FROM THE MAGAZINE

September 2021

Spectator Editorial

After Afghanistan

9/11 was the last time the country was truly united in its response to anything

By Spectator Editorial

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Internet

Why are young women writing homosexual erotica about men?

Slash is any fanfiction that’s anchored in a homosexual relationship

By Katherine Dee

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Science & Tech

The trans war on the body

Trans rights are changing what it is to be human

By Mary Harrington

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International

Central Asia’s geography after America’s defeat

Central Asia is going to matter substantially in terms of 21st-century geopolitics

By Robert D. Kaplan

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Politics

The long march to disaster

The US military spends money but cannot win wars

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

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Science & Tech

Hot vax summer

Despite the much-anticipated ‘shot girl summer’, life hasn’t snapped back to normal

By Mary Kate Skehan

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Business

Substack changed the business of journalism

Substack took off because people are increasingly distrustful of mainstream media outlets

By Jesse Singal

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Education

The future of liberal education

The war on liberal education is an assault on liberal democracy

By Roger Kimball

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Middle East

How America squandered its moral authority in Iraq

The true cost of the disaster in Iraq may still have to be paid

By Paul Wood

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International

The last war for democracy

Islamism has every reason to triumph in Afghanistan. But its triumph may be its undoing

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

What Biden learnt from Trump

Can the President survive without the global media?

By Freddy Gray

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Politics

I think Donald Trump’s email team is trying to murder me

I had been receiving Trump’s fundraising emails for years and certainly the language had always been insistent. But this was a new level of aggression

By Matt Purple

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International

Autopsy of a failed war

Our longest war ends in another abject failure

By Andrew Bacevich

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International

Who’d want to move to America now?

Average Europeans live much nicer lives than average Americans

By Sean Thomas

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Cuomo, Trump and the secret of eternal political life

The disappearance of working writers in the Hamptons mirrors the absence of writers in US public life

By Michael Wolff

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