Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives By Michael Joseph Gross (Dutton, 480 pages, $35) I was never an athlete. Or at least I never thought of myself as one. If you were a boy in Queens when...
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Wed, 09 Apr 2025 02:16:08 +0000As I write, President Donald J. Trump is wrapping up his first month as 47. He already has fixed so much that we may wonder whether, if he maintains his first month’s tempo, he will have anything left to fix...
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Wed, 09 Apr 2025 02:05:24 +0000Russia is positioning forces for a major spring offensive all along Ukraine’s front line, which may last well into the summer, according to many analysts. Putin wants to fully control at least three of Ukraine’s four eastern regions prior to...
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Wed, 09 Apr 2025 02:05:22 +0000President Donald Trump’s goal of reciprocal trade is a false promise, based neither on economic laws nor market reality. His arbitrary tariffs are causing an immediate meltdown of the world’s financial markets and a loss of confidence in the American...
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Wed, 09 Apr 2025 02:05:20 +0000National Review published a blog post this week titled “The Feminism Phantasm.” The post takes aim at a new wave of right-wing antifeminist rhetoric — some of which goes so far as to blame civilizational decline on women gaining the right...
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Wed, 09 Apr 2025 02:05:17 +0000The picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sitting in first class en route to a “Fighting Oligarchy” rally hosted by Bernie Sanders tells a thousand words. A few of those words? People who shout the loudest about fighting for “the people” rarely...
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Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:12:31 +0000South Korea’s dismal birth rate of 0.75 children per woman is pushing the government to encourage dating and marriage. (READ MORE: Marriage Is the Antidote to Societal Decay) In this episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Ellie Gardey Holmes and...
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Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:33:23 +0000WASHINGTON — “Don’t be a PANICAN,” President Donald Trump cautioned on social media. Critics have questioned the universal tariffs he unleashed last week, and Americans have had to steel themselves before checking the balance of their 401(k)s. The Trump tariffs...
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Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:58:06 +0000As public opinion turns against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and as the Trump administration wields its sword against such initiatives, many universities are publicly stating that they will back down from DEI in certain respects. Yet the nation’s top...
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Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:31:31 +0000The Dream Factory: that’s what they used to call Hollywood. As the long-forgotten silent-movie star Norma Desmond sings in the 1991 musical Sunset Boulevard: “We taught the world new ways to dream.” To people of my parents’ generation, born in...
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