One figure that liberals haven’t commemorated this Black History Month is Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther Party ringleader of the 1960s. The reason is no great mystery: Had Cleaver remained a radical leftist, he would be hailed by the Left…
In a breaking story that will have serious international implications, we’re just learning from the Russians that dissident and opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in Vladimir Putin’s gulag. Specifically, the 47-year-old Navalny perished in a brutal Arctic concentration camp…
There were seven. Seven figures above all, with varying influences, some more intentional than others, who brought down the Berlin Wall, freed Eastern Europe from communism, took down the Soviet Union, and peacefully ended the Cold War. They were Ronald…
Ronald Reagan’s Enduring Principles: How They Can Promote Political Success Today By Donald J. Devine (The Fund for American Studies, 177 pages, $10) Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this date, Feb. 6, over a century ago — 1911. It…
Make no mistake about it, Donald Trump’s win in New Hampshire is actually a big victory for his now-sole challenger, Nikki Haley. A few days ago, Trump was looking like he would run away with the Republican presidential nomination, especially…
Ron DeSantis’s exit from the presidential race effectively turns the 2024 election into a three-person contest: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Nikki Haley. (We shouldn’t ignore our friend RFK, Jr., though he’s more a factor — and a significant one…
The date was September 1, 2015, a Tuesday. It was an unusual day at the Rowan County courthouse in Kentucky. County Clerk Kim Davis arrived shortly before 7:00 a.m. Awaiting Davis were dozens of reporters and a few lawyers. The…
“Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” Such were the immortal words of wisdom of the grim Dean Wormer to Kent “Flounder” Dorfman, the — well — fat, drunk, and stupid frat boy in the…
Readers of the new memoirs of R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., our venerable founder of The American Spectator, expect a fun, witty chronicle of the man and his times. The book offers just that. But it’s also good history. Tyrrell provides…
Asked in an interview recently to name my favorite Christmas movie, I went through the usual routine of naming several candidates — new and old, mostly black and white — before inevitably getting to the point, the undeniable, the obvious:…