Michael Shindler, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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Michael Shindler
Michael Shindler is writer living in Washington, DC. His work has appeared in outlets including The American Conservative, Real Clear Defense, Washington Examiner, and CapX. Follow him on Twitter @MichaelShindler.
by | Oct 4, 2022

When a film intended as an exercise in cultural criticism fails, it is almost always because the director overinvests in the film’s moral teaching at the expense of the acting, cinematography, score, and so on. Remarkably, however, director Olivia Wilde’s…

by | Aug 17, 2022

Jordan Peele’s films are more often than not pegged as works of social commentary, and though his latest film, Nope — about a UFO that turns out to be a hitherto unknown sky creature — seems at first glance to be…

by | Aug 2, 2018

While the conservative commenteriat has worked itself into a frenzy over the recent spate of proposed plastic straw bans, few pundits have taken notice of bans on something that’s far less cherished, yet far more useful: polystyrene. Notably, beginning on…

by | Mar 22, 2018

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a relatively good piece of legislation. It frees up funds for industry and increases the amount of income that the average American worker takes home. However, because our tax code is a strange…

by | Nov 16, 2017

Last month, the Supreme Court granted the government’s petition for a review of Microsoft’s Irish warrant case, which centers around the question of whether the government can issue a warrant to internet service providers to obtain emails stored on servers abroad. This…

by | Oct 27, 2017

Americans who celebrate both the exploration of space and private enterprise often warmly laud companies like United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, and Ad Astra, which cooperate with national space agencies in the pursuit of space-related technological advancement. However, the abstruse multibillion-dollar…

by | Oct 4, 2017

The prospect of a nuclear conflict between the United States and North Korea appears, in light of President Trump’s speech at the United Nations and his recent spate of tweets evincing his distrust of diplomacy, disconcertingly possible. Courses of action available to the administration…

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