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2 months ago | 
wakeuptopolitics.com | Gabe Fleisher |Andrew Sullivan
A lot of people — myself included, and maybe you too! — have been talking about constitutional crises lately:In a newsletter last week, I laid out my standard for when I’ll use that label: if the executive branch ever tries to do something, the judicial branch says it can’t, and the executive branch does the thing anyways, openly ignoring the courts and undermining the rule of law.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Nat Segnit |Owen Matthews |Edward Howell |Andrew Sullivan
The American essayist Fredric Jameson died recently. One of his most famous quips (sometimes wrongly attributed to me) holds today more than ever: it is easier for us to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. What if we apply the same logic to Jameson himself?
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Ben Domenech |Francis Pike |Andrew Sullivan
Some experts believe that Donald Trump is on course to win a bigger share of the African American vote in 2024 than any previous Republican presidential candidate. You can’t trust experts. A number of highly-informed pundits made the same prediction in 2020 — and Joe Biden ended up winning 90 percent of black voters that year. Kamala Harris, as the vice president of an unpopular administration, may struggle to reach that number.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Freddy Gray |Francis Pike |Andrew Sullivan
I don’t understand why Liz Cheney thinks we would trust Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff with our children when we know there’s a non-zero possibility that the would-be first gentleman will attempt to knock up our nanny, but apparently that’s what they’re going with on the campaign trail these days. For years, I’ve suggested an essential method to deciding who to support for president would be based on who you trusted to run a McDonald’s for a day or watch your children for an afternoon.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ryan M. Spaeder |John MacArthur |Freddy Gray |Andrew Sullivan
A bipartisan House task force released an initial report detailing the calamitous security failures preceding the first failed assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump earlier this year. The failures are “stunning,” one of the staffers involved with its drafting told The Spectator. “Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened,” the report says.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Chilton Williamson |Freddy Gray |Andrew Sullivan |Roger Kimball
The Joy of Sex, by the appropriately named Alex Comfort, was a bestselling illustrated sex manual published in 1972 and released in a new edition in 2008. In 2024, anyone with sufficient imagination to describe and illustrate The Joy of Politics would beat out Elon Musk in the race to become the world’s first trillionaire.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Billy McMorris |Freddy Gray |Andrew Sullivan |Alexander Larman
Close your eyes. Picture an elementary school orchestra on a school bus. All instruments are plastic recorders. Now picture the school bus hurtling into a warehouse filled with barn owls. Open your eyes. Welcome to my dinner table. The priest assured us he wanted to experience family life at its fullest. No need for a special meal, he said (we will pretend that we eat duck every week). No need to clean (fat chance).
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | William Newton |Freddy Gray |Andrew Sullivan |Alexander Larman
I was standing in front of “A Soldier’s Journey,” the centerpiece of the new National World War One Memorial in Washington, DC, chatting with its creator, sculptor Sabin Howard, when I raised a question. “So, are you the new Saint-Gaudens?” I asked. “No! No, God no!” exclaimed Howard. “That guy sucks.”Sabin Howard is nothing if not direct in expressing his opinions, which are refreshingly free of the artspeak that saturates most of the contemporary art world.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Cosmo Landesman |Freddy Gray |Andrew Sullivan |Harry Cluff
When an old friend says to you, “we must meet up for lunch sometime,” you can be sure of one thing: you will never meet for lunch. Why? Because your friendship is over. The clue is in the word “sometime.” It’s a rain check that never gets cashed. It’s what friends say to each other when they feel obliged to see a friend they don’t really want to see — but they don’t want to dump either.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Esme Bright |Freddy Gray |Andrew Sullivan |Philip Womack
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.” The final installment of Deborah Levy’s “Living” biographies, Real Estate, begins with this quote from the artist Georgia O’Keefe.
