What you see below is a leaflet the British dropped over Germany in 1943, when the tide of war had turned. Kraft durch Freude means “Strength through Joy.” It was a slogan used by the Nazi-run labor organization that extracted…
First, a note about “Ocasio.” Back in the 1930s, newspapers determined that American presidents with surnames extending beyond six letters needed to be identified by their three initials (FDR, JFK, LBJ) because seven letters could not fit across a tabloid…
Tim Walz has decided that his IVF spiel is particularly effective. The story goes that Walz and his wife struggled with infertility for years. They turned to the medical industry for answers and waited with bated breath for the phone…
No one is buying what Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party are selling these days. Earlier this week, on the opening night of the demonic confab in Chicago that Democrats call their national convention, the outgoing commander-in-chief explicitly…
Contrary to the protestations of smarmy low-T pols like Andy Beshear and Pete Buttigieg, this column is highly compassionate and empathetic. At least to its readers. And I know that now, with the Democrats’ festival of mendacity having closed up…
CHICAGO — Day Two of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago confirms this much: With Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee, Democrats are not moving to the middle. Independent voters, you are not the focus in Chicago. You…
Monday and Tuesday nights were historic events for American politics. No, seriously, they were. What you’ve seen in the first half of this year’s Democratic National Convention has been an exposition of something unprecedented — an utter divorce from reality,…
President Joe Biden’s appearance at the Democratic National Convention opening was prolonged until after prime time and accompanied by an artificial welcome. In today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, host Scott McKay is joined by American Spectator writer S. A….
CHICAGO — It must have been a rough plane ride for President Joe Biden and his family, who left the White House for Chicago so he could address a Democratic National Convention that joyfully had moved on to Vice President…
