September 2020

‘From the moment Trump took the oath of office, his presidency has not been about “Trumpism”. It has been about Donald Trump. Every day of the Trump presidency is like a new episode of a reality TV show.’


Politics September 1, 2020

The return of the Blob

It will mean the return of competence in government — and a sense of dynamism too

Robert D. Kaplan

Politics September 1, 2020

The future of populist conservatism

The anti-liberal opposition will continue to be demotic and anti-theoretic, impatient with and scornful of ideas, in public life especially

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Politics September 1, 2020

After Trump, the reckoning

The election of Biden and Harris will not solve any of the problems that led to Trump’s election in the first place

Daniel McCarthy

Politics September 1, 2020

American Athens

From democracy to oligarchy

Solveig Lucia Gold

Politics September 1, 2020

Why I won’t vote

If Trump wins, I reckon America will burn. If Trump loses, America will burn

Bridget Phetasy

Politics September 1, 2020

Make America Normal Again

Trump should double down on his COVID skepticism, just as Lukashenko did

Toby Young

Politics September 1, 2020

Playing with fire

Democratic leaders who fail to condemn the West Coast rioters may get burned

Charles Lipson

Spectator Editorial September 1, 2020

The right stuff

As long as Trump and his family remain the fulcrum of American politics, the GOP will be effectively without a leader

Spectator Editorial

Politics September 1, 2020

The right after Trump

The time of the woke conservative must come

Sohrab Ahmari

Politics September 1, 2020

Cuckoo Q: are the QAnon crowd as crazy as they seem?

Where we go one, we go off the deep end

Ben Sixsmith

An Anglo-American hero

Billy Fiske, the volunteer pilot who died to save Britain

William Cook