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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ryan M. Spaeder |Kevin Cook |Roger Alton |Teresa Mull
Hope springs eternal. With Opening Day 2025 under our belts, however, you cannot shake the feeling that America’s pastime, like its politics, is a two-party system. The Los Angeles Dodgers enter the season as the incumbent World Series champions, having triumphed over the New York Yankees last October. Who expects this year to be much different?
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | John MacArthur |Europe Joining NATO |Owen Matthews |Ryan M. Spaeder
No one should be put off reading Patrick Cockburn’s remarkable biography of his father by its misleading subtitle. “Guerrilla journalism” doesn’t do justice to its subject. The suggestion of irregular warfare from the left underrates Claud Cockburn’s great accomplishments in mainstream politics and journalism and doesn’t begin to embrace the romantic and daring complexity of his life and career.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Owen Matthews |Ryan M. Spaeder |Daniel DePetris |Europe Joining NATO
Ukraine’s President Zelensky was in London last week — as well as Paris, Rome, Berlin and Dubrovnik — asking for NATO membership. In every city, he heard the same “not yet” as he’d received in Washington last month. Some of Kyiv’s western allies believe membership is the only way to guarantee Ukraine’s independence. Russia has never attacked a NATO country, because of the Article 5 guarantee that an attack against one is an attack against all.
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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 | Sam Leith |Ryan M. Spaeder |John MacArthur |Alexander Larman
It was Oprah Winfrey, I think, who said that “if you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.” I read that to mean that if you get famous when you are young — get famous before you have a stable sense of yourself — then you are in trouble.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Sergey Radchenko |Frank Lawton |Ryan M. Spaeder |Michael Evans
In just a few months we will mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The war has resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties, and has left millions displaced. Ukraine’s infrastructure — in particular the energy infrastructure — is in shambles. The costs of recovery will likely be in the trillions of dollars. And still, there is no end in sight. As the war drags on, calls for negotiations are becoming louder.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ryan M. Spaeder |fairiesBy Francis Young |Francis Young |Douglas Murray
To this day, the exact origin of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 is unknown. It may be easy to blame poor old Mrs. O’Leary, though the conspiracy-minded out there speculate that the blaze might have been a deliberately planned event orchestrated by powerful interests to reshape the city for profit and control.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Frank Lawton |Ryan M. Spaeder |Andrew Sullivan |Ian Birrell
What people tend to forget about Jesus Christ is that he killed children. As a five-year-old, Jesus was toddling through a village when a small boy ran past, knocking his shoulder. Taking it like any five-year-old would, Jesus shouted after him “you shall not go further on your way,” at which point the boy fell down dead. Later, when the boy’s parents admonished Joseph and Mary for failing to raise their son properly, Jesus blinded them.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Ryan M. Spaeder
To this day, the exact origin of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 is unknown. It may be easy to blame poor old Mrs. O’Leary, though the conspiracy-minded out there speculate that the blaze might have been a deliberately planned event orchestrated by powerful interests to reshape the city for profit and control.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | James Ball |Sergey Radchenko |Frank Lawton |Ryan M. Spaeder
Yuval Noah Harari has sold more than forty-five million books in sixty-five languages. He is a professor with a PhD from the University of Oxford, has spoken at TED and the World Economic Forum in Davos, and his latest book, Nexus, is considered “erudite, provocative and entertaining” by Rory Stewart and “thought-provoking and so very well reasoned” by Stephen Fry.
