The slate of “parent’s rights” bills that swept through red-state legislatures over the past three years may have seemed innocuous enough to the average observer; in fact, even the most controversial of the bills proved to be broadly popular with…
After nearly a decade of clamoring for the censorship, deplatforming, debanking, doxxing, and even imprisonment of their fellow Americans, members of the “disinformation” cabal have finally found a form of speech they don’t want to suppress: their own. This revelation…
Few misadventures in government have met their demise so quickly, or in such humiliating fashion, as the Department of Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Governance Board.” The board, launched in April 2022 — purportedly to “coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security”…
Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of being a nationalist. But if her recently surfaced comments about Somalia are any indication, she is, in fact, an ardent one — just not for the nation of America….
The massive number of immigrants flooding into America are born to fundamentally reshape the country — that’s been true of every successive wave of immigrants that cross the border. But there’s something different about this most recent wave. On today’s Spectacle podcast, The…
“Political language,” wrote George Orwell, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Nowhere is this more evident today than in the phrase “liberal democratic values,” which is…
It was January 2018, and America’s political class was apoplectic. The sitting president of the United States had said something terrible — unforgivable, even. “[A]bhorrent and repulsive,” then-Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) fumed. “We are deeply disturbed and offended,” thundered a…
Melissa Mackenzie, host of The Spectacle podcast and publisher at The American Spectator, welcomed the magazine’s newest hire, Nate Hochman, during The American Spectator’s education symposium. They talked about Nate’s experience at a left-leaning liberal college in Colorado Springs and discussed the developing tendency of…
Donald Trump had hardly made it down the escalator in 2015 by the time political commentators had begun to search for ways to explain away his appeal to the public. Eight years later, the search continues — and the stubborn…