In November, 1863, the New York Herald reported that a temperance committee had asked President Lincoln to dismiss Ulysses S. Grant. They told him the general was an imbiber of strong spirits, to which Lincoln replied: “I wish you would tell…
— Don’t you wish that you could get a dime for every time the mainstream media will use the death of Senator John McCain to bash President Trump? — The NFL season opens in about 11 days. I rarely read…
With the installation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and a yet-to-be-named reliable replacement for the unreliable Anthony Kennedy, Donald Trump will have confirmed himself as the most consequential conservative president of the modern era (or a close second…
Washington I have in my office a framed note from Donald Trump. It says, “Bob, Now We Really Did It. Thanks For All Of Your Help!” The note is dated January 13, 2017. He was responding to my congratulatory email…
George Will is correct: The Republican Party is unworthy of your vote. Unfortunately, though, the alternatives are worse than what America is presently made to endure. And, naturally, George Will’s insight about how the Republican Party shouldn’t get your vote…
Readers of The American Spectator are possibly aware that George Will, our Washington columnist of many years ago, quit the Republican Party over Donald Trump in the autumn of 2016 and just last weekend directed his readers to vote against…
The hanky-clutching, cluck-clucking, tsk-tsking faction of the Conservative movement is in for a rough and bumpy ride over the next four to eight years. They’re the ones who wanted a Republican president who looked like the male manikin on top…
For well over a year now, I’ve noticed a strange and disturbing phenomenon: Almost without exception, leading writers and analysts who are not fans of Donald Trump may come down harshly on Trump, but not on his supporters, and indeed…
At the start of Obama’s administration, George Will was hosting the new president at his house. At the start of Trump’s administration, he finds himself adrift in Washington, cut loose from Fox News and reduced to hurling desperate insults at the…
This article by the late Joseph Sobran ran as the cover story of the October 1983 issue of The American Spectator. It came to mind when Mr. Will recently announced that he is leaving the Republican Party. In early July,…
