PBS premiered “The Incomparable Mr. Buckley” coincidentally on the same day that I visited Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library to explore William F. Buckley Jr.’s correspondence. The epistolary Buckley encountered Friday morning clashed as much as he meshed with the…
When Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition conducted its election campaign last year, it promoted the slogan of “Smiling Poland,” with corresponding brand accents of smiles and hearts. It implied that Poland had receded into darkness under the conservative Law…
We are the conservatives, and we like good, truth, and beauty. That is, we like Pope John Paul II, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Ivanka Trump. We also like beer, but I don’t want to detract from the solemnity of the…
From her speech yesterday at CPAC, you would never have guessed Tulsi Gabbard ran as a Democratic candidate for president just three years ago. In fact, one could easily mistake her for a card carrying, gun toting, God loving MAGA…
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…
If you are a novelist, you may abandon inconvenient reality for richly imagined fiction. Consider Evelyn Waugh, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930. Rather than embrace the low-born majority of his new fellow congregants, he wove the richly tragic…
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…
As Rabbie Burns reminded us, in his barbaric Scotch brogue, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft agley,/An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,/For promis’d joy!” If he had been a wiser man — and been born…
Fifty-three years ago, Life magazine proclaimed them “The Buckleys: A Gifted American Family.” The passing of James L. Buckley at 100 means that all eight of the surviving Buckley siblings who appeared on that memorable magazine cover are, like Life…
A report published in the Washington Times last week, entitled “Young conservatives take climate activism to GOP presidential debate,” undoubtedly is of grave concern to conservatives and the Republican Party. A group of young Republicans called the American Conservation Coalition…