Dr. Theodore Dalrymple (aka Anthony Daniels) is a retired English psychiatrist who spent most of his career working on the grounds of an urban prison, an experience that he chronicled in a regular, haunting column for the London Spectator. He…

Until recently, Jed Babbin was a contributing editor of The American Spectator and a mainstay of this site. Readers no doubt fondly remember and greatly miss his weekly “Loose Canons” column — which here makes a return guest appearance. He…

Bay Buchanan has just released The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton, a book that could not be more topical as it concerns a woman who could well be the next President of the United States. Hillaryana is all the…

Mark Steyn earned his place in the pantheon of magnificent conservative writers due to his personal ability, skill, and God-given wit — which turns out to be a highly unusual method for establishing oneself nowadays. After beginning as a theatre…

“Legend” has to be one of the most cliched words in the English language, but it’s difficult to get around it when you’re talking about Jackie Mason. This master of brilliant verbal irreverence is primarily known as a stand-up comic…

Feminists sometimes refer to the instance of their awakening as being a “click moment,” but the term is applicable to the average person as well. Many of us had such an experience while reading Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have…

John O’Sullivan is a leading conservative commentator. He served as a special adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and stood for Parliament in 1970. He is currently Editor-at-Large for National Review, co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, Chicago Sun-Times columnist,…