Life & Arts coverage from Spectator USA
Digby Dent on lawn darts in winter
Taking a doughy-handed son of privilege and making him clubbable doesn’t happen by magic
My wild Key West
I have never been anywhere where the sea has such beautiful colors that change so rapidly
The unwritten rules of sending Christmas cards
We always write ‘we really must see each other next year’ and we mean it, although we won’t see each other ever again
The problem with Goldman Sachs’s preferred pronouns
Accepting ‘ze/zir’ is accepting the idea that sex is mutable and gender is innate
Leave Jessica Yaniv alone
I mostly blame Ricky Gervais for the hate this brave woman is having to fight against every day
Don’t blame all ‘weird’ weather on climate change
Campaigners tend to try and pin every piece of adverse weather on man-made climate change
Actually, the husband in the Peloton commercial is a hero
This man spent nearly $3,000 on the Instagram-worthy exercise machine of the bourgeoisie
Detroit’s comeback is a myth
The economy booms, the construction cranes jam the skylines while the homeless set up camp on the sidewalks and bathe in the public fountains
Hungary isn’t afraid to call ‘Christian persecution’ what it is
Their approach is unprecedented in its humility
The real reason for college food fights
Scarcely a month passes without a food-related scandal causing uproar on campus
Doorbell cameras offer a window to the wild
The rise of devices like Ring and Nest has brought a love of candid-camera critters into the mainstream
Michael Wolff is working on ‘nothing’
A surprising number of my contemporaries have children who are stand-up comics
The Black Friday brawl is a precious national pastime
Participating in Black Friday is more American than participating in elections
