FROM THE MAGAZINE

March 2023

Spectator Editorial

Why aren’t we more focused on cleaning up the pandemic mess?

The residual effects of lockdowns and school closures have proved to be serious and sticky

By Spectator Editorial

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My verdict on the Oscars line-up

Today’s Oscar-nominated films are generally bleak, confusing and interminable

By Joan Collins

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Science & Tech

Social-justice shrinks: how identity politics infected therapy

The social-justice therapist reduces clients to avatars of gender, race and ethnicity

By Sally Satel

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Culture

Business schools are dating apps for the super-rich

‘What does MBA really stand for?’

By Josie Cox

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Politics

Anita Dunn and Bob Bauer: meet Biden’s clean-up couple

No pair has benefited more from equal representation in cronyism

By Billy McMorris

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Law

Inside the legal fight for a race-neutral America

The movement that took on Roe v. Wade is now targeting racial preferences

By Amber Duke

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Politics

How Pat Buchanan redefined the twenty-first century

What a pity that his warnings were not heeded twenty-five years earlier

By Daniel McCarthy

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Culture

What’s in a name?

Yes, that one in the byline is my own — and I couldn’t abandon it if I tried

By Matt Purple

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International

Drinking with soldiers in Ukraine

I have two hours to kill before my train to Lviv, so I do what anyone would do

By Zack Christenson

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International

Germany’s folly: Berlin has miscalculated on Russia and China

They will be kowtowing to Beijing for the foreseeable future

By Andrew Stuttaford

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Politics

The unraveling of Joe Biden: a retrospective

In the end there were just too many trunks full of classified documents

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

The trouble with ‘white privilege’

Debates about racism are framed largely through whiteness and white privilege

By Kenan Malik

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Politics

America has too many state secrets

The national security state has far more secrets than it can reasonably be expected to protect

By Eli Lake

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Culture

Seed catalogs and their rejuvenating power

The colorful catalogs produce volumes of sun-drenched joy for the Vitamin D-deprived

By Teresa Mull

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The subscriber wars: a dispatch from the trenches

Capitalism always wins — and sometimes I’m the loser

By Bridget Phetasy

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Politics

Can anyone save Philadelphia?

In the City of Brotherly Love, voters are losing patience with civic dysfunction

By Nick Russo

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Science & Tech

The new war on weight

Thin is in — and new drugs promise a medical revolution

By Kara Kennedy

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Business

The new age of the con man

In 2023, the hustlers are everywhere

By Oliver Bateman

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