Nov. 25, 1950. Morning has come, the sun has risen well above the rim of the world, and Secretary Liu is still sound asleep. Serving as a Russian translator and aide-de-camp to General Peng Dehuai of the Chinese People’s Volunteer…
From Hellmarsh With Love is Scott McKay’s sequel to his previous novel, King of the Jungle, with installments released exclusively at The American Spectator. In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, host Melissa Mackenzie interviews co-host Scott McKay on his…
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism By Sean McMeekin (Basic Books, 544 pages, $27) “Political power” — Communist political power — does, as Chairman Mao said, grow “out of the barrel of a gun.”…
Reds: The Tragedy of Communism By Maurice Isserman (Basic Books, 384 pages, $27.99) Reds: The Tragedy of Communism opens with a warning aimed at the reader: the “history of American Communism requires the ability to weigh complex and often ambiguous…
The Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball took a page from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) playbook in their response to outfielder Jarren Duran making an “anti-gay slur” toward a fan who was heckling him as he stepped to…
Since the fall of 1917, when Lenin seized power in Russia, the evils of communism have been exposed by courageous witnesses, some of whom emerged from “penal” and forced labor camps that Alexander Solzhenitsyn described as the essence of communism….
The Venezuelan electoral council announced that incumbent President Nicolas Maduro won against Edmundo Gonzalez, and Venezuelan citizens are calling it fraud. In today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss the election results and analyze…
Venezuela is the holy Job of modern history. Their mixture of struggle and resignation, of resistance, of enduring unnecessary poverty and dispensable humiliation, is an example for the world. The people have once again voted against the mustachioed walrus. There…
It has become a custom of mine, each year towards the end of June, to attend a daylily flower show organized by the local branch of the American Hemerocallis Society. Arrayed before the visitor, on these charming occasions, are row…
