Melissa Mackenzie, host of The Spectacle podcast and publisher at The American Spectator, welcomed the magazine’s newest hire, Nate Hochman, during The American Spectator’s education symposium. They talked about Nate’s experience at a left-leaning liberal college in Colorado Springs and discussed the developing tendency of…
Sociologists, psychologists, journalists, and others who write about such things have been scratching their heads — at least since the 2010s — over the apparent decline of sexual activity among people of all age groups, but especially among young adults…
Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs star and host of How America Works, has recently unloaded on Gen Z, the age cohort born somewhere between the mid-1990s through 2010 and sometimes known as “zoomers.” Rowe said that the importance of hard work is on the way out,…
The other day I was invited to a party at a pub with very young people. I didn’t like the place very much, but I accepted the invitation knowing that the host was a good friend of mine and believing…
I write this week as a very different man than I was when writing my last column. Then, I was merely engaged; now, after the single greatest week of my life culminated in the single greatest day and night of…
In Norman Rockwell’s famous 1943 painting Freedom From Want,” part of his Four Freedoms series, Rockwell depicts the traditional, American Thanksgiving meal. An elderly couple stands at the end of the table holding an impressive turkey on a platter. Meanwhile,…
If you build mass transit, they will come. That “Field of Dreams” thinking is one of the operating assumptions behind the unprecedented federal and state spending spree on public transportation. The Biden administration is doling out as much as $108 billion on mass transit,…
About twenty years ago, colleges and universities began chasing men away. In part due to the U.S. civil rights law called Title IX, in part due to the pendulum swinging back from male dominance, and in part due to a…
A Catholic and a Protestant walk into a podcast booth. On a blustery Midwestern day, hosts Aubrey Gulick and Luther Abel introduce listeners to The Spectator P.M. Podcast, the latest multimedia offering from The American Spectator. In their inaugural recorded…
