Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, From Hellmarsh With Love, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator each weekend in September and October, before its full publication on Amazon later this fall. From…
The Lord of the Rings is back on the scene, and its relevance connects to what’s going on in politics today! The Left attempts to fit their narrative into J.R.R. Tolkien’s work despite its strong influence in conservative and Christian…
While studying philosophy as an undergrad, I took a seminar on Friedrich Nietzsche. What followed could be described as a mild infatuation. I even drew a portrait of the infamous atheist philosopher, signature bushy mustache and all. Some girls I…
The success of a political thriller in print or film depends on something more than good writing — great timing. Take one of best screen thrillers of all time, Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sidney Pollack. Robert Redford…
This summer marks one year since Cormac McCarthy’s death. Throughout his 89 years of life, the American novelist accrued much fame and many awards for his artful writing. Titles such as No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, and All…
The Shield of Achilles By W.H. Auden (Princeton University Press, 93 pages, $23) The republication of W.H. Auden’s poetry collection, The Shield of Achilles, reminds us that Auden belongs in the hall of great Christian writers, not with the Left. I…
You Never Know — A Memoir By Tom Selleck with Ellis Henican (DEYST, 343 pages, $30) In which, happily, Tom Selleck does not tell all. I know what you’re thinking. You Never Know is just another one of those first-person memoirs of the…
Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History By Nellie Bowles (Thesis, 272 pages, $23) In January 1970, while visiting his future wife at her office in Manhattan, journalist Tom Wolfe spotted a letter on a nearby…
This spring, my big project has been the release of my latest novel King of the Jungle, which you should all buy and read for a copious number of reasons, mostly because you’ll greatly enjoy it. Writing the book was…