Luke Lyman is the US arts editor of The Spectator.
There’s something very religious about nihilism. For proof, look to the new capital of American nihilism, Minneapolis. A callousness toward death and danger has fallen over the city. Of the many disturbing videos to come out of Minnesota’s anti-ICE protests, one of the stranger examples shows a white man walking up to a line of
The cartoonist was long ahead of the curve
One of psychology’s seminal experiments is based on lies
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Why are Silicon Valley billionaires obsessing over Heaven & Hell, and what does it tell us about American society today? Spectator World‘s Arts Editor Luke Lyman joins Damian Thompson on this episode of Holy Smoke to talk about how a fascination with the Book of Revelation, the Antichrist and a techno-utopia – or techno-apocalypse –
In this fraught international context, Trump is acting totally sane
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In this episode, US arts editor Luke Lyman is joined by Kate Andrews, formerly of The Spectator, to discuss President Javier Milei’s landslide victory in the Argentinian elections this week. The polls were wrong – how did the self proclaimed anarcho-capitalist survive? Plus, Luke and Kate discuss Kamala Harris’s suggestion that she could run again in 2028.
A mixture of Martin Luther King Jr. and L. Ron Hubbard, he is our greatest living orator
Mavens argue that Silicon Valley’s engineers should see their work as part of a greater divine plan
How did regular people become so radicalized?
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Elon Musk and Taylor Swift fans rejoice! America’s birthrate is saved! News of the engagement between America’s reigning sweetheart, Taylor Swift, and jock, Travis Kelce, can mean only one thing: a millennial marriage boom is upon us. And with it, natalists will hope, an impending baby boom. I’m no Swiftie. Nor am I one of
Is she simply an American businesswoman, or is she a future empress?
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are devouring the American dessert industry
