Recent studies show that the future of American religion faces two massive obstacles: most young people don’t believe in God, and only about one-fifth of Americans attends a religious service on a weekly basis. Time and again, statistics like these…
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…
A 12-year-old student was allegedly sent home from Nichols Middle School for wearing a shirt that read: “There are only two genders.” That’s right. His shirt featured a statement of what was a well-known fact for thousands of years of…
I first discovered HBO’s hit series The White Lotus through the hosts of the controversial Red Scare podcast, upon whom two of the characters in the first season were based. Director Mike White inhabits the cultural realm of the podcasters…
Columbia, Missouri, is a typical midwestern college town. Much like Ames, Iowa, or Lawrence, Kansas, or Champaign, Illinois, or Bloomington, Indiana, it has a population of roughly 100,000, sits in the middle of the state, and enfolds a large state…
It’s hard not to binge read a Dean Koontz novel. Koontz’s prose is beyond tight. His suspenseful plots hurl readers headlong into raucous adventures in which the stakes for his protagonists are extreme and, for humanity, often dire. His heroes…
I not only write for The American Spectator but also am among its most voracious readers. Throughout my years at The American Spectator, I always found George Neumayr to be among the very, very best contributors amid a collection of…
Indiana, Pennsylvania — This magazine in the past few weeks has paid homage to Frank Capra’s Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, starring the great Jimmy Stewart. I’ve seen the movie plenty of times. So why did it leave me…
For all of the media’s hyperventilating about the GOP’s “culture war,” most Republicans show little to no interest in fighting it. In truth, the “culture war” is hopelessly one-sided, pitting tenacious Democrats against irresolute or decadent Republicans. Take Nancy Pelosi’s…
In 1984, George Orwell depicted totalitarians using language in an effort to control thought for political purposes. Today’s totalitarians on the political and philosophical left have for some time now waged a war on “nationalism,” a term that formerly described…