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by and | May 11, 2023

In this episode of The Spectacle podcast, Melissa Mackenzie (publisher of The American Spectator) and Scott McKay (American Spectator contributing editor and publisher of both RVIVR.com and TheHayride.com) have on a special guest: The American Spectator’s editor, Paul Kengor. For…

by | Mar 5, 2023

How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises By Spencer Klavan (Regnery Publishing, 256 pages, $30) “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana. In his stirring new book, How to…

by | Oct 22, 2022

If you don’t understand the virtue of weeds, you will not understand the mind of nature. Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth. — Taneda Santōka, “Diary of the One-Grass Hut” (1940) There is no such thing as a…

by | Aug 25, 2022

Crisis of Command: How We Lost Trust and Confidence in America’s Generals and Politicians By Stuart Scheller (Knox Press, 272 pages, $28)  “He was following the orders he was given.” At this point, former Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller despises those…

by | Aug 9, 2022

In February of 1967, Batman was in trouble. Just one year earlier, the ABC series had been the biggest hit on TV, a cultural phenomenon that included a big-screen movie version. But things changed fast in the late ’60s, and…

by | Nov 19, 2021

BRIMFIELD, Mass. — “We are living in a throwaway culture,” Pope Francis observed this summer. “What is useless is discarded.”  The pope speaks of people, specifically the elderly, the unborn, and the disabled, i.e., the inefficient. Disposable, however, seems an…

by | Nov 18, 2021

Sophie Halberstadt was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child when she fell ill with the Spanish influenza. The tell-tale symptoms appeared on January 20, 1920, and worsened steadily over the next five days, just as the rain…

by | Jul 18, 2020

I write today to cry for my beloved country, the United States of America. First, a word about that love. I have visited, set foot in, and explored the vast majority of the United States. I have been to almost…

by | Jul 22, 2018

No one can say when exactly the modern age began, but it was clearly tied to the Reformation, Renaissance, and the Scientific Revolution which had their roots in 14thand 15thcentury Europe. The reformation of church corruption and pursuit of spiritual…

by | Jul 19, 2018

A liberal Berkeley friend teases me. She claims I’ve given up reading the New York Times because it runs too many stories about black people. She’s trying to trigger me. We still can joke. Not every leftist I know can, but…

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