Betting on a papal conclave felt mildly degenerate
I began to suspect that the bookmakers had no idea what they were doing.
Grayson Quay
Grayson Quay is a Spectator World columnist and weekend editor at The Week
Friday
Wednesday
‘Alice’s Restaurant’ and how the hippies blew it
Arlo Guthrie’s rambling, satirical anti-Vietnam ballad still plays every Thanksgiving
Tuesday
What I saw at the Restoring a Nation conference
A new generation of trads damns libertarianism and jokes they’re the ‘based furries’
Tuesday
In defence of Amazon’s The Rings of Power
From our UK edition
Why is Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings show taking so much flak? The way I see it, there are two (mostly separate) factors at play: Tolkien fandom and race. First, Tolkien fandom. Despite the best efforts of the Tolkien Society to ‘queer’ Tolkien studies, the Inkling’s biggest admirers tend to be Christians on the
Monday
Reclaiming the free and capable man
Why have men become so useless?
Tuesday
Game of Thrones was the last water cooler show
While its prequel seems just another tale of a girlboss girlbossing
Thursday
Let’s ban the metaverse and colonize space
Instead of abolishing humanity, we spread it across the stars
Wednesday
Woke Twitter wonders: did Anne Frank have white privilege?
The obvious question
Monday
Bad-faith readings are damaging our discourse
No, a rep didn’t say she would kill her grandchildren to protect her guns
Saturday
Thinking of Seinfeld as Roe v. Wade ends
Pro-life dreams are no longer a sitcom joke
Thursday
The mainline Protestantism clown show
They’ve become agents of woke cultural imperialism
Wednesday
The Uvalde speech Biden should have given
Let’s show the world that freedom and humanity can coexist
Sunday
Here’s to the Christian knuckle-draggers
They held their noses, voted for Trump, and were proven right
Tuesday
A night of pro-life jubilation
At the Supreme Court as Alito’s decision overturning Roe was leaked
Monday
Biden lives long enough to become the villain
He’s ditched any shred of social conservatism in lockstep with his party
Monday
Fighting the culture war will make us poorer
And that’s okay
Saturday
Of partisan razors and Byzantine bakers
A new conservative venture shows our partisanship runs deep
Monday
Searching for a conservative Obama
After Trump the right needs an intellectual, one who cares about ideas and won’t give an inch
Wednesday
The Russian Orthodox Church eyes Ukraine
Putin’s government is waging not just a military campaign but a spiritual one
Thursday
Government by the Very Online
Our politics should stop posting and touch grass
