FROM THE MAGAZINE

June 2023

Spectator Editorial

The campaign against the Supreme Court’s legitimacy

Our government institutions are in crisis — which is why the Supreme Court is so important

By Spectator Editorial

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Diary

Confessions of a media chronicler

‘The best room I was in the whole week was probably the first car of Amtrak’

By Ben Smith

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Campaign 2024

Inside RFK Jr.’s kooky White House quest

An older generation of Kennedys sold hope. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is offering something weirder

By Rosie Gray

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Politics

Blink and you’ll miss this libertarian moment

The average American is hardly woke. But it’s difficult to cast your eye across the country and see a groundswell for individual liberty either

By Matt Purple

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International

How to stop the flow of guns south

Gunrunning has shot to the top of the US-Mexico agenda

By Ioan Grillo

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Politics

Will DeSantis lose if he runs to the right of Trump?

An anti-Democrat, somewhat anti-Republican and not consistently conservative candidate may be exactly what GOP voters want

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

Why won’t conservatives ask Trump tough questions?

If Trump had an ounce of self-awareness, he would not run

By Ann Coulter

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Science & Tech

The legal challenge to assisted suicide

There is nothing to stop an assisted suicide regime once it has been put into place

By Billy McMorris

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Cars

Are electric vehicles really the future?

When it comes to cars, tomorrow can take its good old time in charging ahead

By Teresa Mull

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Media

They wanted to break the internet. It broke them

BuzzFeed, Paper and the click crash of 2023

By Ben Domenech

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Politics

Is America a republic in name only?

We are living posthumous lives amid the shells of the institutions that once animated our political life

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

Can the Heritage Foundation unite the right?

Kevin Roberts wants to return his think tank to the heart of the conservative conversation

By Amber Duke

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Education

Would Aristotle approve of the Guardian’s reparations?

Aristotle argued that justice, which was good, depended on a form of equality

By Peter Jones

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Business

Welcome to the crypto winter

Web3’s true believers are as confident as ever

By Omar L. Gallaga

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Family

Moving house sucks

It’s unsettling to dismantle your life and peek into every nook and cranny after decades of gathering stuff

By Bridget Phetasy

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Books

The afterlife of Christopher Hitchens

Faced with a growing pile of Hitchenalia, the obvious question is ‘why?’

By Oliver Wiseman

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Internet

Has the influencer bubble burst?

The age of the influencer appears to be swiftly coming to an end

By Kara Kennedy

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Middle East

The rise of the golf rebels

LIV Golf keeps upping the stakes in its revolt against the game’s establishment

By Kevin Cook

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