Joel Kotkin thinks it’s no longer the traditional standard of Left vs. Right that defines the political landscape. In New Geography, Kotkin argues that the real divide is between those residing in the tangible world of making, using and growing real things and those floating in the incorporeal world of media and digital transactions.
In his newly released memoirs, U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter presents himself as a victim, magically transforming his copious vices into virtues. In Spectator US, Dominic Green tells how a colluding media spins the story of a corrupt President and his sleazy son into one of absolution and redemption.
Pope Francis’ silence over the dismantling of a Catholic Church in China is unsettling. Long-time Vatican-watcher Damian Thompson wonders if the Pope could be an agent of Beijing. In Spectator US, Thompson notes that the Pontiff’s toxic resentment of the U.S. means he has never met a dictator he didn’t like.
The media, politicians, progressive intellectuals and the business elite continue to advance the idea that the U.S. is an apartheid regime, requiring reparations for minorities and open discrimination against whites. In Spiked, Joel Kotkin cites statistics refuting this ill-conceived telling of American history and discusses the threats the racialized narrative poses to social peace.
Charges of “institutional racism” are the evidence-free, all-purpose tool for ending meaningful discussion about disparities between ethnic groups. In Unherd, Douglas Murray argues that the problem with such accusations is not just their predictability and inaccuracy, but also that they distract from genuine attempts to investigate the complex questions surrounding race.
In his newly released memoirs, U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter presents himself as a victim, magically transforming his copious vices into virtues. In Spectator US, Dominic Green tells how a colluding media spins the story of a corrupt President and his sleazy son into one of absolution and redemption.
Pope Francis’ silence over the dismantling of a Catholic Church in China is unsettling. Long-time Vatican-watcher Damian Thompson wonders if the Pope could be an agent of Beijing. In Spectator US, Thompson notes that the Pontiff’s toxic resentment of the U.S. means he has never met a dictator he didn’t like.
The media, politicians, progressive intellectuals and the business elite continue to advance the idea that the U.S. is an apartheid regime, requiring reparations for minorities and open discrimination against whites. In Spiked, Joel Kotkin cites statistics refuting this ill-conceived telling of American history and discusses the threats the racialized narrative poses to social peace.
Charges of “institutional racism” are the evidence-free, all-purpose tool for ending meaningful discussion about disparities between ethnic groups. In Unherd, Douglas Murray argues that the problem with such accusations is not just their predictability and inaccuracy, but also that they distract from genuine attempts to investigate the complex questions surrounding race.
