FROM THE MAGAZINE

October 2021

Who wrote the book of rock?

One of the reasons I wanted to write my book was that I was hoping it would explain my life to me

By Steven Van Zandt

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Politics

Worse than porn

I am a ‘media personality’ who occasionally opens my pie-hole on conservative media outlets. I’ve even appeared on Fox

By Bridget Phetasy

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Middle East

History returns for Putin and Erdogan

The era of good feelings between Russia and Turkey seems to be over

By Sean McMeekin

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Science & Tech

The United States of Fear

The reasons why international travel is off-limits and shameful have nothing to do with medical facts

By Karol Markowicz

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Politics

Joe Biden’s Swamp

The Biden family is in deep

By Matthew Continetti

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Politics

The great unraveling

The Biden administration is an unmitigated disaster unfolding in real time

By Roger Kimball

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Internet

If the Croc fits

The most unflattering shoe to come to market in generations is now ubiquitous among disaffected youth

By Chadwick Moore

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Politics

Jeopardy! is in trouble

Have enough cleft-toed demisexual non-binary POCs been contestants on Jeopardy!?

By Matt Purple

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Business

Crypto casino

The entrepreneurial spirit of Generation Z has become notorious

By Mary Kate Skehan

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International

The myth of the good Afghan war

Nothing we did in Afghanistan really worked

By Jesse Singal

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Politics

The vanishing presidency

Without ‘competence’ as its rationale, what does the Biden administration have to fall back on?

By Daniel McCarthy

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China

China’s #MeToo moment

China’s feminists are fighting back

By Ian Williams

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Politics

Hunter Biden, artist of modern life

Without vision, training or talent, Hunter Biden deigns to glue his crippling jewels onto the back of our society

By James Panero

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Miami state of mind

Miami is more spiritually American — in the Platonic, pre-woke sense — than any other city

By Alex Perez

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Politics

Life in LA is murder

There is no law in California

By John Meroney

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International

Return to Kabul

Have the Taliban changed or is it just a facade to get foreign aid?

By Christina Lamb

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Education

How Harvard went woke

Harvard University claims to be America’s finest — but it has become a hotbed of timidity and bigotry

By Ruth Wisse

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Politics

Trump’s second wave

Is Trump surfing to another Republican nomination?

By Jay Caruso

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Spectator Editorial

The disconnect

We are not yet a year into this presidency, but it is already in trouble

By Spectator Editorial

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