Chronic readers of this column are surely aware that one of my favorite authors, who also happens to be a personal friend, is Kurt Schlichter. Kurt has written eight novels in his Kelly Turnbull series, and I’m not sure I…
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…
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication…
Saturday mornings at The American Spectator are about to get a whole lot more fun. For the next 10 weeks, Scott McKay’s newest novel, King of the Jungle, will come out chapter by chapter. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa…
It was a Capitol Hill press spokesman job for a conservative Florida Congressman that got me to Washington, D.C. in 1982, where I contracted no Potomac Fever whatever. JFK was right when he described Washington as a city of Southern…
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…
Washington Times contributor Christian Josi’s review of American Spectator founder R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s autobiography How Do We Get Out of Here? Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator — From Bobby Kennedy to Donald J. Trump is…
The American Spectator’s founder and editor in chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., joined C-SPAN on its Booknotes+ podcast to discuss his memoir, How Do We Get Out of Here?: Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator―From…
21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era By Benjamin F. Armstrong (Naval Institute Press, 240 pages, $26) Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote about naval history, strategy, and geopolitics more than 100 years ago, yet, as Benjamin Armstrong points out…
Author’s Note: My just-published book, Up From Socialism: My 60-Year Search for a Healing New Radical Politics (Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press), devotes hundreds of pages to lovingly describing and subtly critiquing the inner life of “idealistic” leftist organizations, and the…