Chicago’s Field Museum is covering some Native American displays after the new federal regulation from the Biden administration went into effect requiring museums and researchers to obtain consent from Native American tribes before they can exhibit or research Native American…
The gray mantle of evening had finally shrouded the light of a balmy midsummer’s day, and the good citizens of Doylestown, Pennsylvania were busy trimming their lamps and preparing their beds for the night when all of a sudden news…
When Philip Roth died in 2018 at age 85, all eyes turned to Blake Bailey, his appointed biographer who’d been hard at work on a Roth biography already for several years. Roth fans such as myself looked forward to getting…
In this week’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Aubrey Gulick and Luther Abel are back from their brief hiatus to discuss the future of conservative entertainment in light of Daily Wire’s newest kids’ platform: Bentkey. Does Daily Wire have…
I am delighted to say that I will be joining the new Thales College, as a professor of humanities. What that means, I shall try to describe by way of contrast. Let us suppose I am at almost any other…
Hunter S. Thompson was necessary for the rest of us to be able to do whatever we want in our columns and chronicles, without anyone knowing exactly it’s true or if it is all part of some joke — although…
On Juneteenth, I decided to celebrate by visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met currently has a variety of fascinating exhibits on display, including the Afrocentric Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, The African Origin of…
The latest fad is to travel to dangerous destinations. That is, to die. Perhaps there are people who are de facto not so far removed from the postulates of politicians who advocate euthanasia. The trend is not to travel, or…
There’s a new Transformers movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Although reviewers diverge on the specifics, they generally agree that it sucks. To some, Pete Davidson — the voice of Mirage — is “hilarious” and doing what “may be his…
Some four hundred thousand visitors pass through the wrought iron gates of the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague each year, most of them, we may safely presume, with the intention of viewing the institution’s most prized possession: Johannes Vermeer’s Meisje…