Lou Aguilar
I happen to be good friends with two fine actors who became most famous playing TV superheroes. Both Lee Majors (The Six-Million-Dollar Man) and William Katt (The Greatest American Hero) made audiences really care about how they balanced their double…
Last Monday, August 8, will forever be what the Left tried to make out of January 6, 2021. But this was a line crossed by the State, not a chaotic leaderless crowd. For the first time in American history, the…
In February of 1967, Batman was in trouble. Just one year earlier, the ABC series had been the biggest hit on TV, a cultural phenomenon that included a big-screen movie version. But things changed fast in the late ’60s, and…
Last Summer Boys: A Novel By Bill Rivers (Lake Union Publishing, 285 pages, $14.95) Last month, eminent yet overrated feminist author Joyce Carol Oates tweeted a link to a surprising New York Times op-ed criticizing the woke publishing world’s hostility to…
“You know what the fellow said — in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed — but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five…
I started writing for The American Spectator four years ago to help counter a dangerous trend: the progressive devaluation of men in the culture. My very first piece reflected on the 10-year-anniversary of the Liam Neeson mega-hit Taken, about an…
I’m so far behind on my fourth novel, a Washington, D.C., mystery thriller, I’ve forgotten who the murderer is. But I had to take time to write an extra column on (Doctoress) Jill Biden’s unintentionally hilarious speech Monday at something…
We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America By Kurt Schlichter (Regnery Publishing: 256 pages, $26.99) In February of 1991, young Army officer Kurt Schlichter huddled with his platoon in Iraq, ready to move in on Saddam Hussein’s chemical…
