FROM THE MAGAZINE

June 2022

Spectator Editorial

Embrace the gerontocracy

Our federal policy has been shaped by the elderly and for the elderly

By Spectator Editorial

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Good riddance, Harriet Miers

Here’s one reaction nobody’s having to the Alito leak: ‘If only Harriet Miers were on the Court!’

By Ann Coulter

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Politics

The Democrats’ succession woes

Why is their presidential bench so shallow?

By Billy McMorris

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Politics

Why progressive politics is like air travel

Today’s progressives are allergic to notions of autonomy and empowerment

By Batya Ungar-Sargon

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Politics

Run again, Hillary!

She can truly unite America — against her

By Chadwick Moore

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Culture

California dreaming

If fame determines status in Los Angeles, power is the social currency in Washington

By James Kirchick

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International

Can the West fix itself?

The war in Ukraine may be just the first test of the western alliance

By Douglas Murray

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Business

Woke is truly going broke

Netflix is just the latest casualty

By Roger Kimball

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China

The Harvard connection

Was a Fauci-endorsed Chinese donation part of the lab-leak cover up?

By Ashley Rindsberg

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Culture

Puppy privilege

Was not even my dog immune from the self-righteous?

By Teresa Mull

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Religion

Martyrs win the culture wars

The left succeeds through the blood of sacrifice

By Daniel McCarthy

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Science & Tech

Who needs therapy?

Not everyone appreciates being told to look inward

By Jesse Singal

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COVID

Canceled for Covid

The inability to engage with contrarian opinions is a stain on our response to the pandemic

By Karol Markowicz

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Science & Tech

Why tech billionaires love testosterone

‘T’ and ‘bromeopathy’ won’t create good men

By Melissa Chen

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Politics

Is Bob Woodward overrated?

Fifty years on, the hero of Watergate has become little more than a stenographer

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Culture

We are failing to curate the present

If we exist everywhere online, do we exist anywhere at all?

By Eric Hanson

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International

The age of American unexceptionalism

It’s hard to be exceptional when your causes are so pathetically underwhelming

By Daniella Greenbaum Davis

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Economics

The moral cost of inflation

Inflation has hobbled nations for generations

By Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis and Elizabeth Ames

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Education

What makes a ‘just’ war?

By acting justly, Cicero concluded, ‘our government could be called more accurately a protectorate of the world rather than an empire’

By Peter Jones

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