FROM THE MAGAZINE

November 2021

Spectator Editorial

The sleepwalkers

The Biden presidency has donned Jimmy Carter’s cardigan of shame in only nine months

By Spectator Editorial

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Brian Kilmeade on Fox News at 25

Everyone’s more engaged. That’s going to help in the long run

By Brian Kilmeade

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Politics

What’s on Biden’s mind?

The President’s health is a matter of national interest

By Harry Shukman

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Politics

Welcome to the age of entropy

Our direction is not toward liberalism, but away from order of any kind

By Daniel McCarthy

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Economics

The numbers game

The slower the workforce grows, the faster wages will rise

By C.A.E. Goodhart

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Politics

America needs a 12-step program

As I hit my eighth sober birthday, I’m reflecting on exactly how much getting sober played a part in where I am today

By Bridget Phetasy

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Economics

The return of inflation

Inflation seldom explodes overnight: it builds up gradually

By Kenneth Rogoff

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Europe

As COP26 looms, Glasgow is facing a waste crisis

The Scottish National party is ruining Glasgow

By Stephen Daisley

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Politics

Feminism has failed us

Has demonstrating our alleged progress replaced progress itself?

By Daniella Greenbaum Davis

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Politics

Here come the Nineties

The Nineties were the first decade of the 21st century

By Matt Purple

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Education

Why trigger warnings don’t work

They only reached popular consciousness in the 2010s, when feminist blogs used them ahead of content about sexual violence

By Chadwick Moore

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Middle East

Goodbye, Lebanon

Farewell to a failed state

By Paul Wood

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Business

Whipping up a crisis

The wall between journalism and activism is badly corroded

By Jesse Singal

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China

Evergrande illusions

Expect more Evergrandes from China’s command economy

By Allison Schrager

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Science & Tech

Social media is nothing like heroin

My addiction turned out to be an entirely correctable habit

By Karol Markowicz

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Business

Sign of the Times

When the media’s credibility collapsed, the New York Times led the way

By Batya Ungar-Sargon

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Science & Tech

How we can keep innovating

The prophets of stagnation are wrong

By Michael Bhaskar

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Europe

Scotland by sleeper

Wanting to avoid the airport, I took a late-evening, six-and-a-half-hour train from Edinburgh to Bristol

By Benjamin Riley

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Education

The problem with Ovid

Ovid clearly was not an enlightened modern

By Roger Kimball

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