Juan Villasmil

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Robin Ashenden |Matthew Foldi |Juan Villasmil |Roger Kimball

Has there been a more cataclysmic year for US-Europe relations than 2025? It began with J.D. Vance’s “sermon” to EU leaders at the Munich Security Conference last month, in which he berated Western Europe for its policies on immigration and free speech.

Jan 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | Amy Wilentz |Freddy Gray |Thomas Lambert |Juan Villasmil

For a politician known for his ability to shock, Donald Trump managed to outdo himself with his baseless claim during last year’s presidential debate that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing, butchering and eating household pets. Regardless of this racist lie — new Haitian immigrants to Ohio do not eat people’s pets and are in the main perfectly respectable — Haiti itself is a mess and a good place to flee.

Oct 20, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Juan Villasmil

September was Suicide Prevention Month. This year we should’ve all been aware of that fact. Were we? More than 50,000 Americans died by suicide —more than any year on record. The year before that, the number had reached its highest point in more than 80 years. Our schoolmates, friends, co-workers, and even our family members have been just some of the individuals behind the metric. If we don’t all know someone, we all at least know of someone.

Aug 8, 2024 | thespectator.com | Rupert Christiansen |Freddy Gray |Juan Villasmil |Maria Avdeeva

It’s four years since I gave up opera criticism. The pandemic had struck, I had hit a significant birthday, and notched up three decades at the coal face — a quarter of a century at the Telegraph, and an earlier stint at this address. There were other things I wanted to do and after reviewing something like 2,500 performances, I had said everything I wanted to say, several times over, and knew that it was time for other voices to be heard. Truth be told, I was becoming a little jaded.

Aug 6, 2024 | quillette.com | Kevin Mims |Joan Smith |Juan Villasmil |Doriane Lambelet Coleman

America has produced plenty of high-quality political novels. Few American mystery novelists have ever investigated a real-life murder, and few contemporary Western novelists have ever participated in a cattle drive. But plenty of political professionals—presidents, vice presidents, governors, senators, journalists, campaign managers, political appointees, government insiders—have written political novels, and many of them are very good.