May 27, 2023
Let’s Bankrupt All the Pride Sponsors (With Joy and Conviction)
For once, for once in our lives, let us wage war. Not like in the old days, hand-to-hand combat is so last century, but ChatGPT to ChatGPT ("Tell me something…
Itxu Díaz
No Meat? No Problem: Meal Hacks For Times of Inflation
With all the talk of lower gas prices, a full tank of gas still costs me over $100, and I use regular. Even with spring sprung, heating bills have me…
Mike Howard
Who Let Roderick Spode Edit Jeeves?
Will publishers next lop off the silent “P” in “Psmith” for fear of otherwise offending the pterodactyls? Penguin Random House most recently insensitively sicced its censors, which it euphemistically calls…
Daniel J. Flynn
Left, Right, and Center Agree Big Government Doesn’t Work
Government Executive public administration expert Donald F. Kettl has recently come to the painful conclusion that the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership 2025 proposal on government reform is “a thoughtful but piercing critique of the existing civil service system.” [perfectpullquote align="right" bordertop="false" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size=""]READ MORE: Cancel Chevron,…
Donald Devine
There Must Not Be Another Bakhmut
So Bakhmut falls, and the war in Ukraine continues. The lesson is: Don’t hype a battle unless you know you can win. The struggle for Bakhmut started in earnest last August. At the time, it was just one engagement on a fluid front. To the north, Ukraine’s Kharkiv counteroffensive kicked…
James S. Robbins
American Spectator Editor on Drag Queens
American Spectator editor Paul Kengor appeared on the Drew Mariani Show Thursday. Up for discussion were two articles published in the American Spectator on how drag queens have become a weapon in the culture war. In "On Drag Queens and the Methodist Breakup," Tom Raabe explores how drag queens are at…
The Editors
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' much-anticipated 2024 presidential campaign is finally here. DeSantis is, by any empirical metric or otherwise reasonable estimation, the only person with a viable chance of defeating former President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. What follows is a straightforward affirmative case for DeSantis' candidacy, written…
Josh Hammer
Five Quick Things: Are Democrats the Gay-Porn-For-Kids Party?
It would seem so, as we'll see below. We didn't have a Spectacle podcast this week, as Melissa was on injured reserve with some sort of a plague, and I'm in the last stages of finishing the new book (it's about Obama and the damage he's done and is still…
Scott McKay
