FROM THE MAGAZINE

November 2023

Spectator Editorial

DC under the influence

There are two sets of rules in Washington, one for the powerful and one for the rest of us

By Spectator Editorial

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Diary

After the Maui fires

When I went to West Maui four days after the fire, many people told me, ‘You’re the first person who has anything to do with the government who has shown up’

By Tulsi Gabbard

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Politics

The changing season brings a change in politics

What we’ve been told about Trump and Biden, about the other candidates for the Republican nomination and other Democratic aspirants, has mutated

By Roger Kimball

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Family

The case against the Thanksgiving dinner fight

Break bread, not relationships

By Mary Katherine Ham

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Science & Tech

Meet Meredith Angwin, the grandmother changing the energy industry

The self-published author saw what almost no one else did: the coming downfall of the American electrical system

By Emmet Penney

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Politics

The new wave of woman hate

Both sides have been co-opted by extremists who also happen to be misogynists

By Bridget Phetasy

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Media

The rise of the underground free speech groups

Independent thought makes a comeback in progressive cities

By Melanie Notkin

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Politics

The future looks Republican

The winner Democrats picked in 2020 has turned them into long-range losers

By Daniel McCarthy

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Europe

‘We must defend our territory’: on the frontline of Europe’s migrant woes

Paul Wood reports from Lampedusa, Africa’s gateway to Italy

By Paul Wood

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Policy

Migrant mania comes to sanctuary cities

The border crisis is now taking over New York and Chicago. Will that change anything?

By Ben Domenech

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Middle East

America’s Hamas double failure

Don’t expect the Biden administration to acknowledge its errors, any more than it did after the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Charles Lipson

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Economics

Justin Trudeau is tanking Canada’s economy

You can only imagine — and recoil in horror at — the potential damage the Canadian prime minister’s economic illiteracy will unleash

By Stephen R. Soukup

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Education

Why the ancients would have been baffled by obesity

A degree of corpulence was the sign of a rich, healthy and prosperous man. But obesity turned one into a figure of fun or ignominy

By Peter Jones

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Politics

Reports of the death of freedom have been greatly exaggerated

Barflies prove the irrelevance of most DC squabbles

By Matthew Walther

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Science & Tech

Why ‘dirty’ coal is vital to a ‘clean’ green future

‘Any time you have energy, you have to dig something out of the ground’

By Teresa Mull

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Business

The secret lives of New York’s doormen

They know your secrets — for good or ill

By Josie Cox

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Policy

Americans are watching legal weed’s promise go up in smoke

More than a decade after Colorado became the first state to legalize marijuana in 2012, it is apparent that legalization has mostly failed based on the very criteria put forth by its champions

By Luke Niforatos

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