Life & Arts coverage from Spectator USA
No-one comes off well in the Allen-Farrow family drama
We could believe either Allen’s version or Farrow’s, but that would get us no closer to the truth, because neither is trustworthy and both are proven fantasists
Ian Buruma and the age of sexual McCarthyism
The New York Review of Books editor is the latest casualty of the identitarian mob
When did advertising become so banal?
The more starry-eyed the corporate motto, the bleaker the reality it conceals
Tech gurus don’t let their kids have smartphones. Here’s why
As suspicions about technology’s dark side increase, the ‘digital detox’ has grown in social status
The trouble with American universities: I talk to Jamie Kirchick
Life’n’Arts podcast with the Brookings Institute fellow running for a seat on Yale’s board
A changing climate on the Texas Gulf Coast
Contrary to the rhetoric, the immigrants here are decent, frugal, God-fearing, entrepreneurial family people
Big Jay McNeely brought joy to millions with his music
The legendary tenor saxophonist died last weekend aged 91
Arena talks in Dublin and London with Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris and Douglas Murray
It was humbling to see two vast arenas more commonly used for rock concerts packed with thousands of people participating in some deeply demanding discussions
‘If you don’t want to taste the goat’s milk, at least watch the farmer in action’
The Angel reviewed
The rule of Caesar Mark Zuckerberg
The Facebook CEO is enthralled by the power ancient tyrants wielded
Gloriously macho: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan reviewed
For too long the leftie-dominated entertainment industry has been ignoring the truth about our world
It’s not transphobic to question transgenderism
Why has any expression of measured concern about the trans phenomenon become so impossible?
Elon Musk and the dwindling appeal of public eccentricity
The entrepreneur only seems like an oddball because culture is so homogenised
Is San Francisco’s homeless problem really getting worse?
From dead Beats to deadbeats on the streets of San Francisco
Serena Williams is a sore loser, not a victim
She can lose without behaving like a diva brat, but sometimes she can’t, and when she loses her temper she is a fairly awful human being
Whining Serena Williams is tennis’s Hillary Clinton
Things didn’t turn out how she wanted — so she had a tantrum at the umpire. How classy!
2001: A Space Odyssey still gets better as it goes along, 50 years on
The critics who disliked 2001 on its initial release found the characters empty and the plot thin — but it’s their criticism that has dated badly
The neo-Marxist takeover of our universities
We owe the fact we haven’t been bamboozled by socialist snake-oil salesmen to the innate good sense of the ordinary working man
