When all you have is a hammer, everything does indeed look like a nail. This is the best way to describe government officials’ unoriginal and often destructive thinking. No matter the problem du jour, the answer is always more government…
The Pole, Karolina Bielawska, is the new queen of world beauty. I don’t want to make my beloved Maria Sharapova jealous, but I would like to take this opportunity The American Spectator has given me to ask Karolina to marry…
“Save the Polar Bears, Enable the Russian Bear,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, February 28, 2022.
I’m writing from Budapest, the beautiful, Danube-bestriding Hungarian capital. Hungary, though a faraway land and modest in both size and population, has played an outsize role in the American conservative conscience for the past half-decade or so. After just a…
The Left and the Social Democrats in both Europe and America have one thing in common: they know nothing of human nature. You know: Everyone is good. All criminals can be reintegrated. All borders are bad. And every multicultural melting…
The brutal death of a French Catholic priest last week is grimly symbolic of liberal Europe’s direction under its open-borders ideology. The priest was beaten to death by a Rwandan immigrant to whom he had given shelter. The immigrant was a known…
You don’t need to know anything about Hungary to recognize that the people who’ve savaged Tucker Carlson all over the media for going there earlier this month are telling whoppers about it. Because what they say about Hungary in their…
The European Commission voted this week to withhold COVID relief funds from Poland and Hungary following a set of European Union reports that said the two countries are undermining “the rule of law.” Late last year, the EU approved the…
Paris Millions of Europeans are furious about the appalling way in which their governments, and the European Commission — the European Union’s (EU) budgeting and management agency — have been handling the COVID-19 vaccination process. Promised doses of the approved vaccines…
