July 2020

‘What’s really happening in America is a crisis of authority, from the White House down to your local police precinct. This in turn derives from a crisis in America’s identity — and that’s not about race or racism. It is a crisis in national confidence.’


Politics July 1, 2020

Prodigal son-in-law

Who is the real Jared Kushner?

Paul Wood

Internet July 1, 2020

What we need is social media distancing

Social media brings out the worst in us because the algorithm rewards us for being tribal, divisive and emotional

Bridget Phetasy

Politics July 1, 2020

The Kushner conundrum

Is he a scapegoat or a saboteur?

Amber Duke

Internet July 1, 2020

Just-one-knee syndrome

They took a knee, as it were, when what they should have done was throw themselves to the ground

Toby Young

Politics July 1, 2020

Jared and the Jews

Kushner is a Jewish American Hofjude, a privileged fixer with connections

Dominic Green

Politics July 1, 2020

End of empire

The era of US dominion has now passed

Andrew Bacevich

Politics July 1, 2020

Is this the end of history?

George Floyd was a pretext, not a cause. The cause was destruction of our civilization

Roger Kimball

Politics July 1, 2020

Bright lights, abandoned city

Americans are no longer moving to their shining cultural capital

Chadwick Moore

Spectator Editorial July 1, 2020

No justice, no peace

What’s really happening in America is a crisis of authority, from the White House down to your local police precinct

Spectator Editorial

Politics July 1, 2020

The rioters and the rentiers

Post-industrial cities aren’t working

Michael Lind

Politics July 1, 2020

The new inequality

We’re experiencing an unhealthy overcorrection in racial politics

Douglas Murray

Politics July 1, 2020

Self-righteous vandals

The attempt to prettify history is ugly

Daniel McCarthy

Politics July 1, 2020

Marching against racism is too easy

What we need is practical change

Lionel Shriver

Defund colleges, not cops

Police are not the root of our problems. Academia is

Peter W. Wood