june 2020

FROM THE MAGAZINE

June 2020

‘We need a careful but determined uncoupling from China’s vast economy. When the COVID-19 crisis passes, America must deploy an industrial policy to strike a better balance between globalization and the national interest.’

Education

Professing virtues

Not since the late 19th century in Germany have the Herr Professor Doktors been held in such high esteem

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Politics

Neocons come home to roost

Reagan was tarred as an extremist in much the same terms as Trump. Yet the neocons supported him

By Daniel McCarthy

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Viral contagion

The uncontainable spread of fake coronavirus news

By Damian Thompson

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Last of the playboy adventurers: remembering Peter Beard

Leaving Africa removed the authentic core that justified the hedonism of the rest of his life

By Alexander Fiske-Harrison

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Malevolent depravity: the rise of PrEP

A successful anti-Aids drug is wreaking havoc

By Chadwick Moore

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Bannon’s one agenda in the White House was China

Bannon was pushed out by Jared Kushner, because Kushner wanted to do business with China and Saudi

By Taki

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Our exile in London

The rich are in their country cottages tweeting about social distancing and playing videos of cats playing violins

By Aidan Hartley

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How ‘odd’ became normal

Odd is Scandinavian in origin, Viking if you like

By Dot Wordsworth

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Is this the Boog?

First the government makes you wear a mask to go to the supermarket. Next they’ll be after your guns

By Philip Delves Broughton

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China

Wuhdunnit? We have only suspicions, not proof

The idea that the virus is man-made is not just a crazy theory that Trump got from one of his golf buddies

By Paul Wood

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Politics

We need a Pompeo Plan to tame the dragon

The demagogues’ answer is to repatriate American production overnight. But this is impossible

By Dominic Green

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China

Putin needs Xi more than China needs Russia

A special relationship

By Owen Matthews

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Let’s blame China

Much of the western media is behaving like a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist party

By Roger Kimball

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China

Xi’s useful idiots against free speech

Free-thinking people everywhere should condemn those among us who facilitate China’s lies

By Toby Young

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Internet

Rebuilding #MeToo

Just because politics took the movement and made it toxic, doesn’t mean we can’t take it back

By Bridget Phetasy

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Spectator Editorial

A new balance

America must deploy an industrial policy to strike a better balance between globalization and the national interest

By Spectator Editorial

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