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Nov 21, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Margaret Mitchell
"The first Thanksgiving 1621" painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. Universal Images Group via Getty Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Since America’s days of explorers, pilgrims and colonists, we have shown gratitude for the land and everything it sustains — the harvest, our lives, our families — by celebrating Thanksgiving.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Charles Lipson |John Keiger |Jonathan Spyer |Margaret Mitchell
After Thursday’s fiasco in Atlanta, Joe Biden faces two hard choices. The hardest — and grimmest — is whether to stay in the race. Staying in means ignoring the rising chorus of calls to withdraw, not from the opposing party but from flaks on his own side, led by the New York Times. The only groups that haven’t issued that call, so far, are his party’s leadership on Capitol Hill and the two former Democratic presidents.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | John Keiger |Jonathan Spyer |Margaret Mitchell |Toby Harnden
There is one big winner from the first round of the French legislative elections — and several big losers. The winner is the Rassemblement National (National Rally) with 33 percent of voters backing its candidates or their allies — on a turnout of 67 percent, the highest in decades. The RN now has a fighting chance of forming a working government from July 7.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Spyer |Margaret Mitchell |Toby Harnden |Douglas Murray
In Israel currently, people are waiting for a possible escalation in the north. The United States, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Russia and the Netherlands have called on their citizens in Lebanon to leave the country. Western embassies in Lebanon are exploring the coastal area to locate possible points from where an evacuation by sea could be carried out.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Margaret Mitchell |Toby Harnden |Douglas Murray |Morgan Marietta
Joe Biden has a cold. That was the desperate message sent out by sources close to the president halfway through Thursday night’s painful debate. Biden’s sick-note recalls the first televised debate in 1960, when the incumbent vice president and Republican nominee Richard Nixon, recently hospitalized and still recovering from a staph infection, appeared pale and sickly beside the tanned, waspy Democrat John F. Kennedy who had the advantage of makeup on his side.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Charles Lipson |John Keiger |Jonathan Spyer |Margaret Mitchell
Hulu, June 27America loves a misanthropic, depressive chef. How else would we know the chef is a real artist? The Bear returns for its third season with the trailer promising lots of arguing, screw-ups, failures and everything else you’ve come to expect from the beloved show. We’re not sure why you would take a perfectly good beef-sandwich shop in Chicago and try to turn it into a Michelin-starred restaurant, but we hope Carmy and the gang give us some sort of good reason.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Ben Domenech |Roger Kimball |Margaret Mitchell
British foreign secretary David Cameron is currently in Washington, urging politicians to back support for Ukraine. Congress is ensuring a stalemate over $95 billion of aid including funds for Kyiv’s struggle against their Russian invaders. Lord Cameron used an article in the DC websitethe Hill to urge Congress to support Ukraine with more funding. He wrote:I believe our joint history shows the folly of giving in to tyrants in Europe who believe in redrawing boundaries by force.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Ben Domenech |Roger Kimball |Margaret Mitchell
Manchester, New Hampshire“OK, who here is not a voter in New Hampshire?” asked Marianne Williamson as she took the microphone. Almost everyone in the small, quarter-full auditorium at Manchester Community College raised a hand. “Well, that’s depressing,” said Marianne. Williamson carries herself with a certain grandiosity. She has that quasi-aristocratic bearing that comes from decades of being attractive, famous, well-off and radical.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Margaret Mitchell |Alexander Larman |Limor Simhony Philpott
House Republicans successfully impeached Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by a 214-213 vote on Tuesday after an initial failed attempt last week. Mayorkas is the first cabinet official to be impeached since 1876. Speaker Mike Johnson said Mayorkas “deserves to be impeached,” arguing that Mayorkas lied to Congress, refused to comply with federal immigration law and violated his oath of office.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Margaret Mitchell |Alexander Larman |Limor Simhony Philpott
What is decadence? In popular usage, it is synonymous with “excess,” especially of a sensual or appetitive nature. I am not sure what it means that we encounter the word most often these days in connection highly caloric chocolate confections. Perhaps such linguistic degradation, in which serious things are reformulated in an atmosphere of ironic depreciation, is one sign we live in a decadent age.
