Regular readers of The American Spectator knew George Neumayr as a gifted writer, an incisive polemicist, and an astute observer of U.S. politics and the Catholic Church. He was also a first-rate media critic, a relentless investigative journalist, and an eloquent…
Saudi Arabia. Oil. Jamal Khashoggi. Human rights abuses. Donald Trump. Lingering 9/11 outrage. January 6. “Sports washing.” Department of Justice probe. Charles Barkley. And golf. It all fits, albeit uncomfortably, a big, bulging bundle of disparate parts lashed together by…
One of the sure signs of the decline of Western civilization is the slow but steady deterioration of the Brooks Brothers white button-down Oxford sign shirt. John F. Kennedy, Gianni Agnelli, Fred Astaire, Andy Warhol, and Miles Davis all wore…
It appears that celebrated golfer Phil Mickelson has sunk a Saudi-sponsored golf league before it even started. Proposed as a rival to the PGA Tour, the potential league had attracted the notice of some significant golfers. But these stars are…
A generation ago, the enemy of the “effective” in advertising was the “cool.” After watching four or so hours of the U.S. Open Golf Championship on Sunday, I have come to understand that the “effective” has a much more potent…
“As outrage over [Georgia’s election] law built this week, not everyone was as willing to go on the record with their [sic] next move.” So wrote New York Times sports columnist Joe Drape on April 2. Chief among those failing…
This dreadful virus has been a jarring reminder of humans constantly having to play catch-up to those occasions when nature visits us with its unpredictable damaging and sometimes lethal permutations. (This is not to rule out the possible creation of…
It doesn’t get any more American than this. Tiger Woods, the wunderkind of golf who won his first Masters tournament in 1997 when he was 21 years old, has won it again over the weekend — when he is 43….
Humans — particularly of the American variety — will knock you for a loop now and then. They seem down; they seem out — licked, run over, beaten to a pulp. Then lo! Then behold! They pull off something big…