My day: Ilhan Omar
As told to Dominic Green
How good is the film Liam Neeson was trying to promote?
Cold Pursuit reviewed
The weedman cometh
I don’t want a drug shop in our family neighborhood
Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Corbyn
AOC is the acceptable face of socialism, washed clean of the crimes which New Left people like Corbyn have spent their lives explaining away
Maroon 5, America 0
Sport is supposed to be an escape from everyday life, but the Kaepernick-Trump stand-off has ruined all that
No, Mary Poppins Returns isn’t racist
Another piece of elite idiocy in The New York Times
Why are academics defending pedophilia?
A professor at one of the US’s top universities identifies ‘benefits’ for children in having sex with adults
Cold War is a true work of art
Cold War reviewed
Russell Baker and Masterpiece Journalism
The absence of directness in modern American journalism reflects the cowardice and complicity of the journalists
The Women’s March and the anatomy of fascism
The movement is in crisis, because many women won’t allow themselves to be marched
Which Fyre Festival documentary is most worth watching?
Fyre Fraud and Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened reviewed
A tale of a dead woman walking
Destroyer reviewed
My week: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
As told to Dominic Green
Moral preening and identity politics were the big winners at the Golden Globes
The answer to the race conundrum was to split the difference between the minorities, and give most of the awards to white actors
Feeling lucky, pops?
The Mule reviewed
The Green Room, Spectator USA’s Life & Arts podcast: Anarchy and Empire with Robert Kaplan
The failures of American foreign policy are caused by the convergence of factors domestic and foreign
The beginning is nigh
20 predictions for 2019
The critics are wrong about Holmes & Watson
Holmes & Watson reviewed
Amos Oz, a giant of Israeli literature and politics
In Oz’s novels, the materiality of politics dominates the waking day, and the dreams and nightmares of literature the sleepless nights
The power behind the power behind the power
Vice reviewed
Trump’s Mideast carve-up
Christmas came early for Turkey
Boycott Christmas!
Don’t be fooled by the Zionist narrative!
Should George Soros be Person of the Year?
It depends on which year
The Green Room podcast: Auctions, sculptures, and horse flesh – the best art exhibitions in 2018
This week, I’m casting the pod with a congeries of crack art critics from The New Criterion: James Panero, Benjamin…
Hail Mary
Mary Queen of Scots reviewed
