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America’s Summer of Discontent, 250 years ago

Thomas Jefferson

Politics

America’s Summer of Discontent, 250 years ago

The critical months that led to independence

Michael R. Auslin

Why is James Madison so consistently forgotten?

Whether or not we need a real monument to the Founding Father, his contribution to the blueprint of America ought not go unnoticed

Ella Johnson

The awesome Alan Pell Crawford

The writer has made a literary reputation on his fluid narratives of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Southern history

Bill Kauffman

The populism of Machiavelli and Jefferson

In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures

Daniel McCarthy

Drink

Madeira, our onetime national drink

John Adams remarked that a few glasses made anyone feel capable of being president

Roger Kimball

Spectator Editorial
December 5, 2023
Why press freedom is vital
It is not ‘sentimental’ to worry about the world’s oldest English-language magazine being snapped up by the UAE
The Spectator
Education
March 5, 2023
Thomas Jefferson and the smoothening of the American mind
We have become stupider. Instead of solving problems we have created wholly unnecessary new ones.
Douglas Murray
Europe
September 8, 2022
An American remembrance of the Queen
It says a lot that when I say ‘the Queen’ even American readers know I can mean only one person
Roger Kimball
American Life
May 26, 2022
A day in DC
The Jefferson Memorial still gives off a far better vibe than the Potomac anthills in which the self-important Get Things Done
Bill Kauffman
Politics
January 6, 2022
January 6 was an alarm bell
We should follow the lead of Thomas Jefferson, who recognized Shays’ Rebellion as a symptom of a deeper problem
Daniel McCarthy
Culture
December 30, 2021
Our growing unwillingness to understand the past
Our ability to see more than a couple of inches in front of our faces remains humblingly limited
Douglas Murray
Europe
November 18, 2021
Have Americans got George III all wrong?
George III was a model monarch, whose reputation finally deserves rehabilitation a quarter of a millennium later
Andrew Roberts
Politics
June 26, 2020
Do we erase black history when we take down statues?
Our story is intricately and intimately connected to the ‘original sin’ of our nation’s founding
Kira Davis
Politics
June 10, 2020
The war of the statues is a battle for freedom
If we simply destroy the evidence, we impoverish our heirs’ understanding
Dominic Green
Faith
March 31, 2020
No one in Jefferson’s day suspected the contradiction between commerce and education
Republics have never lived by the commercial principle alone
Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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