Life & Arts coverage from Spectator USA
The left’s real cause is muzzling its opponents
The kind of people who want to cancel someone are looking not for an apology, but for vengeance
New York has really gone to pot when the tallest skyscrapers lie empty
Bad taste and bad manners are ubiquitous in New York, so why should good taste suddenly prevail in putting up buildings?
Stayin’ alive in ’75
Meryl Meisler’s photographs captured the family life and nightlife of Seventies New York
The link between politics and moisturizer
With some surprise I found reset has been in use since the early 17th century
There’s no need to panic about coronavirus
Nasty bugs derived from Chinese livestock markets never fail to whip up mass hysteria
Back in the USSR
Foraging for mushrooms and the taste of freedom in eastern Europe, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
An Englishman in New York
Mist was blowing in drifts off the East River and already I could feel the intoxication of the city
What if Harvey Weinstein did nothing wrong?
There’s something far more evil than being a sex creep of his ilk: the culture that brought him down
So you’ve been canceled. Here’s how to fight back
Let’s make 2020 the year cancel culture gets canceled
Roman funerals had real ‘emotional intelligence’
There was a tradition of preserving death masks of the departed, complete with lists of achievements
The history, power and beauty of infographics
W.E.B. Du Bois’s eloquent and ingenious charts, maps and diagrams showing the progress of 19th-century African Americans were powerful weapons in combatting racism
George Orwell would have been a Brexiteer
What Orwell would have disapproved of is the Maoist climate of intolerance sweeping through our institutions
Style on steroids: the power of Jerry Bruckheimer
Bruckheimer may think that the Oedipus Complex is a Greek shopping mall, but the set-ups of Bad Boys and Top Gun are classical
All I dream of is becoming a tradwife
Perhaps other women belong in the Senate, but I belong in the kitchen
The story of my only novel
I had to spend a solid year assuring readers that I did not prematurely ejaculate. Boy was that embarrassing
Was this journalist sacked for saying ‘sex is binary’?
When I look at the way journalism sometimes deals with trans issues, I worry
The trouble with designating ‘incels’ a terror threat
The last thing we need is another buzzword to vilify those we disagree with
