FROM THE MAGAZINE

March 2024

Spectator Editorial

How foreign policy will impact the 2024 election

Biden’s decision-making is making America weaker on the world stage. But would a second Trump term be all that much better?

By Spectator Editorial

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Diary

What makes a Christian?

With a mixture of trepidation and exhilarated curiosity, I await our future

By Richard Dawkins

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Politics

Searching for the energy at the New Hampshire primary

Biden was invisible, Trump inevitable, nothing much left to say

By Freddy Gray

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Politics

2024 and the invasion at the southern border

The destruction of the country for the sake of temporary partisan advantage seems a high price to pay

By Roger Kimball

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Religion

‘Maybe I have the healing I need’: speaking to Father Paul Wierichs

The former FBI chaplain ministered to the dead and dying on 9/11. Terminal cancer means his time is coming, too

By Christopher Bedford

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Internet

Why is Generation Z so undersexed?

The answer could lie in the decline of mystique

By Ani Wilcenski

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Internet

How the tradwife killed the girlboss age

That this particular little niche engenders such blowback says a lot — not about the influencers, but about us

By Inez Stepman

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Health

The curious case of Botox babies

One of the most entrenched rules in life is that the grass is always greener on the other side. It seems doubly true for women

By Josie Cox

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Policy

The LaPierre legacy

The man who built the National Rifle Association into a juggernaut leaves it in disarray

By Stephen Gutowski

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Media

Why the luxury life feels alien

When I emerged onto Twitter in 2015, I felt like I was driving a jalopy on a freeway filled with Teslas

By Bridget Phetasy

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Science & Tech

How Covid amnesia spread through the right and left

Four years into ‘two weeks to stop the spread,’ the main characters of the pandemic have taken to revisionism

By Billy McMorris

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Law

The Supreme Court takes on the administrative state

Loper Bright v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce both involve bizarre fishing rules

By Ilya Shapiro

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Education

What’s wrong with populism?

In Greek, dêmagôgos was a neutral term meaning ‘leader of the people.’ But it could be used to describe a rabble rouser

By Peter Jones

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Politics

What will the new Trump foreign policy look like?

The former president came into office as an agent of chaos, but his foreign policy ended up relatively stable. Will that change in a second term?

By Ben Domenech

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Politics

Donald Trump and the clash of realities

Reality itself is contested today in a way that goes beyond anything in earlier US history

By Daniel McCarthy

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International

How low birth rates could threaten our civilization

For Italians — and for everyone else — there is a warning from history

By Paul Wood

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Business

The magic of making maple syrup

‘The reason maple syrup tastes so good is because there’s love in every jar’

By Teresa Mull

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