FROM THE MAGAZINE

October 2020

The Spectator would like to make one appeal in this tumultuous year: for America to keep faith in democracy.’

Why must we ‘live with’ coronavirus?

Living with is a phrasal verb first applied, in the 17th century, to spouses

By Dot Wordsworth

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Pimp’s paradise

Nevada’s legal brothels are a disaster for women

By Julie Bindel

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Politics

Bad Kshama: meet Seattle’s worst socialist

Kshama Sawant’s attitude to Amazon has come to reach the level of a personal hatred rarely seen outside marriage

By Christopher Sandford

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Politics

The Democratic art of magical thinking

It is not surprising that Democrats prefer pleasing fantasy to sobering reality

By Roger Kimball

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Politics

The hostages’ president

For all his faults, Trump cares about captive Americans

By Paul Wood

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Europe

Britain clambers aboard the BLM bandwagon

The public does not buy into the notion that there is ‘structural’ racism in the UK. There isn’t

By Rod Liddle

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Politics

Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics

The country is undergoing a Great Unraveling

By Damian Thompson

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Spectator Editorial

The danger this time

The promise to live and let live rather than treat every political battle as all-out war to the death is breaking down

By Spectator Editorial

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How many homes are at extreme risk of wildfire?

Texas has the second-highest number of any state

By The Spectator

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Politics

How democracy dies

Mail-in voting undermines elections

By Daniel McCarthy

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The 747 was the last moment of romance in air travel

From the ground, you almost sensed a 747 before you heard it

By Stephen Bayley

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Middle East

Pompeo’s principles

Talking policy, paradigms and turning Trump’s instincts into reality

By Dominic Green

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