Alfred S. Regnery

To any politician—especially a president—the most damaging criticism, at least apart from a seamy ethical problem, is incompetence. People just like to think those they elect are capable of getting the job done, and if they cannot, they’re unlikely to…

“The american president,” said Henry Adams— grandson of one president and great-grandson of another— “resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.” The new president,…

I find it enlightening to review the many promises made by incoming presidents over the years, and to then compare those promises with what they actually accomplished. The country is fixated on what Mr. Obama has promised and his big…

The age of Reagan, we are told is over. Conservatives have had their day have been rejected and replaced with liberalism the likes of which has not been in power since the New Deal From the breathtaking victories of the…

THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN for the White House, it was increasingly apparent that according to media elites, Barack Obama’s victory was unquestionable. There is little doubt that an Obama administration’s foibles could only add up to good news in the enamored…

JP, regarding your blog point on God and Man: I noticed it was #2 in politics yesterday on Amazon. We did a 50th edition in 2001 that actually sold quite well. And finally, when I asked Bill to write a…

To say that Bill Buckley caused a sensation, when he first emerged on the scene with the publication of God and Man at Yale in the spring of 1951, would be an understatement. Just 25 and a recent Yale graduate,…

I was surprised that the New York Times, in this morning’s edition, devoted as much space as it did to an insignificant lawsuit filed by a handful of disgruntled authors against Regnery Publishing, the conservative publisher founded by my father…

This article appears in the September 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here. The American dream lives on in Virginia’s Blue Ridge. Probably not a surprise, but it may be a surprise…

For fresh insight into the Miers mess, take a look at something I’ve just received: One beyond the Beltway friend has sent a tortured but hopeful explanation of the recent nomination events. He contends that after John Roberts, any nominee…