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by | Mar 20, 2024

The idea that children are best raised in a household with a married mother and father marginalizes racial minorities and LGBTQ people and should be eradicated, says Bethany L. Letiecq, associate professor at George Mason University’s College of Education and…

by | Mar 16, 2024

In a long line of David-versus-Goliath political victories that includes Trump, Brexit, Orbán, Milei and the recent Voice referendum in Australia, Irish voters have delivered a stunning rebuke to their political betters by voting down two proposed changes to the…

by | Jan 26, 2024

After years of embracing woke ideology, beauty pageants may finally be recognizing the importance of promoting real women. Last week, Madison Marsh was crowned Miss America 2024. The 22-year-old from Colorado is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force…

by | Jan 14, 2024

In 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his “I Had a Dream” speech.  At the time, racist barriers substantially impacted the life chances of blacks, the parents and grandparents of today’s black youths. Structural racism in American society was clearly evidenced…

by | Jan 5, 2024

I was very naïve when I left the military. I’d spent years concentrating on “leadership,” daydreaming about how I would perform under threat of gunfire and IEDs, scanning the daily news from Iraq, reading Medal of Honor citations, devouring memoirs…

by and | Jan 5, 2024

Hosts Aubrey Gulick and Luther Abel spent their last episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast of 2023 talking about Christmas traditions and the endless amount of energy kids possess. In keeping with the Christmas theme, Aubrey recommends James H. McGee’s…

by | Dec 15, 2023

These days there are a lot of Christmas dinners with friends, family, or (the most dreaded) coworkers. The latter often result in impossible engagements, layoffs, fights, and drunken intoxications that would make a Viking blush. Many employees hate Christmas dinner…

by | Dec 13, 2023

As I survey the few friends I have left as I enter into old age, I see some who are in misery and some who are in pretty good shape psychologically and emotionally. There are many differences between them, and…

by | Dec 11, 2023

Now for a few words on important subjects of the day. 1. I am getting ready to go to the Shiva for my departed friend Norman Lear. Norman was the first close friend I had in Hollywood. Despite yawning chasms…

by | Dec 5, 2023

Both of my grandfathers are dead. Both died abruptly.  My father’s father passed away from a stroke when I was just 13. My father and I watched it happen. Or, rather, I watched my father watch it happen. The grave…

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