The Sun is a giant star, with a diameter of 1.4 million kilometers, filled with hot gasses that environmentalists most probably, seeing as they are not caused by capitalism, couldn’t care less about. The sun burns away with a surface…
The history of literature and journalism is full of great authors who have published their works in serialized form in magazines and newspapers. Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, G. K. Chesterton, Itxu Díaz, and Fedor Dostoievski, are just some of the…
Conjugating ‘F’ Is Not Comedy In my car, I now automatically tune my XM radio to Fox News. I used to try the comedy channels, but they are not funny anymore. The contemporary era’s idea of comedy is who can…
In 1985, David Blum, a 29 year-old writer bestowed the sobriquet Brat Pack on a group of rising young actors with a now infamous New York Magazine cover article. The piece which was originally intended to be a profile of…
As a boat skipper, I hate being told what to do on board. The girls started screaming at me that if I accelerated too fast, our towels would fall into the sea. The guys were howling and beating their chests….
In one of last week’s episodes of The Spectacle podcast, American Spectator publisher Melissa Mackenzie and I discussed what might be called the death of “woke” — the newfound trend by which the cancel mobs that the Left has deployed…
Recently, in an article about the latest Netflix outing featuring the spectacularly unfunny comedienne Hannah Gadsby, I wrote the following: “The best 10 or 20 or 30 stand-ups in the English-speaking world could never get anywhere near the stage of…
One of my favorite plans this time of year is to go on a picnic. The first to go on a picnic were cavemen, on a hill, on a huge slate stone; they just didn’t know they were having a…
Now that spring is close, with warm weather and the beach on the horizon, and free time, I know that many of my dear male readers would appreciate some tips on how to conquer the girl of their dreams. Especially…