The confusion of the Confucians
Kissinger is right about Trump, of course
The Green Room, Spectator USA’s Life & Arts podcast: The Greek way of death
David Saunders of the J. Paul Getty Museum discusses their latest exhibition
Is Roger really what Ailes the American republic?
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes reviewed
The height of hypocrisy: why on earth is Bohemian Rhapsody up for a Golden Globe?
It’s a mediocre vehicle that promotes Queen’s back catalog and some contemporary virtues
The Green Room, Spectator USA’s Life & Arts podcast: Talking blues with Chris Thomas King
This week on the Green Room, I’m talking the blues with Grammy-winning blues artist Chris Thomas King. Earlier this week,…
Court with its pants down
The Favourite reviewed
George H.W. Bush was the representative president
The death of the last president to have served in World War Two represents the passing of an age
The Green Room: What do we get? Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks were ‘the fastest thing on two reels’
Bernardo Bertolucci was more pervert than genius
His films were boring, too
’Twas the night after Thanksgiving
What will the White House’s Thanksgiving look like in 10 years’ time?
The Green Room podcast: Nicolas Roeg and Performance
The director Nicolas Roeg, who died on Friday aged 90, was a master of daring, dreamlike cinema — so daring…
Airbnb’s boycott and Facebook’s child bride: the moral vacuum of the internet
Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be adequately explained by greed
As Robert the Bruce, Chris Pine smolders like a castle the morning after its sacking
Outlaw King reviewed
Why is Tommy Robinson banned from America?
His kind of populism is what you get when government and media collude to silence the lawfully expressed opinions of ordinary people
The Green Room Podcast: the virtue of nationalism, with philosopher Yoram Hazony
‘Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism,’ French president Emmanuel Macron said at last weekend’s Armistice Day ceremonies. ‘Nationalism is…
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
