The Spectator
The Spectator, Katherine Dee, Peachy Keenan, Roger Kimball, Sarah Beth Spraggins, Cockburn | The SpectatorThe oldest magazine in the English language. In the UK since 1828, in the US since 2018.
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Then-senator Kyrsten Sinema in 2024 (Getty)
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Why does TikTok hype extreme violence?
Everybody’s worried that nobody reads and that the people who do are reading smut. In great quantities, it should be said, but still smut. Since the advent of the novel, our arbiters of morality have made it known that if a book has even a...
Dario Amodei’s wife emailed Epstein for sex blog seed round
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How do you conceal yourself from the all-seeing-eye of the internet? Being married to the founder of an AI giant helps, apparently. A Wall Street Journal article this week delves into Cami Clark, the wif...
The Republican party’s secret weapons
Do the Republicans have a secret weapon they can deploy in the midterms? In fact, I think they have two weapons, one sort-of-secret, the other out in the open but somehow not quite recognized. “That’s good,” you say, if (faute de mieux) you...
The revenge of Tony P
Tony P (Instagram)
DC influencer Tony P has returned to the spotlight, in a Washingtonian profile titled “Guess What? Tony P Hates You, Too.” Cockburn would be remiss not to point out that The Spectator was first to cover Tony P’s rise to...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Internet ethnographer. I want to talk to you if you grew up with unrestricted access to the Internet. Tech correspondent at The Spectator. Staff Critic at Tablet. Bylines in The Dispatch, WSJ, The New York Times, and Politico. Accepting commissions.
Author, "Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War. Wife supremacist. California native on stolen lands. On X @keenanpeachy.
Roger Kimball is the Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books.
Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip. Cockburn sends a twice-weekly newsletter on Tuesdays and Fridays containing DC’s most whispered-about stories. Send tips and party invites to [email protected].
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