FROM THE MAGAZINE

September 2020

‘From the moment Trump took the oath of office, his presidency has not been about “Trumpism”. It has been about Donald Trump. Every day of the Trump presidency is like a new episode of a reality TV show.’

Waiting game: the NFL takes the COVID challenge

The NFL is right to do everything in its power to start the season as planned

By Charles Walford

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Politics

Is Stephen Miller pursuing policy — or power?

‘He’s like Lady Macbeth. It’s someone who is so ravenous to get what they want, and instead they become a victim of their own insanity’

By Amber Duke

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Insufferable San Francisco

Suburban rockers have ruined my city

By Katya Sedgwick

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Might ‘may’ kill ‘might’?

In recent years the distinction between may and might in the present tense has collapsed

By Dot Wordsworth

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Politics

The return of the Blob

It will mean the return of competence in government — and a sense of dynamism too

By Robert D. Kaplan

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Politics

The future of populist conservatism

The anti-liberal opposition will continue to be demotic and anti-theoretic, impatient with and scornful of ideas, in public life especially

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Politics

After Trump, the reckoning

The election of Biden and Harris will not solve any of the problems that led to Trump’s election in the first place

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

American Athens

From democracy to oligarchy

By Solveig Lucia Gold

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Politics

Why I won’t vote

If Trump wins, I reckon America will burn. If Trump loses, America will burn

By Bridget Phetasy

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Politics

Make America Normal Again

Trump should double down on his COVID skepticism, just as Lukashenko did

By Toby Young

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Politics

Playing with fire

Democratic leaders who fail to condemn the West Coast rioters may get burned

By Charles Lipson

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Spectator Editorial

The right stuff

As long as Trump and his family remain the fulcrum of American politics, the GOP will be effectively without a leader

By Spectator Editorial

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Politics

The right after Trump

The time of the woke conservative must come

By Sohrab Ahmari

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Politics

Cuckoo Q: are the QAnon crowd as crazy as they seem?

Where we go one, we go off the deep end

By Ben Sixsmith

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An Anglo-American hero

Billy Fiske, the volunteer pilot who died to save Britain

By William Cook

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