The Spectator World
Dire strait
The history of the global trading system is a story of narrow and vulnerable waterways: the Suez and Panama Canals, the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Straits of Dover and the Skagerrak, which defends the entrance to the Baltic. But none has the power to...
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On the warpath
As The Spectator goes to press, a great fleet of American war machines is whirring through the skies toward the Middle East. More than 50 fighter jets, plus stealth bombers and support aircraft, are joining what Donald Trump called an “armada” of US...
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The death of trust
Bill and Hillary Clinton had a choice: face criminal contempt charges or come clean about their friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. After months of resisting, the former president and his wife have now agreed to testify before the House. Clinton will be...
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Global sheriff
Operation Absolute Resolve, Donald Trump’s rendition of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, was a brilliantly executed coup. The audacious raid did not undermine international law, as many European and Democratic politicians have said. But it did expose the...
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Renewing the intellectual and cultural inheritance of the West.
Introducing The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, the inaugural title of Golden Thread Academic. This new educational imprint will bring students into living contact with the past—not as a museum of artifacts, but as a trove of wisdom,...
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