Category: In Memoriam - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
In Memoriam
In Memoriam
by | Feb 7, 2024

Country music giant Toby Keith died peacefully of stomach cancer Monday in his native Oklahoma. He was 62. He’s survived by his wife, Tricia, and three children. His family was with him at his death. Keith was a country megastar,…

by | Feb 7, 2024

Last month I had a feeling that something terrible had happened to one of my most beloved former girlfriends, Sherri Schultz. I looked for her on the internet and saw that she’d recently died. A couple of weeks before her…

by | Dec 8, 2023

For most of my long-vanished youth, I watched very little television. But in my late twenties, when I was a teacher and a resident preceptor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, I began to watch more TV in…

by | Dec 8, 2023

I learned about the television industry the hard way as a kid. One Monday night in 1968, I turned on the TV to watch my favorite show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. For three and a half years, I’d enjoyed the…

by | Dec 4, 2023

Retired Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor died Dec. 1 in her home state of Arizona, at the age of 93. Justice O’Connor was the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, a signal…

by | Dec 1, 2023

Henry Kissinger began contributing to America’s national security during World War II. After fleeing Nazi Germany in August 1938 at the age of 15, attending George Washington High School and City College in New York, Kissinger was drafted into the…

by | Nov 30, 2023

Most of us, in setting out to write a doctoral dissertation, the final great requirement on the path to a Ph.D., perhaps the first real step in a dreamed-of academic career, approach it narrowly. Most doctoral dissertations remain unpublished, except…

by | Nov 15, 2023

The world has rarely seen the kind of turmoil and challenges it faces today. Wars, geopolitical strife, climate change, mass immigration, the culture and politics of “hate,” and so much more shadow our day-to-day lives. It has been a disconcerting,…

by | Nov 10, 2023

Jerome R. Daly, the helicopter pilot who became a Catholic priest, flew 2,000 hours in three tours. He earned 80 (this is not a typo) citations for bravery, including the Silver Star, three Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Bronze Stars for…

by | Nov 2, 2023

I’ve never forgotten where I was when Bobby Knight had his chair-throwing moment. I was diagonally on the other side of the court from him, seated in temporary bleachers beneath one of the two walls that separated the main seating…

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