Donald Trump, Democratic president?
Trump should go back to his roots with Chuck and Nancy
The Marie Colvin biopic is a study in compulsion
A Private War reviewed
Only an idiot would predict tonight’s midterm results. So let me oblige
Trump is so divisive that the networks couldn’t agree on who he was dividing
Life & Arts Podcast: Heather Mac Donald on pandering to race and gender, and how it corrupts the university
This week on the Spectator USA Life & Arts podcast, I’m casting the pod with Heather Mac Donald. A scholar…
Axios on HBO: dumb TV for people who think they’re smart
It feels like a media Democrat’s idea of a shot for the sweet spot and the middle ground
A bitter kind of greatness
The Other Side of the Wind reviewed
Donald Trump isn’t anti-Semitic. He’s just a bit ignorant
The President of the United States lives in a bubble smaller than that of the saddest alt-righter
In a tech-obsessed world, Generation X stands a fighting chance
This week’s guest: Matthew Hennessey, author of Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from the Millennials
Another Robert Redford obituary for the heroic white misfit
The Old Man and the Gun reviewed
What’s wrong with the Right?
From paranoid style to paranoid acts
The caravan of the saints
This is what you get when you permit the impoverishment of an entire continent, and then exploit the undocumented labour of those able to escape
American universities need to chop the hand that feeds them tyrants’ cash
How can politically correct universities take money from Mohammed bin Salman?
The origin story of the American moral vacuum
Bad Times at the El Royale reviewed
Life ’n’ Arts Podcast: History and ‘isms’ with David Pryce-Jones
‘I think the common theme in everything that I’ve done, really, is: what makes people believe the extraordinary things they do believe?’
More fake news on Brexit from the New York Times
Stephen Castle has painted a picture of a Britain in panic based off a Facebook group of 1,200 people
Will the royal baby be an American?
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to confirm to the public that it All Works Down There
Writers’ lives do not make good movies
Colette reviewed
For Max Boot, the road from Baghdad leads to the road to Damascus
Boot socks the Republicans and dips a toe among the Democrats, but can he find a footing?
Gandhi on Hitler: ‘I do not believe him to be as bad as he is portrayed’
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World: 1914–1948 by Ramachandra Guha reviewed
The hipster art-incest of Private Life
Private Life reviewed
‘Don’t quote me. They would kill me’: A professor speaks about Brett Kavanaugh and #MeToo at Harvard
Is the Harvard Law campaign against Brett Kavanaugh opening the door to an inquisition that could lay waste to its senior faculty?
Puritanism vs Pornography, and the agony of America
‘Tell ‘em Lindsey sent you!’ he squeaked, offering himself up like a human sacrifice on the altar of entertainment
Was Theresa May attacking Trump, or a blond populist closer to home?
The Prime Minister’s UN gambit exposes her as an unreliable, unsuitable partner
Life ‘n’ Arts Podcast: Knight of the Living Philosophers
In conversation with Roger Scruton
