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DIARY

Marco rules • Will the Donroe Doctrine turn Rubio into the president-in-waiting?

Predicament

Enemy lines • America’s new war on drugs will not be easily won

Responsibility to project • Maduro’s capture is bad and good news for the Kremlin

ANCIENT AND MODERN • Shame and infamy

Latin rights • Immigration is foreign policy now

The generation game • Hats off to the young people resisting the sickness of their peers

The plot against J.D. Vance

The learing explosion

Mullah time • What Trump’s coup in Venezuela means for Iran

SPECTATOR ACADEMY READING LIST • Each issue, we ask a different contributor to recommend ten books every American should read to revive their minds and our shared culture. Here are Michael P. Gibson’s.

Liaisons dangereuses • Why are the French so interested in the Epstein saga?

Billionaires or bust • The world needs the super-rich more than ever

Sex strike • We’re in the worst of all romantic worlds

What is anti-Semitic?

Trump can do wrong

Dial-a-drone • Inside the cutting-edge Ukrainian arms website

Goodbye, Dad

Bugs of war • How ticks became bioweapons

Power game • Caracas was a victory of American innovation

Mistaken identity • The gender hydra is about technology, not ideology

Naked truth • AI porn will spawn a nation of addicts

Dark star • Alexander Larman salutes the great, underestimated Richard Yates

Florida girl done good

Norwegian good

How the West can win

The curse of Godot • ‘Big name’ stars on Broadway are damaging theater, Keith McNally tells Zack Christenson

Soviet nostalgia

Small wonders

The boy-genius

Lack of sensibility

Knowledge Revises

Palm life

Havana life

American life

Prejudices

Hot air • ‘Corporate agriculture’ is wrong about cows and methane

I’m lovin’ it • How I lost 50lbs eating at McDonald’s

In vino veritas

Cape expectations • Southern Africa is full of surprises

Coffee machines

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