America

Viktor Orbán's Texas rodeo

6 August 2022 1:35 am

Say what you want about Viktor Orbán, but he gives a good speech. His address on Thursday in Dallas on…

Nancy Pelosi knows how much Taiwan matters

2 August 2022 10:24 pm

In the coming hours, Nancy Pelosi is expected to arrive in Taiwan. The plane that is thought to be carrying…

Remembering Gore Vidal

31 July 2022 10:00 pm

Fourteen years ago, my then boss, Matt d’Ancona sent me off to interview Gore Vidal. I’ll always be grateful to…

In defence of country-pop

30 July 2022 9:00 am

Sam Kriss on why country-pop is the most modern music there is

As cool and refreshing as a selection of sorbets: RA's Milton Avery show reviewed

30 July 2022 9:00 am

‘I like the way he puts on paint,’ Milton Avery said about Matisse in 1953, but that was as much…

Is the US in recession?

29 July 2022 1:27 am

There’s an almighty debate ongoing in the US about what exactly a ‘recession’ is. Regardless of semantics, the numbers are…

January 6 has turned Trump fans into NeverTrumpers

26 July 2022 4:00 pm

The 6 January hearings are a bit of a kangaroo court, since no one is trying to poke holes in…

Is the US thinking straight about Taiwan?

26 July 2022 12:46 am

As the Tory leadership candidates tussle over China, it is well worth reading this essay by the US strategist Hal…

Trump’s return: is the Bad Orange Man on his way back to the White House?

23 July 2022 9:00 am

Is he about to stage his comeback?

Prince Harry should stop lecturing Americans

19 July 2022 4:00 pm

Washington, DC Prince Harry is once again mouthing off about American politics despite a rudimentary understanding – at best – of…

Shouldn't we feel sorry for Hunter Biden?

16 July 2022 9:00 am

Scandal is such a wonderful driver of human emotions. Just think of the number of things you get to feel…

The problem with being anti-woke

12 July 2022 3:00 pm

I’m going to do something that will likely annoy you, dear reader: I am going to make an argument about a…

Why do we only care about American abortion rights?

2 July 2022 4:50 pm

In the week since Roe vs Wade was overturned, you’ve hardly been able to switch on the news or open…

Will Hispanic conservatives transform US politics?

2 July 2022 9:00 am

If you had to take a guess on which American political party would produce the first Mexican-born Congresswoman, which one…

Does Joe Biden want to protect women’s rights – or his majority?

2 July 2022 9:00 am

Does Joe Biden want to protect women’s rights – or his majority?

The law of unintended consequences

2 July 2022 9:00 am

When I awoke the other morning and switched on my radio, the airwaves were alive with the sound of furious,…

America’s abortion debate isn’t coming to Britain

29 June 2022 12:44 am

Politicians are lining up to condemn the US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. Activists are warning us that…

It’s time to trust democracy again after Roe v. Wade

26 June 2022 4:30 pm

Progressive outrage greeted this week’s US Supreme Court majority decision which overturned Roe v. Wade. ‘Extreme ideology,’ thundered Joe Biden. It was ‘a…

Is there a British version of America’s attachment to guns?

19 June 2022 6:00 pm

Now that the horror of the Uvalde school shooting in Texas has begun to ebb away, as it always does,…

Welcome to the age of post-Covid nihilism

8 June 2022 8:59 pm

Washington, DC Amid the recent orgy of violence across America, it was the carjackings that finally got me. Lost amid all…

Lionel Shriver on mass shootings, gun control and American carnage

30 May 2022 1:18 am

This is an edited transcript of a conversation between Freddy Gray and Lionel Shriver on The Spectator’s Americano podcast, which you…

How profitable are Britain’s biggest oil companies?

28 May 2022 9:00 am

A slip of the tongue George W. Bush condemned a political system where one man could wage a ‘brutal and…

The dishonesty of how we respond to tragedies

21 May 2022 9:00 am

It isn’t hard to notice that some crimes are more important than others. Or at least more politically advantageous. It…

What is Black Lives Matter?

20 May 2022 12:17 am

It’s hard not to admire Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter foundation. Under fire over yet another…

BLM is dying but it’s legacy lives on

19 May 2022 3:20 am

It can be hard to remember just how strange things were during the pandemic. Every day the front pages covered…