US Politics
The degrading cynicism of Joe Biden
While Trump was firm but measured, Biden’s response was to consistently stoke fear of death
Why free market think tanks are neither evil nor geniuses
Kurt Andersen’s ‘Evil Geniuses’ is a one-sided guide to the imminent future
Batting for Biden: the BBC and the US election
The BBC has been wholly partisan in its coverage of Donald Trump ever since he was elected
American puritanism lives on
Judge not a sext lest your sexts be judged
Hail to the Chief
The expansion of executive power in America
Harris vs Pence: What did we learn from the vice presidential debate?
The Critic’s political and US editors discuss with Chris Buskirk, editor of American Greatness
The unlikely miracle of Trump’s presidency
Trump’s inability to articulate any substantive thought renders a respected journalist’s new book unreadable
Trump v Biden: what did we learn from the first presidential debate?
The Critic’s US editor spoke to the publisher and editor of American Greatness, Chris Buskirk
And the horse you rode in on
The first US presidential TV debate, Cleveland, Ohio
Democrats are right to raise questions about Amy Coney Barrett
Will the Supreme Court’s new justice be able to commit to American secularism?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone