AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — If you’ve been consuming fashionable media for some time, you’ve read a story at least once a decade headlined “Brazil: The Emerging Superstate.” I’m sorry, but in which of those decades was it that Brazil finally…
Thank you, Michael, for responding so quickly and so candidly. My thoughts are these: • Let’s agree to disagree about what constitutes a belittling comment. When you call National Review, the centerpiece of William F. Buckley’s legacy, “a joke,” I…
TAS: So, this time you’re interviewing yourself? NBF: I’ve been told that I’m the only person still living who worked closely with William F. Buckley, Jr., in his prime. A firsthand account might be useful. TAS: Why now? NBF: The…
Longtime American Spectator contributor Neal B. Freeman was honored by the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday for “advancing American values.” In accepting the award at the annual dinner in Nassau County, Florida, Freeman made these remarks. I am delighted…
Until this past fortnight, I had no idea how many American Spectator readers were emotionally attached to Hungary. I’ve heard from people who live there and people who want to live there and people who think that everybody should live…
Christopher DeMuth, the respected public policy analyst, has emerged in recent months as the presiding figure of the national conservatism movement. He says that he has chosen to move on from fusionism, which has informed American conservatism for more than…
Jacksonville, Florida There are no sure things in American politics, but this one comes pretty close: The next GOP presidential nominee will be a Floridian. The lanes have filled up already. In the Trump lane, you have the Big Guy…
These remarks were prepared for delivery at the spring meeting of the Philadelphia Society in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 28, 2020. The meeting was canceled due to the ongoing crisis. In the late summer of 2015, I called John…
This toast was offered at the Lincoln Day Dinner on May 24, 2019 in Nassau County, Florida. I rise, Mr. Chairman, to honor a man who reminded us recently what it means to be a good citizen of the free…
If I were to ask you — you being the average, massively well-informed TAS reader — to identify the greatest living entrepreneur of the 21st century, whose name would spring to mind? You might think first of Bill Gates. But…