The American Spectator’s founder, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., joined The American Spectator director of operations Leonora Cravotta and The Scott Adams Show host Scott Adams to discuss his newest book, How Do We Get Out of Here?: Half a Century of Laughter…
Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities By Jack Cashill (Post Hill Press, 288 pages, $21.85) Against any reasonable expectation, America’s once-proud post–World War II suburbanization and middle-class expansion has become a critical flashpoint in our…
The Thales Way By Robert L. Luddy (Thales Press, 152 pages, $24) Would you be interested in a book on reforming education by a man who created flourishing grade, middle, and high school charter schools, all with waiting lists today,…
Before the internet, artificial intelligence, the International Space Station, and the mapping of the human genome, there was science fiction, which predicted it all. Where and when the genre began is debatable: among the ancestors of today’s science fiction are…
Ten minutes after downloading Richard Bradford’s Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer, I was wondering what the hell I’d been thinking. No, that’s not it. I did know what I’d been thinking: It had been a long time since…
The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival By Ron DeSantis (Broadside Books, 288 pages, $35) While courage may seem a fading virtue in America’s political discourse, at least one man has taken it to the next level:…
Education is like a precious ruby hanging from an invisible chain around your neck. Once you have acquired it, it will always be with you. No one can ever yank it from your person. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly more…
Élisabeth Borne, la Secrète By Bérengère Bonte (L’Archipel, 240 pages, $28) There’s no better promotional vehicle than controversy and scandal. Given this, journalist Bérengère Bonte’s timely provocative book about France’s current prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, la Secrète (Élisabeth Borne, the…
The following is an exclusive Q&A between The American Spectator editor Paul Kengor and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on his new book, March to the Majority: The Real Story of the Republican Revolution, written with Joe Gaylord,…
Once called “the wickedest woman in New York” in the tabloids of the time, Madame Restell, the notorious abortionist of 19th-century New York City, is rebranded as a saintly “protector of women’s reproductive rights” in a new book by Jennifer…