I remember a time when neighborhoods sounded remarkably human. Infants wailed and toddlers shrieked. Parents, bleary-eyed and jittery with caffeine, barked orders like half-deranged lieutenants trying to hold the line. Arms flapped, milk spilled, and cereal launched across kitchens like…

Researchers in Australia reported that there are adverse effects on the environment caused by a man’s best friend. Senior editor of The American Spectator Daniel Flynn joins The Spectacle Podcast hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay to discuss the unfounded claims that dogs are harming…

From the people who turned your Mustang into a Prius and made it so your dishwasher does not actually wash dishes comes a new villain, not quite straight from central casting, in the imaginary war on the planet: dogs. “We…

Kristi Noem wrapped up the Almira Gulch vote. Some other constituencies remain skeptical. In her new book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, South Dakota’s governor tells the story of…

I haven’t always been a dog lover. I never had a dog when I was growing up because, for one thing, my parents, like many Polish Jews, were conditioned to be afraid of them. For another, dogs are messy which…

Here’s a challenge for red-blooded and freedom-loving Americanos. Name three of life’s simple but real pleasures that progressives aren’t working to stamp out. OK, name one. The uber-nannies are at their villainous work again, proving, as if further proof were…

If you’ve been reading this column for a very long time you might be familiar with Mr. Bingle, whose arrival at Castle McKay was heralded by a 2014 column in this space. At the time he was a bouncy, and…

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. — Franz Kafka I started volunteering at a soup kitchen a few years before the pandemic. The program that I volunteered for…

The first confirmed case of monkeypox transmission from humans to dogs has been documented in France. A report from the Lancet revealed that the case emerged in the household of a non-monogamous homosexual couple, one of whom is also HIV…

In summer we come across verbs that do not exist during the rest of the year. One of them is “to inflate.” In winter it is not necessary to inflate anything. The fireplace, books, and the PlayStation come already inflated….