On August 12, 2022, a 24-year-old California-born Islamist named Hadi Matar rushed the stage of the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York where novelist Salman Rushdie was about to speak, stabbing Rushdie ten times, in the chest, neck, stomach, thigh…
Another year, another installment of The Crown. The series, which started in 2016, has been a cash cow for Netflix. But the end is in sight. The first four episodes of the sixth season went out to the world on…
Let’s play a game of make-believe. Suppose that tomorrow the Philippines were to band together, send delegates to Davao, and draft a document detailing all the reasons they resented being a de facto outpost of the American empire. (READ MORE:…
The Dictionary People: The Unsung People Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 384 pages, $30) Sarah Ogilvie is an Australian linguist and lexicographer who, after writing her dissertation on the Oxford English Dictionary, worked for many years,…
The U.S. Senate has finally reversed its idiotic “Fetterman rule” and unanimously voted to reinstate a proper dress code. Previously, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had scrapped the dress code, allowing full-time Wario look-alike John Fetterman (D-Pa.) to wander…
A September 15 article in the Wall Street Journal brought to light the sad state of Britain’s Royal Air Force. The article pointed out that military power is declining across the NATO powers and both Britain and the United States…
“Joe Biden’s Wheel of Misfortune,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator, July 10, 2023.
The immigration wars engulfing politics in Britain are roaring on. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge to “stop the boats” carrying asylum seekers across the English Channel is facing stiff opposition within his own party. Last week, former Prime Minister Theresa…
For a year I’ve been expressing my fear of a desperate Vladimir Putin ultimately resorting to a nuclear option of some sort in Ukraine. The Russians always get their tails kicked in military conflicts, and the fact that they’ve been…
