Each morning for the last several days I’ve turned first for news concerning the two SEALs lost at sea off the coast of Somalia, hoping—by this moment, hoping against all hope—that they will somehow be found alive. I’ve been privileged…
While we wished each other a “Merry Christmas,” and went about our caroling and exchanging presents, at least 140 Christian farmers — and probably 200 or more — were murdered by Moslem herders in the Plateau State of Nigeria. If…
We’ve wished each other a “Merry Christmas,” we’ve gathered with family to exchange gifts, we’ve enjoyed the fellowship of our Christmas church services, and maybe we’ve even enjoyed a White Christmas, with chestnuts roasting on an open fire and jack…
I’ll be home for Christmas, you can plan on me, please have snow, and mistletoe, and presents by the tree, Christmas Eve will find me, where the love light gleams, I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams….
Most of us, in setting out to write a doctoral dissertation, the final great requirement on the path to a Ph.D., perhaps the first real step in a dreamed-of academic career, approach it narrowly. Most doctoral dissertations remain unpublished, except…
“Oh, my God! The president’s been shot!” For those of us of a certain age, the moment we first heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot has enshrined itself among our most indelible memories. I was 13, and…
Several days ago, a Jewish friend of mine remarked that he was “shocked to learn that there were so many Jew-haters in America.” I responded that I was shocked as well, but differently. I’ve been watching the recrudescence of American…
Last week’s essay by George Parry, “Joe Biden and the Coming Domestic Martyrdom Operations,” belongs at the top of every American Spectator reading list. It’s powerful, utterly convincing, and terrifying in its depiction of the potential for mass casualty terrorism…
“If you get them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.” That’s one version. Another, from a veteran military adviser in Vietnam, turned it around: “It was hard to win the villagers’ hearts and minds when the VC…
Oct. 7, 2023, like Dec. 7, 1941, deserves the appellation “a date that will live in infamy.” In the days ahead, we will rightly focus attention on the situation in the Middle East. Still, the threats that concerned us on…