October 2019 Issue

FROM THE MAGAZINE

October 2019

‘Our contributors are chosen for originality and sense of style, not political affiliation. It’s not The Spectator’s job to tell people how to think: we want to entertain and challenge readers.’

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Daddy issues: the fatherhood revolution has failed

It would be hard to argue that today’s teenagers have emerged happier than the generation raised by distant dads

By Cosmo Landesman

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High Life

The differences between British and American readers

The New York Times is the media institution that plays the most destructive role in American life

By Taki

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Humor

The best comedy is the type that makes white people feel terrible about themselves

Many sensitive souls find the sound of merriment jarring

By Godfrey Elfwick

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Place

Hog wild in Indiantown

Armed with a lever-action rifle, some elephant-gun slugs and a pack of six dogs, we set out into the brush

By Benjamin Riley

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Faith

Puritanism is back…and welcome to it

Martyrdom has become ‘inclusive’

By P.J. O’Rourke

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I am a part of Batavia, New York

My friend Henry W. Clune used to say that all he ever really wanted was to appear considerable in the eyes of his hometown

By Bill Kauffman

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Media

Good morning, America

We dare to believe that we offer something that is lacking in journalism on both sides of the Atlantic

By Spectator Editorial

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The mysterious ways of the French

Everything in this country is as strange to me today as it was five years ago

By Jeremy Clarke

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A vacation in Greenland

For a country where people cling to the edges of a vast land mass, local identity seems important

By Robert Chote

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