May 2021 Spectator Cover

FROM THE MAGAZINE

May 2021

Politics

Racism has become a kind of theory of everything

Biden’s presidency has done nothing to abate racial paranoia. On the contrary, it’s getting more feverish

By Tom Slater

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Education

The truth about beauty

Beauty speaks with such great immediacy because it touches something deep within us

By Roger Kimball

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Economics

How the right fell out of love with markets

Many of capitalism’s most vocal critics are now found on the American right

By Samuel Gregg

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Religion

How I became Hispanic

Learning to love my inner Latino

By Leon Hadar

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Russia

Putin and Biden need one another

The American and Russian presidents have been taking potshots at each other for at least a decade

By Owen Matthews

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Europe

Elena Ferrante’s Italian job

Ferrante was the Flaubert of the Pantsuit Nation, a harbinger of Hillary’s page-turning presidency

By Dominic Green

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Religion

Made of honor: the complexities of a COVID wedding

Attention-shy couples can elope guilt-free, while bridezillas get to be bossier than ever

By Mary Kate Skehan

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I’m leaving America with a lack of faith in its media

I’m leaving the big show, canceling my print subscriptions, packing up my DC apartment and chucking away all those unread back issues of the Atlantic

By Josh Glancy

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Politics

Who fears a society that hates itself?

Masochists of the West, unite!

By Lionel Shriver

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China

How China is stoking America’s racial tensions

A government that would never dream of allowing free elections in its own country mocks America’s democratic process

By Ian Williams

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Spectator Editorial

Grand Old Problem

The American right is ideologically confused

By Spectator Editorial

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Religion

Toxic trads

Nobody is saved by a ‘worldview’

By Grayson Quay

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Europe

France wakes up to Woke

Paris is a target-rich environment for excitable racial separatists and merchants of grievance

By Jonathan Miller

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Politics

The notorious MTG

Is Marjorie Taylor Greene really that bad?

By Amber Duke

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Business

Boycott corporate America!

It’s conservatives versus woke capitalism

By Matt Purple

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Politics

The strange death of the Democrats

The party will decline because it has a demographic problem

By Daniel McCarthy

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