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Scott McKay
Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. Scott is also the author of The Revivalist Manifesto: How Patriots Can Win The Next American Era, and, more recently, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It's All Obama, available November 21. He’s also a writer of fiction — check out his four Tales of Ardenia novels Animus, Perdition, Retribution and Quandary at Amazon.
by and | Mar 28, 2024

We’ve known for a while that the CIA and FBI have gone rogue: They spy on American citizens and both institutions are infected by woke groupthink. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, Mike Waller, a senior analyst for strategy at the…

by | Mar 27, 2024

I’ve discussed the “hero’s journey of Donald Trump” here in this column multiple times — and it turns out I couldn’t get away from it even if I wanted to. Every day we hear a drumbeat of evidence that the…

by | Mar 25, 2024

Perhaps it’s a sop to the aging liberals who still make up the bulk of the readership of the New York Times, but, for some reason, this weekend James Carville was a featured subject in a well-traveled column by Maureen…

by and | Mar 24, 2024

Spectacle host Melissa Mackenzie is a die-hard Dune fan. She’s read the books, watched all the movies, and sat through the newly released Dune: Part Two multiple times. On today’s episode, Melissa and co-host Scott McKay discuss Denis Villeneuve’s latest…

by and | Mar 23, 2024

Former board member and long-time conservative writer and thinker James Piereson joins hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast. They discuss the question of the fourth great political revolution in the United States and…

by | Mar 22, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the eighth installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this spring….

by | Mar 21, 2024

I decided I’d continue with the f0rmat things seem to be fitting into lately, namely that everything in politics has begun pointing to a framing of the 2024 election as the hero’s journey, starring Donald Trump as the hero and…

by and | Mar 21, 2024

In a recent interview with Jason Whitlock, social commentator Pearl Davis admitted that she’s recently begun reconsidering her childhood Catholic faith because she’s concluded that the Church may elevate Mary, the Mother of God, too much. On today’s episode of The…

by | Mar 20, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, I talked about the fact that the 2024 presidential election is becoming a real-life political analog to the hero’s journey, the literary archetype from which so much of our culture derives. My point wasn’t so…

by | Mar 18, 2024

A trio of things I’ve said, of which some of our readers have offered sideways kudos for noticing the blindingly obvious, came roaring back into prominence over the weekend as the political organization nominally built around Joe Biden decided to…

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