The Spectator World - 1 Aug 2025
THE END IS AI!
Be human
It’s happening!,
A spoonful of sugar,
What’s the matter with Chicago?
Machine welfare
Battle of the wits
Losing the plot
Losing faith
The domination effect
Mindlessness
Frozen out
Barometer
State intelligence
Countdown
Julia Yost
Roger Kimball
Janet Sutherland
Claude Sonnet 3.7
Court Circular
Diary
Ancient and modern
Daniel Mccarthy
Lionel Shriver
Bridget Phetasy
Editorial
Liberté, égalité, fraternité,
Brought to book,
My friend pointed at these old guys who kept disappearing to the bathroom. It took me a moment to realize what they were doing. Several 85-year-old men, snorting coke together at 4 p.m. on a Sunday. I thought: you’re going to die.
Those I spoke with offered a simple explanation: Trump, a famed gossip, simply loves taking calls. “It’s not that complicated lol — he likes to answer his cell phone,” one reporter covering the White House texts.
Imagine a new general intelligence, running on silicon, millions of times faster than the human brain. Once that system exists, arguably the most important variable will be what goals it’s pursuing — and whether those goals include us.
Musical chairs,
George Young
Philip Womack
Arabella Byrne
Culture
Christopher Sandford
Hollywood’s ending
Bomb squad
Call me Donald
After Khamenei
Sweet belief
Blue note
Alexander Larman
A.S.H. Smyth
John Mac Ghlionn
Film
Homero Aridjis
Exhibitions
Holy spirits,
Horsing around,
Lights, camera...,
The man or woman who orders a Manhattan has something specific to say and is uninterested in easy sweetness or cheap glamour. They care about aesthetics — but wouldn’t want to draw attention to that.
Before we could rest, we had to drive off a sex-mad donkey who was noisily pursuing a female of the species through our line of tents.
The Tolstoy Trail
Perfect pairing
Stairway to heaven
Recipe for success
French fancies
Pick your poison
Café culture
Seeds of doubt
Notes on
Prejudices
Palm life
Mind Your Language
American life
California life
DIARY
The domination effect
Countdown
Machine welfare
# Silicon Wasteland
Mindlessness
Battle of the wits
State intelligence
Losing the plot
Enjoy your slop!
What’s the matter with Chicago?
The Discovery Tree
Swimming in deceit
The Kush push
The mullahs mean their threats
Frozen out
Losing faith
Faint praise
Sweet belief
Bomb squad
See ya later, alligator
Mamdani mania
This land is your land
Daddy DOGE
After Khamenei
Call me Donald
The lessons of Ron Paul
Blue note
Hollywood’s ending
SPECTATOR ACADEMY READING LIST
John Mac Ghlionn
Zoe Strimpel
Christopher Sandford
American psyche
Hard to fathom
Downfall
One Day a Man Forgets
The right stuff
Still roaring
Teenage kicks
Monumental achievement
Once bitten...
Mother of all memoirs
The DEI trap
‘We were headed for the open road, the hills, the horses’ Charles Moore
Hannah Tomes
Peachy Keenan
Sean Thomas
Kara Kennedy
Loyd Grossman
Palm life
California life
American life
Prejudices
Perfect pairing
Café culture
Pick your poison
Stairway to heaven
French fancies
Recipe for success
Seeds of doubt
The Tolstoy trail
Boredom
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