Don’t let Serena bully you into taking the fat shot
If the queen of tennis can no longer nail diet and exercise 101, then what hope for us mere mortals?
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, style, travel, food and property, as well as where to go and what to see.
September 9, 2025
Inside the cult of Equinox
Fueled by a mysterious marketing campaign, the gym now has more than 100 outposts
Locatelli has entered the premier league of museum dining
The best Italian chefs walk the line between history and the future
Confessions of a bear hunter
I’d never killed one before. I’d hunted other animals: deer, rabbits, doves, ducks, turkeys and so on
September 7, 2025
Why is ESPN ruining NFL RedZone?
We were promised seven hours of commercial-free football. Enter greedy executives…
September 6, 2025
Why America’s schools are failing
Teachers have been trained in programs heavily influenced by an ideology that rejects truth
August 30, 2025
The students bullied into being woke
Eighty-eight percent of students admitted they ‘have pretended to hold more progressive views… to succeed socially or academically’
August 29, 2025
Is RFK Jr. Trump’s Achilles’ heel?
While Trump has cornered the Democrats on a number of issues, Kennedy’s actions on vaccines threaten his boss’s legacy
August 23, 2025
Young people should drink more, no great story starts with salad
Young Americans are drinking less than ever before
Fresh tracks in ancient territories
Whistler Blackcomb’s world-class slopes are shaped by Indigenous stories
August 20, 2025
Why I am never doing the ‘Pete & Bobby Challenge’
I reject this idea of treating life as though it were Basic Training
August 16, 2025
Male cheerleaders? Who cares
Focus on your fantasy team instead
Chicago Public Schools have failed. But there’s another option
Illinois has been offered school choice. Will Governor Pritzker decide in favor of the Chicago Teachers Union or the students it has left behind?
August 15, 2025
Donald Trump saved the UFC
It’s become the sport of the GOP
August 13, 2025
Beware the Nagasaki and Hiroshima revisionism
Japan started a total war. America finished it
August 9, 2025
Snowshoeing with septuagenarians
Finding my ikigai on Japan’s frozen edges
August 3, 2025
Sydney Sweeney, Gwyneth Paltrow and the misogynists
The American Eagle ad campaign is a societal Rorschach test
July 24, 2025
Trump is in a good mood. What’s up?
While he couldn’t help but rub in the terms of the Columbia settlement, Trump also had some positive reflections to share
The doctor will kill you now
The organ-transplant industry is the latest to be captured by harmful progressive do-gooderism
July 22, 2025
Why Trump’s ‘Washington Whatevers’ threat matters
It would be a final stake in the heart of the wokeness of the summer of 2020
July 21, 2025
The $130 billion train that couldn’t
California’s High Speed Rail is only the latest blue-state infrastructure failure
America’s top medical schools still hire by race
The scalpel doesn’t care what ethnicity holds it. The diagnosis doesn’t change depending on your cultural background
July 20, 2025
Dive bars will save the West
They’re bastions of authenticity in performative times
July 18, 2025
Shane Gillis: MVP of the ESPYs
The comedian saved the award show
July 17, 2025
Axing the Department of Education will improve education
Money and choices for students, not for Washington bureaucrats
July 16, 2025
Exploring Edinburgh, from Princes Street to Pitlochry
City chic to Highlands retreat
July 15, 2025
California is doomed
It’s almost beyond belief that the state used to be a glorious paradise of tennis-playing, churchgoing, hard-working patriotic Republicans
Eric Trump is storming the cider industry
The ciders are delicious – and with names like ‘Passionate Patriot IPA,’ a big hit with Trump fans
How to café hop like a Parisian
Eating well in the Marais, where several other museums reside, is a challenge