Melissa Mackenzie
Join Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay for this episode of The Spectacle to hear their ideas on what Republicans should focus on to win elections. Leave us a comment on what you think the GOP’s next move should be. Listen…
In this episode of The Spectacle, Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss Democrats’ pleas for pandemic amnesty, including Atlantic writer Emily Oster’s article titled “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty” MELISSA MACKENZIE: The chick who wrote it wants COVID amnesty. And,…
I’m what happens when a conservative believes the polls. I had wrongly thought that the polls swinging toward the Republicans meant that the polls were undercounting Republican support, as they have from time immemorial. I was wrong. Terribly wrong. (Listen…
At the risk of counting our eggs before they hatch, I thought it would be fun to lay down my always wrong predictions here and invite you to do the same in the comments. I will have a fraud-free prediction…
In this episode of The Spectacle, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss the debate performances of Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, the incoming red wave, and no-big-deal Apocalypses. Your hosts also speculate over…
The American Spectator is delighted to announce our new podcast, The Spectacle! Hosted by Melissa Mackenzie, our publisher, and Scott McKay, a contributing editor, the podcast will cover the spectacle of modern politics and culture with the fearlessness that characterizes…
Would anyone know the name Evan McMullin without Democrat consultant Rick Wilson? Would a nobody congressional staffer ever be seriously considered as a possible United States president except by someone like former American Spectator intern Bill Kristol? Only delusional men…
Barack Obama’s economy in 2011 stunk. Mitt Romney should have had an easier time running against his rather lazy opponent with little good news to his name. But Romney was a bad candidate for the times. Members of the working…
Attached to my local library sits a tiny used bookstore housed in an unassuming 10-by-12 fluorescent-lit room near the front entrance. A cheerful, bespectacled, curly-gray-haired lady eagerly helps her buyers pick out books from the neatly divided and ordered shelves….
