Life & Arts coverage from Spectator USA
Could Amazon have picked two less deserving cities for HQ2?
If the aim was to elevate places that have been ‘left behind,’ NYC and NOVA would be at the literal bottom of the list
Stan Lee made comic books great again
The Marvel editor-in-chief turned the superhero world upside down by introducing ironic detachment and human foibles
The new Planned Parenthood pro-abortion ad is revolting
If the baby is so cute, she deserves, I’d say, to live. She deserves not to be killed in utero
Hitler, a hundred years ago
As World War One ended, a slender 29-year-old German dispatch runner named Adolf Hitler lay in a military hospital in Pomerania
Roger Scruton becomes the latest victim of the Twitchfork mob
The left in Britain has been reduced to online metal-detectorists searching the internet for material they can pretend to be shocked by
All hail Dan Crenshaw on SNL: sharing jokes beats confected outrage!
Credit to SNL for inviting the veteran on. Well done also to that troll-doll-with-a-tape-worm, Pete Davidson, who ain't so bad
Governor-elect Gavin Newsom’s baptism by fire in California
Difficult politics amid the flames of Ventura County
The dangerous silence in higher education
I suggested that more balance was needed in academic programming. Within hours, my office door and surrounding corridor was vandalized
Wig-snatching and ‘hate crime’ in Hollywood
In the end a judge will finally decide whether the wig-snatcher of North Hollywood was acting on anti-Semitic impulses
The ignorant hounding of Roger Scruton
A very stupid outrage campaign is underway to stop the philosopher from taking an unpaid British government post
Thanks to Making a Murderer, Wisconsin’s bovine incompetence has been exposed
How long do the state authorities think they can get away with it?
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 at the Manhattan Institute, Heather is the author of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and…
Rumors of war in Virginia
The memory of the Civil War helped make Woodrow Wilson the ambivalent wartime leader he proved to be
‘Trump hasn’t turned out to be the disaster his enemies predicted’: Jordan Peterson at Cambridge
Backstage at the Union the individualist’s individualist is readying himself for a possible avalanche of groupthink snowflakery
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
Tech doesn’t have a gender problem
How can tech employers be expected to hunt for female recruits when few women have chosen to acquire relevant qualifications?
