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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…