October 2019 Issue
October 2019 Issue

October 2019

‘Our contributors are chosen for originality and sense of style, not political affiliation. It’s not The Spectator’s job to tell people how to think: we want to entertain and challenge readers.’

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Daddy issues: the fatherhood revolution has failed

Cosmo Landesman

It would be hard to argue that today’s teenagers have emerged happier than the generation raised by distant dads
new york american

Taki

The differences between British and American readers
comedy

Godfrey Elfwick

The best comedy is the type that makes white people feel terrible about themselves
hog

Benjamin Riley

Hog wild in Indiantown
wokeness puritanism

Faith October 1, 2019

Puritanism is back…and welcome to it

Martyrdom has become ‘inclusive’

P.J. O’Rourke

batavia new york

Home October 1, 2019

I am a part of Batavia, New York

My friend Henry W. Clune used to say that all he ever really wanted was to appear considerable in the eyes of his hometown

Bill Kauffman

magazine leader spectator

Media October 1, 2019

Good morning, America

We dare to believe that we offer something that is lacking in journalism on both sides of the Atlantic

Spectator Editorial

french

Home October 1, 2019

The mysterious ways of the French

Everything in this country is as strange to me today as it was five years ago

Jeremy Clarke

tasiilaq greenland

Home October 1, 2019

A vacation in Greenland

For a country where people cling to the edges of a vast land mass, local identity seems important

Robert Chote