Garrett Moore

Jan 10, 2025 | thespectator.com | Lionel Shriver |Joel Kotkin |Rory Sutherland |Garrett Moore

January is the ideal month for gaining a sense of perspective. I’m increasingly convinced that the “climate emergency” is another social mania we’ll look back on with: “J-eez, what was that about?” Why? The paradigm displays the classic anthropocentrism of our era. As organized religion declines, we replace God with humanity. Arrogating to our species the power to dial global temperature up or down is typically arrogant (see: pride, goeth, fall).

Jan 9, 2025 | thespectator.com | Ross Clark |Dave Seminara |Rory Sutherland |Garrett Moore

It is like a Hollywood disaster movie with a difference: it really is happening close to Hollywood, and the stars involved, such as James Woods and Eugene Levy, aren’t acting — they really are fleeing their homes as a wildfire singes residential areas in the Pacific Palisades area on the north-west fringe of Los Angeles. Several film premieres have been canceled, along with the nomination ceremony for the Screen Actors Guild awards.

Nov 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Rod Liddle |Freddy Gray |Amelia Butler-Gallie |Garrett Moore

Grade: D+Ah, the original Linkin Park, except even more spavined. MC5 came outta Detroit in the mid 1960s and their shrieking blues metal ur-punk was afforded unnecessary respect because of their agitprop politics. Sucking up to the Black Panthers and running a bit foul of the law can do wonders for a slightly below-average blues band whose songs had energy and attitude — but nothing else.

Nov 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Amelia Butler-Gallie |Freddy Gray |Garrett Moore |Ben Domenech

“I have been instructed to tell you that what you are proposing is entirely impossible. Nevertheless, in Iran, even the totally impossible becomes possible at times.” Such was the mysterious riddle that confronted the English art dealer Oliver Hoare as he sat across from an Iranian contact in Paris in 1992. He had just presented a madcap plan: to reunite the state of Iran with one of its most prized but long-lost manuscripts.

Nov 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Amelia Butler-Gallie |Garrett Moore |Ben Domenech

Welcome to the United States of Disruption. From his “Winter White House” in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Donald Trump has been busy lobbing hand-grenade cabinet appointments in the direction of Washington and watching on happily as each one blows up in a variety of stunning ways. Explosiveness is the point. “Personnel is policy,” Trump’s transition team like to tell reporters with a wink.