Spectator
- May 2019
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18th May 2019
There are many places where a gay Jewish couple wearing yarmulkes wouldn’t feel comfortable walking down the street. I didn’t…
- November 2018
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15th Nov 2018
The dumbest assertion ever issued in the history of American politics was purportedly uttered by Gary Hart to The New…
- August 2017
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26th Aug 2017
In his fateful interview with Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect, Steve Bannon’s remarks about taking a tougher stand on…
- April 2015
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19th Apr 2015
The centrist Democratic party bequeathed to President Barack Obama by Bill Clinton is not the one he will leave to…
- April 2014
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12th Apr 2014
Ihor Miroshnychenko, a parliamentarian from Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party, is an ‘emotional’ man. That is the word that he…
- February 2014
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1st Feb 2014
After all the fuss, the billions spent, the calls for boycotts and so on, the Sochi Winter Olympics will begin…
- August 2013
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24th Aug 2013
This Town By Mark Leibovich Penguin, pp.400, £17.99 Many books have been written about the corruption, venality and incestuousness that…
- July 2013
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20th Jul 2013
‘I embrace Barbie because I’m not threatened by her,’ says my friend Pippa, an early 40-ish antiques dealer from London…
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6th Jul 2013
Alan Turing, the man who developed the Enigma code that saved the Allied war effort, was not merely disregarded by…
- May 2013
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25th May 2013
To the British tabloids, he was ‘the Pied Piper of paedophiles’, the UK’s ‘most wanted child abuser’. But we all…
About James
James Kirchick is a journalist and foreign correspondent currently based in Washington. He has reported from Southern and North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, across the European continent, and the Caucasus. He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington, D.C., a correspondent for The Daily Beast and is a columnist for Tablet. His first book, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age is forthcoming from Yale University Press.
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