The Current Crisis
The Current Crisis
by | Dec 29, 2024

Well, I have finally come across a movie that I like. For years I have been saying how much I hate Hollywood’s products. Oh, there is an occasional movie I like. Patton was one. There have been others. Most recently,…

by | Dec 26, 2024

For over 30 years now, possibly more, The American Spectator has been holding monthly meetings, usually in local eateries. We continue to do this despite the atrocious manners of some of our guests, most notably guests who are members of…

by | Dec 16, 2024

While hope abounds that Mohammad al-Jolani, the new leader of Syria, will bring freedom to Syrians, an unearthed PBS Frontline documentary from 2021 indicates that he will more likely put himself on a collision course with Israel and the United…

by | Dec 13, 2024

The rapid demise of the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has taken every geopolitical analyst and self-proclaimed Middle East “expert” by storm. Following 53 years of brutal Assad family rule and 13 years of bloody civil war, the Syrian…

by | Dec 4, 2024

These days, when one ponders misogyny and antisemitism, one’s mind should almost immediately turn to Hamas’s “genocidal” and sadistic rapes, kidnappings, and murders of Israeli women on 10/7.  Of Israeli men, too. But let’s be clear. Hamas is a Muslim,…

by | Nov 25, 2024

I’ve just watched the film Bread and Roses, co-produced by actress Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousefzai, and directed by Sahra Mani. If only American women were half as brave as the on-camera real-life women activists in Kabul! We…

by | Nov 6, 2024

As I sit here in my library, with the sun streaming again, I cannot help but think that it is once again morning in America. My chair is under the portrait of Abraham Lincoln, which his son, Robert Todd Lincoln,…

by | Nov 2, 2024

Spain is going through what is, most probably, the worst natural tragedy in its history. While I write these lines, there are more than 200 dead and between 2,000 and 3,000 missing people, possibly a good deal more, many of…

by | Oct 22, 2024

Readers have been pestering me for months as to who is going to win the election. You will remember that in 2016 I made a fool of myself when I cast my vote early for Donald Trump, the greenhorn Republican,…

by | Oct 20, 2024

Twenty years from now, historians will look at the election of November 5th, 2024 as either the end of America or its salvation. Of course, should the Democrats win, real historians won’t be able to chronicle the former. They’ll be…

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