I know the Church is truly a work of God because it has managed to survive the temples built in the second half of the 20th century, especially in Europe, although there is also some unrefined ecclesiastical architecture in the…
It is 3 a.m. Central Time and I cannot sleep. Sleep is elusive the night before I travel anywhere but most especially when I know I’m going down to the Houston Medical Center three hours from now. I’m tired, so…
A newcomer to town attended daily Mincha minyan (Judaism’s mandatory afternoon prayers) at his shul but mysteriously always would rush away a few minutes later, right before the Maariv (mandatory evening services) would begin. Members of the congregation bad-mouthed him…
Because my several thousand readers in The American Spectator seem mostly to be devout Christians (although rumor has it that Jews read me, too, as do agnostics and even anti-Semites), I present herein more universal thoughts rather than purely Judaic…
I recently got an email from Albert, a longtime reader of this fine publication, regarding the “unconditional release” of would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley, who spent decades confined to a mental institution for trying to kill the 40th President of…
Daniel Flynn reported in the April 8 edition of Spectator A.M. on a recent debate between two distinguished professors on the topic “Return to the Founders to Save America.” Flynn quoted one of the debaters, Patrick Deneen of Notre Dame, in a…
Sunday It’s Christmastime. This has been a difficult year for me for many reasons. The pandemic. Losing our rights under the Constitution in the “new” Biden America, where race matters more than merit, where law enforcement has been abandoned, where…
The most extraordinary letter received here in 2021 (or perhaps in the last five years) was a response to an email of mine on colleges’ appointing atheist chaplains. The letter (edited to protect the writer) went as follows: The appointment…
Pain and love run perpendicular. Somewhere along the way they inevitably meet. We see it in the Cross. I trust you’ll understand if I don’t feel like satire today. It happened last Thursday in Madrid. At the end of the…
