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Americano: Should America have a Monarch?
Freddy Gray talks to writer and philosopher Curtis Yarvin about how Alexander Hamilton was America's Napoleon, why Putin is more of a royal than King Charles, and why Yarvin admires FDR.
Yarvin is …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Americano: What's this revolution really about?
Freddy Gray speaks to the journalist Nellie Bowles about her new book: Morning after the Revolution: Dispatches from the wrong side of History. As someone who had fit into the progressive umbrella, h…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Slavoj Zizek, Angus Colwell, Svitlana Morenets, Cindy Yu, and Philip Hensher
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Philosopher Slavoj Zizek takes us through his diary including his Britney Spears Theory of Action (1:08); Angus Colwell reports from the front line of the pro-Pales…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Women With Balls: Lisa Cameron
Lisa Cameron was born in Glasgow and grew up in East Kilbride, the constituency she now represents. After three elections under the SNP, she memorably defected to the Scottish Conservatives in 2023. …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
The Edition: how universities raised a generation of activists
This week:
On Monday, tents sprung up at Oxford and Cambridge as part of a global, pro-Palestinian student protest which began at Columbia University. In his cover piece, Yascha Mounk, a professor a…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
The Book Club: Jackie Kay
This week, my guest on the Book Club podcast is the poet Jackie Kay, whose magnificent new book May Day combines elegy and celebration. She tells me about her adoptive parents – a communist trade uni…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Table Talk: Michael Zee
Michael Zee is an author, cook and the creator of SymmetryBreakfast, which started as an Instagram account, before amassing over 670,000 followers and becoming one of the ‘most popular food books of …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Americano: Is Donald Trump really going to be a dictator?
Freddy speaks to Norman Ornstein, political scientist and emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. They discuss the possibility of Donald Trump becoming a dictator, his ongoing court ca…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Sean Thomas, Kara Kennedy, Philip Hensher, Damian Thompson and Toby Young
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Sean Thomas worries that Paris has lost some of its charm (1:21); Kara Kennedy reports on US-style opioids arriving in Britain (8:43); Philip Hensher describes how …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Americano: is the West heading towards annihilation?
Freddy speaks to Victor Davis Hanson, classicist, military historian and political commentator.
They discuss his new book The End of Everything, and ask whether the west should be taking note of his…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago