FROM THE MAGAZINE

September 2022

Education

The Roman roots of ‘colony’

The Greeks are better thought of as overseas settlers, often driven by land hunger, starvation, commerce or simply the search for a better life.

By Peter Jones

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Spectator Editorial

Biden’s border blues

The administration has had plenty of time to end this crisis

By Spectator Editorial

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How to start a university

It’s awe-inspiring to watch the UATX taking shape

By Pano Kanelos

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Culture

A hazy afternoon with Bill Maher

‘The young people are the prudes and don’t find anything funny’

By James Kirchick

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Culture

Shane Gillis is going places

He’s perhaps the greatest rising comedian, a beer drinker who understands Trump’s appeal

By Ben Domenech

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Culture

Why I’ll never make it in stand-up

It’s the hardest, most unforgiving performance medium on the planet

By Bridget Phetasy

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Business

How Netflix saved comedy

It saturated the market with comics who are on opposite sides of the culture wars

By Art Tavana

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Politics

DeSantis is a Republican establishment win-win

The populist heart may want Trump, but many heads are for the Florida governor

By Daniel McCarthy

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Politics

Is the right about to backslide on gay rights?

It’s been dismaying to see anti-gay sentiment bubbling up

By Bruce Bawer

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Europe

Ukraine is the first streaming service war

It debuted to a burst of attention only for everyone to lose interest

By Matt Purple

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Policy

My New York nightmare

I’m back in a city where you can’t walk alone after dark. Thank you, Democrats!

By Ann Coulter

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Science & Tech

The strange effort to ‘decolonize’ global health

Some are unctuously eager to respect non-Western premises about medicine

By Peter W. Wood

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Education

The lost boys of Covid

School closures have set off a devastating domino effect

By Bethany Mandel

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Science & Tech

The trouble with Tavistock

Abuse is heaped on anyone who has questioned the trend toward carelessness in youth gender medicine

By Jesse Singal

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Business

The scissor sisters

I hate to break it to you, ladies, but no man wants a woman barber

By Chadwick Moore

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Internet

Taylor Lorenz is a crybully

She mines outrage and attention by crusading against the ethically unenlightened

By Ashley Rindsberg

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Politics

The real motivation for the FBI raid

It wasn’t to collect classified documents

By Roger Kimball

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Economics

The revenge of the analog economy

Digital fantasies have collided with analog reality

By Joel Kotkin

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