“America is straying toward monstrous imprudence,” writes Naval War College strategy professor James Holmes in analyzing the Biden administration’s defense budget request for fiscal year 2025 in an important article in the National Interest. That is because, Holmes explains, “U.S….
Editor’s Note: This is the eighth 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 spring….
A couple of weeks ago, I talked about the fact that the 2024 presidential election is becoming a real-life political analog to the hero’s journey, the literary archetype from which so much of our culture derives. My point wasn’t so…
On today’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Ellie Gardey and Aubrey Gulick discuss all the ways TikTok has contributed to the destruction of American culture and Gen Z’s attention spans. They comment on the U.S. House of Representative’s…
The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City has issued its first “trigger warning” for Puccini’s 1926 opera, Turandot, which takes place in ancient Peking, China. Here’s the full warning, written by Christopher Bronwer, the Met’s associate editor: We must also consider the…
Standing Up Space Force: The Road to the Nation’s Sixth Armed Service By Forrest L. Marion (Naval Institute Press, 289 pages, $82) In two much-publicized novels that envision the next world war, the United States is attacked first in space…
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh 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 spring….