINE

July 2023

Spectator Editorial

How will the decline of cable news affect politics?

2024 is already shaping up to feel very different from previous, TV-news-dominated campaigns

By Spectator Editorial

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Diary

Reminders of the Cold War in Vienna and Budapest

Apparently an acquaintance has dubbed me the ‘Kremlinologist of the right’

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Media

Can the 2024 election save cable news?

The two networks that a few decades ago changed the way the world consumes news are each facing oncoming storms

By Aidan McLaughlin

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Media

Tucker Carlson can live without Fox News. Can they live without him?

‘You can tell when someone’s lying to you or when someone’s shading the truth or trying to spin you’

By Chadwick Moore

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Europe

How the Ukraine war remade our world

Victory against Russia will always be just around the corner

By Daniel McCarthy

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Culture

Je suis Karen

In a country spinning out of control, we need Karens more than ever

By Kara Kennedy

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Politics

Markwayne Mullin: the Senate’s stoic brawler

‘If you do manage to get Mullin talking, he has a lot to say’

By Ben Domenech

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Business

Why conservative boycotts should terrify corporations

The Bud Light row has awoken a new kind of consumer activism on the right

By Amber Duke

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Business

Maine’s lobstermen are a dying breed

Excessive regulation is killing an age-old industry

By Teresa Mull

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Family

You can never escape the suburbs

How I learned to stop worrying and love the ’burbs

By Bridget Phetasy

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Politics

What happened to QAnon?

Still waiting for the storm

By Ben Sixsmith

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Europe

What did the Habsburgs ever do for us?

Eduard Habsburg thinks the world has a lot to learn from his imperial family

By Will Collins

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Education

In praise of encyclopedias

Two new books take on the amorphous subject of knowledge

By Peter W. Wood

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Health

Why today’s teenagers are so unhappy

Dr. Jean Twenge explains why we are right to worry about Gen Z

By Mary Wakefield

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Campaign 2024

The known unknowns of 2024

‘Trump can’t win,’ say his rivals. What makes them so sure?

By Roger Kimball

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Europe

The Polish miracle

How the Eastern European country grew powerful and prosperous

By John Pietro

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Education

How the ancients handled old age

Cicero’s dialogue on old age recommended remaining active both physically and mentally and regarding death as something to be welcomed

By Peter Jones

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Education

Why civics test scores are falling in American schools

For the next generation, history isn’t being rewritten. It’s being intentionally obscured

By Bethany Mandel

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