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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief ofThe American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: The Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery. He makes frequent appearances on national television and is a nationally syndicated columnist, whose articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, National Review, Harper’s, Commentary, The (London) Spectator, Le Figaro (Paris), and elsewhere. He is also a contributing editor to the New York Sun.
by | Oct 10, 2023

WASHINGTON — I am very surprised that so many adults are having such a difficult time of it in dealing with the Hon. Matt Gaetz, Florida’s boy congressman. The American Spectator had Mr. Gaetz as a guest at one of…

by | Sep 26, 2023

WASHINGTON — What is happening with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign for the presidency? Well, he is running second behind President Joe Biden, but I am counting on Bobby to make a race of it with the old boy. Joe…

by | Sep 19, 2023

WASHINGTON — Well, we finally got to see the funny side of Vladimir Putin, the usually dour president of Russia. Vladi is not known for joking around a lot. Ask Yevgeny Prigozhin, if you can find him. But seriously, Vladimir…

by | Sep 12, 2023

WASHINGTON — There is still more gibberish emitting from the Pope as he travels to and from the Far East. Now he is safely home in the Vatican, so only his close advisers will hear the claptrap that comes from…

by | Sep 5, 2023

WASHINGTON — While verifying the authenticity of quotes in my new book, How Do We Get Out of Here? Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator—From Bobby Kennedy to Donald Trump, I was brought to a…

by | Aug 25, 2023

WASHINGTON — They are coming at us once again. Who? The Goody Two Shoes crowd that claims to have no political interests whatsoever. They are the Goody-Goodies who would patrol the political precincts to keep us all free of any…

by | Aug 21, 2023

One of the brightest lights of one of the most illustrious American families of recent memory has passed away, and with his passing his family is about gone. Jim Buckley, the older brother of William F. Buckley, passed away last…

by | Aug 16, 2023

WASHINGTON — I do not mean to be melodramatic, but as I think about Hunter and Joe Biden’s problems with the law it seems to me that we are facing a national tragedy. The president has a son who has…

by | Aug 8, 2023

WASHINGTON — There was a curious report in the Washington Post late last month. I saw it in no other newspaper. It began thus: “When Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, launched his attempted mutiny on the…

by | Aug 1, 2023

WASHINGTON — What has happened to the Democratic Party? Its elites have only one old codger running for the highest office in the land. The Republicans have at least a dozen, and one of them has held the presidency once…

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