FROM THE MAGAZINE

May 2022

Spectator Editorial

In search of a Biden doctrine

His self-importance and lack of strategic thinking are not a recipe for a safer world

By Spectator Editorial

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Leaving Kyiv

The Mariupol theater bombing was a mere preamble to what the world saw

By Vladislav Davidzon

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International

Joe Biden’s new world disorder

His weakness has led to the fracturing of the American-led global system

By Mary Kissel

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Russia

Why Putin won’t save NATO

The West’s best hope is to rediscover a self-affirming anti-imperialism on the nationalist right

By Daniel McCarthy

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Russia

Springtime for Cold War nostalgics

Weariness with, and wariness of, the Cold War was very real and ought to give us pause

By Matt Purple

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China

What Ukraine means for Asia

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has scrambled Asia’s geopolitics

By Michael Auslin

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International

How to avoid World War Three

History can help presidents think about how to confront new challenges

By Tevi Troy

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Religion

Of Mahler and mandates

Why is the Kennedy Center discriminating against a Catholic trumpet player?

By Billy McMorris

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Culture

I am woman. Watch me push

In an effort to make everything inclusive, we are erasing women

By Bridget Phetasy

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Education

Children’s lives depend on parents’ rights

Trans ideologues want to hide your child’s problems from you

By Madeleine Kearns

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Education

Does Putin pass Aristotle’s tyrant test?

Seeing the turannos as a deviant type of king, Aristotle tested the distinction under four headings

By Peter Jones

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Business

Cheugy, Gu and you

Luxury retail is as cheugy as any other kind

By Christopher Caldwell

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Education

Stop reading

Literacy is overrated

By Peter W. Wood

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Culture

Dan Savage has fallen out of love with the left

Savage is no cookie-cutter lefty, for all his haranguing in favour of baroque sexual lifestyles

By Zoe Strimpel

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Culture

Joining the SoulCycle cult

Amid all of life’s mundanity, who doesn’t want to be an athlete?

By Josie Cox

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Politics

Revenge of the populists

How conservatism’s anti-elitists defeated the establishment

By Matthew Continetti

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Internet

Why we need robust free speech laws

Recent clampdowns in Russia and China show just how foolish the prevailing US mood is

By Jesse Singal

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Culture

Ain’t that good news

Rather than preparing to live out the rest of this century in misery, I’m now giddily optimistic

By Daniella Greenbaum Davis

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Economics

How the boomers robbed the young of all hope

Younger generations inherit a world in which the middle ranks are struggling almost everywhere

By Joel Kotkin

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