November 24 2025


Politics November 18, 2025

The bonfire of the New Right’s vanities

The grandstanding over Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes is exhausting

Freddy Gray

Culture November 18, 2025

What would Buckley do?

Will his like ever come again?

Daniel McCarthy

Economics November 18, 2025

It’s the cost of living, stupid

The MAGA agenda will only succeed if Americans feel material relief

Bridget Phetasy

Culture November 18, 2025

Among the lords of tech

Silicon Valley is planning for the future

Matt Ridley

Politics November 18, 2025

Has QAnon been vindicated?

The online movement has, obliquely, been the best guide to events over the past decade

Travis Aaroe

Faith November 18, 2025

How scientists misled the world about faith

One of psychology’s seminal experiments is based on lies

Luke Lyman

Media November 18, 2025

The battle for Anna Wintour’s Vogue empire

Her struggle with the company’s union has become existential

Margaret Mitchell

Politics November 18, 2025

Why Trump is freezing out Five Eyes allies

To the White House, the alliance is a nest of ‘deep-state’ vipers

James Tidmarsh

Europe November 18, 2025

Why Europe can’t go it alone on Ukraine

The continent cannot afford to fund Kyiv’s war effort

Owen Matthews

Europe November 18, 2025

How the Ukrainian far right is preventing peace

If a ceasefire is signed, it is far from clear that they will lay down their arms

Anatoly Grablevsky

Culture November 18, 2025

The lost art of the insult

As with classical opera, we’re not producing this stuff any more; instead we’re replaying old material

Matthew Parris

International November 18, 2025

How wokeness hobbled the Canadian military

Veteran Dallas Alexander on the NATO member’s sensitivity obsession

Jane Stannus

Family November 18, 2025

Beautiful interiors can’t guarantee a beautiful marriage

Every generation falls for the same trick. Why?

Leah McLaren

Culture November 18, 2025

Against flakes

The new trend seems to be to accept an invitation, and then, mere hours before, to duck out of it

Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Technology November 18, 2025

Are we becoming post-literate?

Audio-driven content is rendering reading and writing obsolete

Katherine Dee

Technology November 18, 2025

What the Amish can teach us about tech

Like them we should ask: ‘What is this tool for and what does it make us become?’

James Chiavarini

Technology November 18, 2025

Marijuana legalization has been a disaster

It is high time that these sorts of reckless, devastating policies were discredited

Rupert Stone

Technology November 18, 2025

Why the comet 3I/Atlas still fascinates

Comets mark our progress, our sense of wonder and our fears

David Whitehouse