On Feb. 20, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), moderator Mercedes Schlapp, during her 30-minute conversation with Vice President JD Vance, asked him: “Your faith — why is it so important to you?” To his credit, Vance gave a…
Join hosts Paul Kengor and Grace Reilly at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), that took place last week in Washington, D.C. In this episode of The Weekend Spectator, Paul gives Grace a recap of his talk to students…
Some people are so miserable that only a star on the Walk of Fame would cheer them up. And then there is the rest of us, we who get excited about any silly little thing made for us lovingly, for…
As I write this, Super Tuesday is ongoing, and we don’t know the results yet, but whatever. Whatever the elections, there is one thing we have already learned: Donald Trump wins, if the system lets him. There is a sense…
“I am a political dissident,” former President Donald Trump told listeners at CPAC last Saturday in a striking speech. This week, Sebastian Gorka, host of the America First podcast, and American Spectator editor Paul Kengor talk about the significance of…
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…
Nikki Haley doesn’t get it. The majority of Republicans love former President Donald Trump. My own time this last week at the annual CPAC gathering made it crystal clear that the thousands of conservatives in attendance were not just supporting…
At least officially, Donald Trump is not yet the Republican nominee for president, but you wouldn’t have known it from attending CPAC 2024. Just down the Potomac River from the Swamp they wish to reconquer, attendees of the yearly conservative…
Thousands gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this weekend to rally around the future of conservative politics in America. In anticipation of the upcoming election, CPAC was largely rallied focused on former President Donald Trump as the potential…
