November 10 2025


Politics November 5, 2025

Is Donald Trump a game theorist?

There may be method to his madness

Christopher Caldwell

Politics November 5, 2025

Why Thomas Sowell still matters

His aphoristic style fits the era of short attention spans

Ben Domenech

Politics November 5, 2025

Prince Andrew finds refuge in video games

The disgraced former prince is living in digital exile

Sam Leith

Politics November 5, 2025

Time for a reckoning on the 2020 election

The previous election was rife with anomalies

Roger Kimball

Politics November 5, 2025

Putin thinks time is on his side

He is now willing to stake all on victory in the field

Owen Matthews

Politics November 5, 2025

I’m a slave to my Apple Watch

Beware human-like tech

Lionel Shriver

Politics November 5, 2025

Humans are more than just apes

Unlike chimps, we have an alarming willingess to believe what we’re told

Jonathan Leaf

Politics November 5, 2025

Pope Leo is following in Francis’s footsteps

The new pope refuses to discipline bishops who move against traditionalists

Joseph D’Hippolito 

International November 5, 2025

Trump is being misled on Venezuela

He risks being bounced into an unpopular foreign war

Daniel McCarthy

Culture November 5, 2025

Wokeness ended my backroom Jeopardy! habit

A bootleg re-enactment of the game succumbed to petty drama

Neal Pollack

Media November 5, 2025

Michael Heath on 75 years at The Spectator

The magazine’s longtime cartoonist speaks

Mary Wakefield

International November 5, 2025

The return of Erik Prince

The former head of Blackwater is becoming a prominent MAGA voice

Paul Wood

Culture November 5, 2025

How chess killed Danya Naroditsky

His passion for the game led to his suicide last month

Euan Dawtrey

Technology November 5, 2025

3I, the interstellar object that’s baffling astronomers

Internet lunatics and hopped-up podcasters are spinning fantastic tales about an extraterrestrial spacecraft

Michael P. Gibson

Technology November 5, 2025

Live-translation AirPods are the future

The guide babbles away and I stand here beaming – I understand every word

Sean Thomas

Technology November 5, 2025

What Islam can teach us about AI

With both the djinn and AI, we encounter answers that sound true, feel true, but lead us miles off the path

Katherine Dee