August 2025


Politics July 14, 2025

Should AI have rights?

Some scientists believe they might be creating life

Paul Wood

Culture July 14, 2025

How we lost the ability to think

The absence of silence breeds the absence of thought

Katherine Dee

Science & Tech July 14, 2025

In the age of AI, humans must keep learning

We will need well-trained natural brains if we are to keep the artificial brains we have created under control

Christopher Caldwell

Politics July 14, 2025

How should AI be regulated?

The mistakes and successes of earlier tech revolutions should be pondered

Michael Lind

Culture July 14, 2025

The 2020s are too far-fetched for fiction

There are too many loose ends. Too many vanishing subplots

Sean Thomas

Politics July 14, 2025

The internet is dying and so are we

If we aren’t dead inside already, tech is doing its best

Bridget Phetasy

Politics July 14, 2025

What’s the matter with Chicago?

The city was always corrupt. Now it is broken

Charles Lipson

Politics July 14, 2025

The left has grown adept at gaslighting

Our overlords are petrified by the consequences of the very mass immigration they engineered

Lionel Shriver

Law July 14, 2025

Where is Jared Kushner?

To call the shots in Trumpland, it helps to operate behind the scenes

Kara Kennedy

Middle East July 14, 2025

The mullahs mean their threats

By and large, the West has grudgingly accommodated Iran’s petulant malevolence

Roger Kimball

China July 14, 2025

Could Xi Jinping’s time be up?

Given the dire problems facing China, it seems plausible that forces within the CCP have had enough

Francis Pike

Politics July 14, 2025

How progressivism killed American Protestantism

Time and again, ministry to the faithful took a back seat to left-wing orthodoxy

Chris Mondics

Education July 14, 2025

Elon Musk and the art of flattery

The kolax does not pay attention to unimportant persons, but only to those with power

Peter Jones

Culture July 14, 2025

Why Mormons can’t get enough sugar

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are devouring the American dessert industry

Luke Lyman

International July 14, 2025

Will we stop Saudi Arabia developing a nuclear weapon?

The Saudis have poured money into other people’s bomb-making programs

Andrew Cockburn

Politics July 14, 2025

DoGE, alligators, public land and Mamdani mania

Despite Elon and Trump’s public fallout, DoGE is still slashing away at the federal workforce

The Spectator

Middle East July 14, 2025

Who replaces the ayatollahs if the Iranian regime falls?

Whatever happens, it seems unlikely that any regime change will be peaceful

Colin Freeman

Politics July 14, 2025

Why President Trump can’t stop talking to reporters

‘He has to be, by a country mile, the most accessible president in the history of the presidency’

Aidan McLaughlin

Politics July 14, 2025

The lessons of Ron Paul

The former congressman showed what an anti-establishment campaign within the GOP could achieve

Daniel McCarthy

Politics July 14, 2025

Can Clarksdale find its mojo again?

Bubba’s campaign had been a message of Christianity combined with doomsday prophecy

Graham Boynton

Culture July 14, 2025

Inside Texas’s bold takeover of the American film industry

The Lone Star State is coming for the big, bright jewel of cultural capital

Ben Domenech