Never, goes the ancient adage, pick a fight you’re not prepared to finish. The craziness, the certifiable lunacy, that swirls about us testifies to the inability of the Left to think through the implications of what it began, peaceably enough,…
Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” is a father’s lesson to his son on how to be a man. It begins, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you … ” That seems…
“Cancel culture” is a double entendre of the dangerous kind. It is not just about canceling individuals or entities who offend leftist activists and their myopic group of minions; it is about fundamentally canceling America. The rabid Left is actively…
Today, over 50 unionized and progressive groups planned to strike in protest of police brutality against blacks and in demand of higher wages. In over 100 U.S. cities, organizers expected tens of thousands to walk off their jobs in support…
You have probably never heard of Sean Ernest Ruis, but the Michigan man’s death last week marked the convergence of two current media propaganda themes — police shootings and the threat of COVID-19. The proximate cause of Ruis’s death was…
George Floyd’s tragic death in police custody demands a return to individualism and the ideals that promote the inherent worth of every human being regardless of skin color. Unfortunately, the backlash on the collectivist Left has been quite the opposite….
I have a few items on my mind that perhaps, on their own, don’t merit a full examination in an entire American Spectator column. Perhaps they don’t merit an entry in one of the frequent Five Quick Things columns that…
When I was in college, the person I respected most was Ken Kesey. Everything hinges on consciousness. An unexamined life is not living. Kesey’s work was one great, creative exercise in revolutionary consciousness-raising. So it seemed in 1971. I was…
America is three years, 137 days, four hours, fifty-seven minutes, and forty-six seconds into a perpetual leftist tantrum as of this writing. The day that Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, Soros-funded shock troops shattered storefronts and looted. Even before being…
