The Spectator World - 1 Jun 2025
THE REVIVING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
Think again
Memory lane,
Trade off,
Blue Dogs still bark
Rufo’s reckoning
Fidget spinners
Come on, get happy
Dark ages
The heckler’s veto
Bunker mentality
God’s influencer
Stephen Romer
Concrete jumble
Why I carry a spy camera in LA
It’s the voters, stupid
No deal
Court Circular
Mary Wakefield
Lionel Shriver
Roger Kimball
Think again
Douglas Murray
Christopher Caldwell
Ancient and modern
Daniel Mccarthy
Bridget Phetasy
Justice Trump?,
I spy,
‘California sober’ is a new phrase I learned this week. It means you don’t drink booze, but everything else — cannabis, nicotine, psychedelics, nootropics — is fair game.
Forget your troubles,
The IPO is now a relic, like true love or God: something investors, French intellectuals and CEOS speak of but no longer truly believe in.
Christopher Sandford
EU politicians like to call Brussels a ‘regulatory superpower.’ That’s a boast.
I desperately want us to bury Woke World deep under the sea like a depraved Atlantis.
Philip Clark
The hypocrisy gene
The tech hiccup
David J. Garrow
Cosmic revelations
No Exits
D.J. Taylor
The Listener
Bridget Phetasy is a Spectator columnist and contributing editor who hosts Dumpster Fire on Youtube. She discusses the “two Americas”
Kara Kennedy is The Spectator’s royal correspondent and writes the Mom Wars Substack. She takes in the revamped Kennedy Center (no relation)
Henry Jeffreys
Theater
Music
Maria Albano
Pop
Jeremy Hildreth, who writes this month’s Diary on p9, is a London-based Angeleno. He runs a family office and is the author of Brand America.
Ben Domenech is US editor-at-large for The Spectator and a Fox News contributor. On p16 he interviews the education revolutionary Christopher Rufo.
Richard Johnson is a senior lecturer in US politics at Queen Mary University of London. He writes about Blue Dog Democrats on
Knives out,
Oh shucks,
Friend or foe?,
When I was last in Toronto, I saw a fellow Canadian wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan ‘The world needs more Canada.’ But does the world need Canada at all?
‘Out shooting again, Mr. Meinertzhagen?’ said an annoying lady to him at a Nairobi dinner. ‘Bang bang bang?’ ‘No,’ Meinertzhagen said. ‘Just bang.’
Forget about the old adage that oysters are best enjoyed in months that contain the letter ‘R.’
CONTRIBUTORS
Auld reekie
Big sky, big waistlines
A matter of taste
Tomato-gate
No, Canada
A plum role
Just add flower
Notes on
Palm life
Mind Your Language
Still life
American life
Wild life
The magazine is just the start
DIARY
Come on, get happy
Du Bellay’s lament, de nos jours
The heckler’s veto
SPECTATOR ACADEMY READING LIST
Keep AI ghouls out of the classroom
Rufo’s reckoning
It’s the voters, stupid
Fidget spinners
The real battle for Europe
Showtime!
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no martyr
Blue Dogs still bark
ANCIENT AND MODERN
No deal
Justice Trump?
Concrete jumble
Am I too Online?
Americano
The secret to great friendships
Dark ages
Bunker mentality
The President is a danger to himself
God’s influencer
Matt Ridley
Ross Clark
David Whitehouse
Michael P. Gibson
The tech hiccup
Read Michael P. Gibson on America’s IPO impasse
Cosmic revelations
The hypocrisy gene
No Exits
Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway
Christopher Sandford
Henry Jeffreys
Philip Clark
Pit-bull patrician
The passage of Ragtime
Evil without equal
Give the gift that keeps giving
Good things
A dish served cold
American idol
The selfie of Dorian Gray
Knockin’ on heaven’s door
THE LISTENER
Sound and fury
Hannah Moore
Dan Fox
Peter Watson
Palm life
Wild life
American life
Still life
A matter of taste
Tomato-gate
Just add flower
Big sky, big waistlines
A plum role
No, Canada
Auld reekie
Ninjas
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