December 2019

‘A Democratic party a little less obsessed with digging around for presidential conspiracies and a little more eager to call out Trump for bad housekeeping might have a better chance of defeating him in 2020.’


Politics December 1, 2019

Trump vs the cities

Progressive leadership is destroying urban America

Chadwick Moore

Washington in winter

The city is quiescent if you compare it to London during Brexit, or New York or Rome during anything

Christopher Caldwell

What a drag: dress-up used to be fun. Now it is far too serious

Gender-bending as a good time is hardly done anymore. The rules are rigid

Karol Markowicz

Politics December 1, 2019

Who likes Mike?

For the Democratic patriciate, a Bloomberg candidacy rests on the idea of a return to normalcy

Jacob Heilbrunn

Spectator Editorial December 1, 2019

Forever in our debt

To be overspending to the extent that Trump is doing is to invite disaster

Spectator Editorial

Europe December 1, 2019

Britain is dangerously close to having an overtly anti-American prime minister

What would that mean for the so-called special relationship?

Ross Clark

Politics December 1, 2019

The Ukraine blame game

There was never anything in the great Ukrainian quid pro quo. It was props and stagecraft

Roger Kimball

Politics December 1, 2019

GOP West: could Republicans have an Arizona advantage?

Tolerating illegal immigration might not be the winning issue Democrats have long assumed it to be

Daniel McCarthy

Internet December 1, 2019

OK zoomer

It’s not us baby boomers who are the problem

Cosmo Landesman