A tip of the cowboy hat goes to our John Mac Ghlionn for his spot-on lament of the slow but inexorable decline of country music. Country may not be dead as a going concern, but it’s on life-support. Mac Ghlionn…
There’s a peculiar talent NPR has perfected over the years: the ability to moralize and condescend in the same breath, all while pretending they’re simply offering insight. Their latest exercise in public character trial — disguised as cultural analysis — centers…
It’s fun for the columnist when the columns prove prescient. Not that my column last week encouraging conservatives to take the win on the House passage of the Big Beautiful Bill was particularly earthshattering in its reference to a coming…
Variety recently published an article asking: “Does being a Morgan Wallen fan make you MAGA?” That’s the wrong question. A better one might be: Does listening to Morgan Wallen still make you a country fan? It’s a valid question. Here’s why. There was…
Post Malone recently kicked off the biggest international headline tour of his career — Post Malone Presents: The Big Ass Stadium Tour. The tour follows closely after his headline set at Coachella last month. It’s undeniable: Post Malone is, for all…
I don’t know whether I should be proud or ashamed to say this publicly. (Let me pause a moment to be sure I want to admit this.) (Still thinking…) (Still…) Oh, OK. What the heck. Here goes: I have never…
Country music giant Toby Keith died peacefully of stomach cancer Monday in his native Oklahoma. He was 62. He’s survived by his wife, Tricia, and three children. His family was with him at his death. Keith was a country megastar,…
Since retiring from government service, I tend to think of myself first as a novelist and, more recently, as a contributor to The American Spectator on national security topics, drawing upon a lifetime of professional experience. I have avoided cultural and…
If you’ll forgive the reference to the Elvis Costello classic of yesteryear, “Oliver’s Army” has grown up out of the hustings, and our elites simply refuse to reckon with it. The same thing keeps manifesting again and again in America,…
