Why the rich fall for bullshit therapy
It sounds like a Netflix thriller. First, the mysterious death: an aging high-street fashion mogul falls to his death from a scenic coastal precipice while…
The deep-state cult of Leo Strauss
Have you ever noticed that there seems to be something shadowy at the heart of American conservatism? A secret club that has infiltrated Ivy League lecture halls and the corridors…
Why you can’t crush populism
The great French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand remarked about the Bourbons after the French Revolution that they had “learnt nothing and forgotten nothing”. We might say the same about…
The triumph of Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham, the senior US senator from South Carolina, died unexpectedly on Saturday, aged 71. This being Anno Domini 2026, the famously hawkish Republican’s demise was greeted with open joy…
Trump’s plan for Nato 3.0
The Nato summit in Ankara was a showcase of Turkish hospitality and ruthless authoritarian efficiency. Journalists were showered with Turkish delights, perfumes, and porcelain coffee cups, and even Turkey’s cats…
Trump’s plan for Nato 3.0
The Nato summit in Ankara was a showcase of Turkish hospitality and ruthless authoritarian efficiency. Journalists were showered with Turkish delights, perfumes, and porcelain coffee cups, and even Turkey’s cats…
The end of going out
If you want the Smashburger, in New York City you’re in luck, because suddenly there’s a Smashburger joint every other block. If you want gelato, you’re also in luck, because…
Beware apocalypse fever
Apocalypse season is upon us again, bringing with it another round of claims that something or other is going to bring industrial civilization crashing down around us. Indeed, a case…
Why the Left canceled air-con
At their sweltering zeniths, British heatwaves exert strange and intriguing thermodynamic effects. Asphalt turns to liquid. Air becomes flame. Wheelie bins transubstantiate into single-player swimming pools. How, as temperatures rise…
Count Binface: a serious fool
Nothing better illustrates the state we are in than the fact that this summer the country’s most convincing democrat is a pseudo-aristocrat cosplaying as a receptacle for household waste. Count…
Justice for ‘Citizen Vigilante’?
“You’re going to Mount Vernon?” asks my Uber driver, Mohammed, in broken English, picking me up from President Trump’s very disappointing Great American State Fair over the Fourth of July…