Authors

Jeffrey Lord

Jeffrey Lord, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is a former aide to Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp. An author and former CNN commentator, he writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com. His new book, Swamp Wars: Donald Trump and The New American Populism vs. The Old Order, is now out from Bombardier Books.
by | Dec 23, 2024

It may be a full 79 years since the end of World War II. But leave it to the deputy foreign minister of Poland, Władysław Bartoszewski by name, to remind us of the virulent anti-semitism that both brought on the…

by | Dec 19, 2024

Well, here we are already. Just yesterday was the Fourth of July, or so it seems. Next week really is Christmas. Time flies. So for the readers on your Christmas list, what better Christmas gift is there than a conservative…

by | Dec 16, 2024

“Ridiculous.” So correctly pronounced President-elect Donald Trump’s assessment of all those stay-at-home office workers driven from their daily routine — and the routine of any ordinary office — by the COVID pandemic. The Washington Times reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Monday vowed…

by | Dec 12, 2024

Unsurprisingly, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has called it. A professional historian by trade, Gingrich has put out his latest at gingrich360.com, with the headline: “President-Elect Trump: The De Facto President.” Among other things, the former speaker says this: I thought…

by | Dec 9, 2024

Amazing. The flurry of statistics pertaining to President-elect Trump’s historic victory is not only amazing but telling. Let’s do the deep dive. The Trump campaign has posted a “Post-Election TikTok Overview.” The statistics, which include both post-election and election numbers,…

by | Dec 5, 2024

It all began with Robert Bork. Nominated for the United States Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987, Bork was superbly qualified for the job. In his career, he had been a professor at Yale Law School, solicitor general of…

by | Dec 2, 2024

Well, that’s a seriously historical feat. With the pardon of son Hunter Biden — for all manner of influence-peddling schemes, not to mention the revelations about what critics refer to as the “Biden crime family” — when added to the…

by | Nov 26, 2024

One suspects the name of William Bradford is either not known at all or, if known, not well known by Americans. As someone who grew up in Massachusetts, Bradford’s story was taught to kids in public schools like mine. As…

by | Nov 21, 2024

The demand to clean the swamp is picking up in volume. Examples? Over there in The Hill is a swamp history lesson that reaches all the way back almost 120 years to the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt in the White House. Penned…

by | Nov 18, 2024

It was, in the historic telling, supposedly a swamp. That swamp being Washington, D.C. The problem with this story is that it is a myth. There was no swamp. Historians at the National Trust for Historic Preservation make it plain,…

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