The Walt Disney Company may be reaching a tipping point in its long and storied history. For over 90 years it has been a bastion of the middle-class American family, enchanting parents and children alike with stories of virtue rewarded,…
In my childhood years and even into my grown-up years, I regarded myself as Mickey Mouse’s pal. Uncle Walt’s pal, really. I went to the theme parks and collected the toys and went to the Disney movies. As a child,…
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.” That’s one of my favorite lines from Ayn Rand, the iconoclastic writer of the past century. Rand is arguably the…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a quick and effective political counter-puncher. He demonstrated this Thursday when he called out Disney Chairman Bob Chapek for his virtue-signaling objection to Florida’s recently passed Parental Rights in Education bill. DeSantis promises to sign…
Inconvenience an aggressive leftist agenda in any way and be branded a bigot for your trouble. We were treated (if that’s the word) Wednesday to two examples of how aggressive and intolerant Hollywoke and the current Democratic Party are when conservatives…
Sweat dripped off my face as I walked through Disney World last week with my family on one of the hottest days of a humid Florida summer. We were visiting Epcot, the park themed around multiculturalism and a utopian future,…
“Disney-Approved Dreams,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, February 12, 2021.
The heavy-handedness of the irony in Sean Baker’s new movie, The Florida Project, begins with the opening titles, over which we hear Kool & the Gang singing “Ce-le-brate good times, come on!” while the camera introduces us to the sun-drenched…
The problem with government that thinks it’s running Disney World. People seeking medical attention from the VA face long wait times but, then, so do people waiting to ride on the cup and saucer at Disney World. It isn’t the…