The journalist’s journalist: the irrepressible Claud Cockburn
After a distinguished spell on the Times, Cockburn launched The Week in 1933, whose scoops on Nazi Germany became essential reading for politicians, diplomats and journalists alike
How — and why — the Democrats ignored the will of the people… again
See the wheels come off the Democratic machine as the party leader (who is also the current US president) displays…
Why do neoliberals get let off the Iraq War hook?
Given the worldwide climate of political intolerance, I often try to deflect hostility by prefacing my comments with the old…
The left’s strangled language on Israel and Gaza
As a left-wing sympathizer to the Palestinian cause, I cringed when I heard reports that college students around the country,…
What liberal America gets wrong about Trump supporters
Hillary Clinton normally speaks in carefully crafted bromides, so when I read in the New York Post about her risqué suggestion during…
Why ‘woke’ doesn’t have the moral high ground
The much-overused word “woke” — basically meaning “to be at all moments of the day and night conscious of racial…
Meet the aristocrat plotting Macron’s downfall
The aristocrat trying to bring down Macron
America’s woke assault on English
Each time an American institution commits a new corruption of the English language in the name of ‘social justice,’ US wire services, assisted…
Randi Weingarten isn’t going anywhere
It was eerily warm in New York the day before the midterm elections, and the president of the American Federation…
Will Mélenchon upend the French political establishment?
How much of a threat to Macron is France’s new left coalition?
The descent of New York
Aggression is everywhere in New York
Joe Biden is winning
By the middle of January, I’d read some version of the headline “Biden Can Still Rescue His Presidency” so many…
Biden isn't FDR
With Biden sliding to 38 per cent approval in the polls, it’s finally time for everyone to stop calling him…
You can't keep an American exceptionalist down
Like millions of other Americans I was riveted by the images of chaos and despair at the Kabul airport as US…
The decline of American journalism
The US press has lost its way
Is Trump more left-wing than Biden?
Trump sometimes appears more progressive than Biden
Is Trump more left-wing than Biden?
Just when it seemed that Donald Trump had finally committed political suicide — his notion of injecting disinfectant to cure…
How Graham Greene earned The Spectator a place in cinematic history
How Graham Greene earned The Spectator a place in cinematic history
In this golden age of corruption, it takes much courage to be a whistleblower
Midway through Crisis of Conscience, the massive new compendium about US whistleblowers by the journalist Tom Mueller, I wanted to…
Alfred Dreyfus is being erased all over again
In London to promote a book, I received an invitation to a secret screening of An Officer and a Spy,…
Elizabeth Warren is the Hillary Clinton of 2020
This article is in The Spectator’s November 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. How did Elizabeth Warren, a left-wing populist, become the candidate…
Why won’t the Democrats impeach Trump?
New York For leftist anti-Trumpers like me, the Mueller report was initially a godsend, though not for the more obvious…
Why won’t the Democrats impeach Trump?
For leftist anti-Trumpers like me, the Mueller report was initially a godsend, though not for the more obvious reasons. I…
Jeff Bezos isn’t a resistance hero – he’s a ruthless monopolist
It is tempting to view the blow-up between Amazon’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos and David Pecker, publisher of the tabloid…
The death of American civility
My father, an avowed liberal, taught me old-school manners: hold the door and give up your seat for ladies; stand…
