What do you do when the crackpot policies you’re whooping up hit too close to home? If you’re the head…

Near the beginning of Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s “Weiner,” one of the film-makers asks their subject, the allegedly “disgraced” ex-congressman Anthony Weiner who, in 2013, decided to run for mayor of New York City, if his wife, Huma Abedin, had wanted him to get back into politics. He says that she did because “She was very eager to get her life back that I had taken from her.” Or, as one enthusiastic critic summed it up: Ms. Abedin was “a fellow political animal who felt, as he did, that another race would be the only way their lives could return to normal.” There, in a nutshell, lies the essential phoniness at the heart of this film.

Somewhere General Douglas McArthur is looking down on America and shedding a tear for what we have become — a…

“We’re outselling Beyoncé on Amazon. Who woulda thunk?” asked the Monkees’ lead vocalist Micky Dolenz during a concert at Boston’s…

Obama’s walled mansion. Still needed: moat. Why aren’t there bridges and guest rooms? The Phoenician is European. The Senate is…

Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly has noted the constant war on law enforcement.  Anti-police rhetoric spikes following shootings of young black men…

Whilst spending time in quiet contemplation, considering the ways in which young American men and women gave their lives for…

Mr. Stillman, an old friend of The American Spectator, must have seen it as a challenge to make a movie so much against the grain of the familiar genre of costume drama as to feature a heroine with whom his female audience will presumably not want to identify themselves.

Like the O.J. trial, the guilt of Casey Anthony was a given. More controversy around this lamentable woman and her…

If you were in New York City between 1947 and 1972 and found yourself walking on 6th Avenue between West 52nd…