Esquire Resurrects Spy for Last 30 Days Before Election

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Screen Shot 2016-10-11 at 8.47.25 AMSpy is back. In digital form, that is. Esquire has resurrected the legendary satirical magazine that folded in 1998 as a pop-up site at Esquire.com/spy.

As Spy co-founder Kurt Andersen noted in his “we’re back” piece, Donald Trump’s rise made a Spy reboot absolutely necessary.

“Spy pioneered the exposure and ridicule of Trump back in its day, of course, always referring to him as ‘short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump’— and in this campaign, astonishingly, that epithet (and the general tiny-hand critique) resurfaced in a big way.

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