November 2019

‘Extinction Rebellion has discovered that by mixing up its demands with concern for the environment, it can win support — or at least a passing kind of support — from a much wider band of the population.’


Big dope: how marijuana benefited from one of the slickest PR campaigns in history

The effects on many of its users are permanent. They may give it up, but the damage has been done

Peter Hitchens

Tacitus, master of ‘government sources’

For the modern journalist, rumor and inside sources, however attractive, often generate only fake news

Peter Jones

Education November 1, 2019

Asians are doing too well — they must be stopped

The Asian American success story catastrophically undermines the assumptions behind affirmative action

Lionel Shriver

Politics November 1, 2019

Trump’s economic nationalism is an effort to save capitalism

America needs to harness capitalism as successfully as China has

Daniel McCarthy

Spectator Editorial November 1, 2019

Mass extinction

The only way to tackle Extinction Rebellion is by dissecting its ideology

Spectator Editorial

Europe November 1, 2019

Berlin on the brink

Germany’s economic ills could have far-reaching effects

Liam Halligan

Who really invented the word ‘posh’?

People prefer memorable tales, especially those involving acronyms, to the truth

Dot Wordsworth

California is a gigantic asylum

Before the 1960s, the culture of lunacy in California was confined to Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Carmel

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Internet November 1, 2019

Words matter: we must be more honest about language

When we say politicians should be pilloried, we don’t mean passers-by should throw rocks at them

Sam Leith

Internet November 1, 2019

Who’s listening? Civilized debate is dead

Our society has become perfectly content with a set of unchallenged lies

Douglas Murray

Politics November 1, 2019

Trans rights, voter wrongs

Insisting that men can be women is a sure way to lose an election

Meghan Murphy

Education November 1, 2019

Why are young people so left-wing?

Left-wing professors think it’s their responsibility to open their students’ eyes to injustice

Toby Young

Politics November 1, 2019

The shallow state

A real Deep State would have stopped Trump winning in the first place

Paul Wood

Politics November 1, 2019

Big Squaw E. Warren speaks with forked tongue

Do the Democrats have a death wish?

Roger Kimball

Politics November 1, 2019

Elizabeth Warren is the Hillary Clinton of 2020

The Massachusetts senator is a left-wing populist for people who don’t want left-wing populism

John R. MacArthur

Politics November 1, 2019

Does Trump have a better idea than endless wars?

Few in Washington acknowledge the scope of the self-inflicted wounds the US has sustained since 9/11

Andrew Bacevich