The nation’s academic, political, and media elites often give the impression that nearly everything important in America comes out of savvy thinking and actions from enlightened communities on the East and West Coasts, with little of consequence originating in the…
Shocking. Not. If former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election on Nov. 5, America needs to brace. The American Left — they of the BLM 2020 summer of riots, the long-ago anti-Vietnam riots, the Occupy Wall Street riots, the…
Before perusing the long and impressive list of Joseph Epstein’s books that fills two pages of the front matter of his latest collection, Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays, I would’ve described myself as very familiar with his work….
In my novel King of the Jungle, which was serialized here at The American Spectator and is now available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover format at Amazon, I noted a criminal incident with political implications that came out of Chicago….
I’m tired of hearing political pundits divide our Commonwealth into east and west, urban and rural. We are one Pennsylvania — united — and we will come together to tackle our greatest challenges. — Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro A brief look…
Everywhere we turn, the country looks as though it is falling apart. Crime is out of control. Millions of illegal immigrants are pouring across our borders. Our schools are more interested in cultivating gender dysphoria and a proclivity for porn…
We shouldn’t be in a situation where suburban, exurban, and rural conservatives laugh with schadenfreude over the pain and tragedy that blue cities are inflicting on their own people. We shouldn’t be in that situation, but we are. And while…
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer (G.P. Putman’s Sons, 352 pages, $30) In the late 1960s, Gene Siskel was a young reporter at the Chicago Tribune and Roger Ebert a young reporter at the…
The other day at a friends-of-the library, used-book sale, I picked up a copy of Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids. The author recounts a month’s worth of experience in Maine, doing time as a substitute teacher with…
