Rome was an empty and broken city in 1341. The popes had fled to France where the castles weren’t crumbling, and families weren’t holding grudges against them. Its population had dwindled to a mere 20,000 (the city had been built…
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…
In some sense, writing is guesswork. You put words on a page and hope people like them — generally, some do, and some don’t. Writing is also an incredibly objective thing. Sentences are well-structured and paragraphs flow; if a writer…
Some people find God after falling off a horse, but most Christians approach faith on a day-to-day basis through a cocktail made up of God’s grace, prayer, the cultivation of virtues and sacraments, and also, to some extent, human affections….
A new cathedral spire has finally emerged from scaffolding nearly four years after flames engulfed Paris’s storied Notre Dame Cathedral in April 2019. Intense reconstruction efforts began immediately following the accidental blaze, which investigators attributed to either an electrical short-circuit…
Talking is easy. It happens when air passes from the lungs through airways and the larynx, making the vocal cords vibrate and resulting in sounds that, in most adults, we interpret as language. When those sounds correspond to the concrete…
When I was a boy riding the bus to our diocesan high school, an older kid sometimes sat in the seat next to me. He was an intelligent fellow who has since become a lawyer of considerable reputation. We might…
I read that the New York Post has internationalized the controversy over the “gay Christ” poster (so named by the media) that announces this year’s Holy Week in Seville. The poster truly is as awful as the excessive controversy that…
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which will be released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its complete release…
