Life & Arts coverage from Spectator USA
Would this Marseille-bound flight be the death of me?
As the chap I was wedged against coughed and sneezed his mask awry, I look out of the window and thought about dying
I’ve started a dating site for lockdown skeptics
The idea is that if you’re a COVID realist you don’t want to go out with a hysteric who frets about a ‘second wave
How to fight a good war
I shall never forget the first time an account of the Battle of Marathon was read to me
The dangers of unconscious bias training
Employers know it doesn’t work, so why do they insist on using it?
Racism is a sin and we are all sinners
It is naive of the affronted conservative to deny that he or she carries any significant trace of racism
Ghislaine Maxwell and me
The last time I ran into Ghislaine was at a Sotheby’s preview. She was as friendly and engaging as ever
Bernard Bailyn’s unfinished revolution
It’s time to revive ‘the Bailyn School’ for future generations
Babies on demand: the nasty side of surrogacy
One agency shows a smiling blonde wearing a T-shirt captioned ‘I grow cute babies’
Canceling Kindergarten Cop is a step too far
This is nothing to do with the strength of activists, and everything to do with the cowardice of institutions
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
