Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill By John A. Burtka IV (Gateway Editions, 344 pages, $20) The publication of Johnny Burtka’s Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill strikes as a most peculiar election-year book. The genre,…
Editor’s Note: This is the third 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 on Amazon later this…
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television By Foster Hirsch (Knopf, 672 pages, $40) If you listen to the Left, the 1950s…
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…
