Conservative groups today are splintering into sects squabbling over what true conservatism is. The last Republican president to unite these sects was Ronald Reagan. He won election and then reelection by wide margins, turned over the White House to his…
Ronald Reagan’s Enduring Principles: How They Can Promote Political Success Today By Donald J. Devine (The Fund for American Studies, 177 pages, $10) Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this date, Feb. 6, over a century ago — 1911. It…
WASHINGTON — If the Washington Post treated itself the way it treats conservatives, it would call itself the “liberal Washington Post.” The newspaper’s story on the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay repeatedly referred to her critics as “conservative,” GOP…
Readers of the new memoirs of R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., our venerable founder of The American Spectator, expect a fun, witty chronicle of the man and his times. The book offers just that. But it’s also good history. Tyrrell provides…
The Hotel Harrington, Washington, D.C.’s oldest auberge, closes today. For many within The American Spectator community, the shuttering marks the end of an era. Harry’s, the street-level bar under the 109-year-old hotel’s rooms, hosted for many years revelers spilling over…
Just when Ronald Reagan seems to have survived a Nationalist Right charge that his philosophy was a kind of zombie Libertarianism, here comes Henry Olsen promoting his 2017 The Working Class Republican book theme saying that Reagan was a Franklin D….
The revelation comes at the funerals. The side-by-side combatants in trying to block the Panama Canal giveaway or the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers conspicuously miss the sendoff — no time to pause fighting other battles of varying consequence….
One of the more unfortunate characteristics of conservatives, not just in America but elsewhere around the world, is that we’re so often a bit slow on the uptake when it comes to understanding who we’re up against. And that failure…
People who have only experienced the highly polarized and often dysfunctional party system of today are often surprised to learn that a generation ago, the system was dramatically different. The bitter partisanship and hostility that especially marks the House of…
