The Turning Point: 1851 — A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Knopf, 368 pages,…

The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun By Noah Rothman (Broadside Books, 320 pages,…

The last column in this space seemed to hit a nerve with friends and foes alike, which is to say…

What does progressive conservatism mean? Labels can confuse more than they clarify, and sometimes they lie. People asked how Obamacare…

The State of Black America: Progress, Pitfalls, and the Promise of the Republic Edited by W. B. Allen (Encounter Books,…

What drives and motivates America’s most dangerous adversary, Chinese President Xi Jinping? As war clouds gather over the western Pacific,…

Boy, this has been one heck of a week. For news and politics, certainly. But it’s more than that for…

“For I ask all men whether they would prefer to have joy in truth or in falsehood. They hesitate no…

The late M. Stanton Evans, who eschewed computers for typewriters and offered the visage not of a TV pundit but…

American Spectator senior editor Daniel Flynn published an essay for the Acton Institute today to mark the 73rd anniversary of…