Some famous writers are forgotten the moment they kick off. Joan Didion, who passed away at age 87 two days before Christmas last year, isn’t one of them. It’s not because her work is so monumental. Her screenplays for movies…
I’ll just confess this up front, for reasons I’ll outline in just a second. I’m on a huge Kurt Schlichter kick at the moment. Over the weekend I finished his latest political book We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise…
At 4 a.m. on Tuesday, an explosion blasted apart one of the Georgia Guidestones, a group of stone tablets commissioned by an unknown organization situated in Elbert County, Georgia, which have been derided by some for the “demonic” commandments written…
Jim Gaffigan said on Joe Rogan’s program, “I’d still take Biden’s corpse over Donald Trump.” Congratulations, elites! You’re now being governed by a political corpse. Elites will be fine with a dead president governing a zombified American economy and society….
I nearly got run over by truck when I was out for a jog last week. A guy in a pickup truck rolled through a stop sign and into the crosswalk right as I was about to cross. Somehow, I…
“Conservatives in the Crosshairs,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, July 15, 2021.
America has grappled mightily with its attempt to understand how our self-styled elites see themselves. Trying to manage an official spending indiscretion, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham inadvertently has revealed it: they think they’re rock stars. During the pandemic,…
“We, the people” is the phrase that comes trippingly to mind. We, the people, over Memorial Day weekend, initiated an urgent referendum on the means and methods of battling the novel coronavirus. Early returns pour in even as we speak….
A Mexican standoff is a confrontation between two or more parties in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger. As a result, all participants need to maintain the strategic tension, which remains unresolved until some…
Editor’s Note: William Murchison is off this week. The following column is by Michael Barone. It’s been a tough year for political elites, here and around the world, what with the passage of Brexit in June in Britain, the repudiation…