April 2020

‘We’ve dedicated this issue to the much-discussed but sometimes nebulous subject of “post-liberalism”. The Spectator has always supported liberty and will continue to, but, as Tim Stanley suggests, liberalism may now need saving from itself.’


Europe April 1, 2020

Right on: Boris Johnson’s Britain and the new political reality

Neoliberalism was a ruling-class project that was never popular with working-class citizens

Michael Lind

Politics April 1, 2020

Foreign policy is in a straitjacket

The Ivy League graduates who constitute America’s foreign policy elite think just like Robespierre

Daniel McCarthy

Politics April 1, 2020

Constrained by freedom: what do post-liberals want?

Liberalism may be a doctrine to organize your society by; it is not a doctrine to live your life by

James Mumford

Degrees of control

America’s colleges are selling themselves to hostile foreign states

Peter W. Wood

Politics April 1, 2020

After liberalism

Are we entering a new era of political thought?

Tim Stanley

Social justice isn’t always just

The reaction of most accused men is to say nothing in the hope that the outrage caravan will move on

Toby Young

Europe April 1, 2020

Living in an Italy consumed by fear

Right now, the death rate from coronavirus in Italy is more than 8 percent

Nicholas Farrell

Politics April 1, 2020

America is socialist, dummy

Let us count the ways…

Patrick Allitt

A final farewell

Some carefully chosen words about what it means to say goodbye

Toby Harnden

Spectator Editorial April 1, 2020

The weak response to coronavirus is a symptom of the decay of the liberal state

The modern nation-state has always offered a deal: liberty for protection. America’s liberal state frequently fails to honor its side of the bargain

Spectator Editorial

Politics April 1, 2020

Time to scrap the Goldwater Rule

Biden’s many errors are tokens of serious mental incapacity

Roger Kimball