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Life
The new generation of activists are workplace terrors
Zoe Strimpel
Campaign 2024
And whatever doesn’t kill him makes him stronger
Freddy Gray
Students have given up on building the physical world in the hope they’ll earn more in the virtual one
Austin Williams
They have been screaming for seven years that their chief political opponent is ‘Hitler’ or worse
Roger Kimball
Shots were fired as the former president golfed at his course in West Palm Beach
Juan P. Villasmil
Internet
For years, hunters have been posing as children online, luring predators in chatrooms, and posting videos of their stings, but recently the videos have become weirder
Max Jeffery
The vice presidential candidate’s biographical points have significant political resonance in 2024
Ben Domenech
China
The reality of the new Sino-Russian pact may be less threatening — and more complex — than it appears
Owen Matthews
The vice president was controlled and effective where Trump was angry, defensive and rambling
Charles Lipson
The Democratic candidate remains enigmatic to the point of absurdity
The immoderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, repeatedly pecked at one candidate and not the other
The Netflix gods-and-monsters black-comedy blockbuster will scorch your screen and fry your brain like a thunderbolt from Zeus
James Delingpole
Midnight in Vienna channels the ominous parallels between the present-day rise of fascism in Europe and America with what happened in 1938
Amanda Craig
Entrances and Exits shows the Seinfeld actor’s clever, energetic, dissatisfied, self-critical mind at work
Christopher Sandford
The memoir is less a life story than an investigation into the chain reaction of who (and how) the writer is
A.S.H. Smyth
The ancients had neither police nor prisons
Peter Jones
Back when I was a teenager, things were different
Nicholas Farrell
If you have paid for breakfast, taking away a few items seems no more reprehensible than stuffing yourself silly at the trough
Laurie Graham
We’ve been at our villa in the south of France for nearly three months this summer and during that time we have hosted thirty-four guests
Joan Collins
It was clearly inspired by satirical American and British shows about politics
Spectator Editorial
The Kamala Harris campaign clearly isn’t about policies or speeches; it’s about willing her presidency into existence
Economics
Beneath Kamala Harris’s performative shifts lies an economic and social philosophy handed down by her father
Marc Oestreich
Diary
To say that the prosecutions are ‘dubious’ is to belittle the unsettling power of dubiety
Media
Unhinged left-wing conspiracy theories have entered the mainstream
Amber Duke