Snowshoeing with septuagenarians
Finding my ikigai on Japan’s frozen edges
Spectator Life
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August 3, 2025
Sydney Sweeney, Gwyneth Paltrow and the misogynists
The American Eagle ad campaign is a societal Rorschach test
July 24, 2025
Trump is in a good mood. What’s up?
While he couldn’t help but rub in the terms of the Columbia settlement, Trump also had some positive reflections to share
The doctor will kill you now
The organ-transplant industry is the latest to be captured by harmful progressive do-gooderism
July 22, 2025
Why Trump’s ‘Washington Whatevers’ threat matters
It would be a final stake in the heart of the wokeness of the summer of 2020
July 21, 2025
The $130 billion train that couldn’t
California’s High Speed Rail is only the latest blue-state infrastructure failure
America’s top medical schools still hire by race
The scalpel doesn’t care what ethnicity holds it. The diagnosis doesn’t change depending on your cultural background
July 20, 2025
Dive bars will save the West
They’re bastions of authenticity in performative times
July 18, 2025
Shane Gillis: MVP of the ESPYs
The comedian saved the award show
July 17, 2025
Axing the Department of Education will improve education
Money and choices for students, not for Washington bureaucrats
July 16, 2025
Exploring Edinburgh, from Princes Street to Pitlochry
City chic to Highlands retreat
July 15, 2025
California is doomed
It’s almost beyond belief that the state used to be a glorious paradise of tennis-playing, churchgoing, hard-working patriotic Republicans
Eric Trump is storming the cider industry
The ciders are delicious – and with names like ‘Passionate Patriot IPA,’ a big hit with Trump fans
How to café hop like a Parisian
Eating well in the Marais, where several other museums reside, is a challenge
‘I don’t build new restaurants’: an interview with Tyler Florence
Throughout a widely varied career, the TV chef’s approach hasn’t changed
My zucchini seedling scheme
The plants’ robust stems and glossy leaves look almost too healthy
An epic journey on horseback through Kyrgyzstan’s mountains
Like so many, I first learned of the place because of Alexandra Tolstoy
July 14, 2025
Plastic-free paradise
How Kerala is redefining responsible tourism
July 13, 2025
The Ten Commandments of Texas
It’s a bold middle finger to true civil libertarians
July 12, 2025
The real scandal of Zohran Mamdani’s college application
The hacked data – that set off a firestorm at The New York Times – revealed colleges are still discriminating by race
July 11, 2025
The Washington Post can’t cancel John McEnroe
Columnist Sally Jenkins accused him of ‘belching up words’
July 8, 2025
The last bullfighters
In France, toreros fight bulls and ecosocialists
July 7, 2025
RFK Jr. faces down M&M’s
Americans need to be as health and food conscious as Europeans for his food dye-banning plan to work
July 4, 2025
Kardashian clones have taken over
Reality TV star Khloe has finally listed all the work she has had done
July 3, 2025
Chet Sharma: chef, DJ, PhD
The experimental culinarian is coming to New York
July 1, 2025
Penn finally accepts that Lia Thomas is a biological man
This was not a moral epiphany. It was a forced retreat
June 28, 2025
I tensed my bow as the bull elk stared at me
Your pursuit of the elk will test your body, your mind, your gear and your grit
June 20, 2025
It’s time to bid adieu to Obamacare
Federal spending on the program was $43 billion in 2019 and is projected to be $143 billion in 2025
June 11, 2025
Randi Weingarten’s anti-Trump national uprising sounds ‘mostly peaceful’
AFT organized protests – No Kings – will take place this Saturday in nearly 2,000 municipalities
