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1 week ago | 
thespectator.com | Charles Lipson |David Kaufman |Michael Evans |Dave Seminara
Last week’s violent anti-Semitic protest at Stanford is yet another sign of a pernicious climate on many campuses. The immediate targets are Jews and Israel. The larger targets are many of the values we prize in the West. At Stanford, students broke into the university president’s office using hammers and crowbars. They proceeded to barricade themselves inside, destroy the furnishings, and scrawl noxious graffiti there and on the building outside. Some estimates say they caused $700,000 in damages.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |John MacArthur |David Kaufman |Lionel Shriver
In what could find itself deemed a new “war of Northern Aggression,” West Virginia and twenty-one other states are looking to defend themselves against New York for what they allege are climate-related crimes.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Juan P. Villasmil |David Kaufman |Meghan McCain |Charles Moore
It’s now nine days since Donald Trump was elected — and Britain’s proposed man in Washington is yet to get final sign-off. Peter Mandelson was named as the new UK Ambassador to the US last month. The move did not go down well with all in Trumpworld.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Douglas Murray |Juan P. Villasmil |Riva-Melissa Tez |David Kaufman
What’s in a word? “Equality.” “Equity.” It’s the sort of thing that Channel 4 newsreaders find impossible to understand. Surely they’re the same thing, aren’t they? And even if they aren’t then what kind of pedant would keep trying to point it out? What difference does it make anyway? Well, quite a lot. Potentially the difference between your home burning down and it not burning down. It’s important that people who come to your burning home look like you.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Sacerdoti |Kate Andrews |David Kaufman |Justin Brierley
As plans for a ceasefire were announced on Wednesday night, videos of Gazans celebrating with glee made their way onto international news broadcasts. The celebrations were distinctive in style, and looked nothing like those of a people experiencing the end of a genocide. Many an anchor and analyst overlooked the detail, but we would all do well to pay attention to what the revelers were actually showing and telling us.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Sacerdoti |Kate Andrews |David Kaufman |Justin Brierley
As plans for a ceasefire were announced on Wednesday night, videos of Gazans celebrating with glee made their way onto international news broadcasts. The celebrations were distinctive in style, and looked nothing like those of a people experiencing the end of a genocide. Many an anchor and analyst overlooked the detail, but we would all do well to pay attention to what the revelers were actually showing and telling us.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | David Kaufman
In the end, the only choice Israel can make is no choice at all. After nearly 500 days of war in Gaza – nearly 100 of its citizens still trapped in Hamas terror tunnels – the time to end the fighting has come, notwithstanding any last-minute delays as Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the terrorists of backtracking. Not because it is necessarily the right time or right thing to do – but because it is the only thing to do.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Sacerdoti |Kate Andrews |David Kaufman |Anatol Lieven
After fifteen grueling months of war and negotiation, a ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas has been brokered, following intensive diplomatic activity led by the United States, Qatar and Egypt. Announced this afternoon, the deal marks a critical yet deeply contentious milestone in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Kate Andrews |Juan P. Villasmil |David Kaufman
President Joe Biden has taken actions that will make former and President-elect Donald Trump’s transition into the White House difficult, slowing him down with federal rules and other roadblocks, according to inside sources and Trump himself. Last week, Trump talked to reporters outside of Mar-a-Lago about the departing Biden administration. “They’re trying everything they can to make things more difficult,” Trump said.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Sacerdoti |Svitlana Morenets |David Kaufman |Casey Babb
As reports swirl of an imminent ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, Israel stands at a crossroads, grappling with the profound dilemmas that such a deal entails. While the full details of the agreement remain unknown until officially announced, the fragments emerging suggest a complex and controversial arrangement that raises difficult questions: How much is Israel willing to concede for the return of hostages? And what price, in lives and security, will the nation pay in the future?
