August 2020

‘It’s hard to oppose, let alone revile, a man who often seems to have no idea what he is saying. Biden elicits a combination of sympathy and apathy, yet he keeps surging ahead in the polls.’


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

Revd Steve Morris

Politics August 1, 2020

Biden is not the president America needs

First, he is old. Second, he is old-school

Andrew Bacevich

Internet August 1, 2020

Twitter has stolen my life

I’m a slave to my online persona. And she’s a slave to the algorithm, and we must feed the algorithm

Bridget Phetasy

Politics August 1, 2020

Same old same old

Politics is less bedeviled by the age of the parties’ leaders than by the staleness of the parties’ programs

Daniel McCarthy

Politics August 1, 2020

Obama’s disappearing legacy

What exactly did he achieve?

David J. Garrow

Politics August 1, 2020

What will Biden do?

Prepare for four more years of executive disappointment

Matthew Continetti

The bourgeois class is the most cowardly and easily intimidated in history

The alliance between the Intelligentsia and the Cave Anarchists, while informal, is also entirely natural and indeed inevitable

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Spectator Editorial August 1, 2020

Biden offers no change and no hope

Expect four more years of disappointment and stasis

Spectator Editorial

Internet August 1, 2020

Godfrey’s Race to Dinner

Your vanilla voice is not welcome. Your low-pigment opinions are invalid

Godfrey Elfwick

The dawn of the sex pest celebrity

Why can’t the famous stop thrusting their sexuality on us?

Julie Burchill