Life & Arts coverage from Spectator USA
Sarah Cooper isn’t funny
Her lip-syncing videos elicit a lot of what Donald Glover called ‘clapter’. That’s not really comedy
Island life is not for me
Serifos is an island in the western Cyclades that once upon a time was a place of exiles
American magicians in London
In 2003, David Blaine spent 44 days in a plexiglass box suspended above the River Thames. It was amazing, yes, but it wasn’t magic
Alan Dershowitz: ‘We will get her…she will end up in prison for perjury’
Twenty questions for Alan Dershowitz
How to get into a club and onto a plane
‘OK, Charlie, put your mask on,’ I whispered. ‘And whatever you do, don’t sneeze’
The real Rupert Murdoch
Wendi would humiliate him at dinner parties by saying things like, ‘What do you know? You are an old man’
No one emerges from a court fight looking clean
Unless you have been accused of a crime such as murder, taking legal action is like stepping in quicksand
A ticket to Rye
Rye encapsulates a quintessential sort of Englishness: creative yet conservative, cultural yet parochial
Sports are back — but COVID isn’t gone
‘Your linemen are right next to each other spitting in each other’s faces — there’s really no avoiding that.’
Rich people are struggling during COVID, too
The average age in the Hamptons has to be well over 50 so the Hinge market was a disappointment
Don’t end blind auditions
There are very few hiring processes where elements of bias based on race, gender, friendship and family can be totally eliminated
When ‘j’accuse’ is just a smear
The false, malicious attacks on the Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass
Olivia de Havilland’s Red Scare
She was not an anti-communist in spite of being a liberal, she was an anti-communist because she was a liberal
Avocado angst: is there anything safe to eat?
Such is our collective eco-anxiety that there now exists a Climate Psychology Alliance
The myth of a ‘privacy-loving’ Harry and Meghan
The more hard done the Duke and Duchess appear, the more sympathy they garner from friends and allies
Trekking towards the future
In an economy that favors black economic empowerment, Afrikaners now struggle to find their footing
