King Charles’s big day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, May 27, began with a welcome by four First Nations men in native costume. They sat in a semicircle around a huge drum and banged on it with sticks while wailing…
Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the British Isles, is desperate to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, yet another nation surrounded by water. Never mind that Mauritius never owned the Chagos, has no claim on them, and shares little…
The Cut, a popular New York magazine site covering women’s lives and interests, from politics to feminism to mental health, recently posed a question: Why do some women inspire such disproportionate rage? Among the names floated, none loomed larger than Meghan…
In a previous article in The American Spectator, I asked: “Are we at the end of American maritime hegemony?” The article noted the concern expressed by two naval experts that our diminished shipbuilding capacity was endangering our maritime supremacy. I…
In an important article in Foreign Affairs, Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Eric Labs, a naval expert at the Congressional Budget Office, warn U.S. policymakers that America is suffering from a “ship gap”…
Elon Musk is under criticism for poking his nose in Great Britain politics, primarily calling out the Pakistani rape gangs in England. In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss the atrocities that the political elites on…
Last year I wrote the first two of what will probably be a lengthy series of novels, and readers of both have noticed a rather eerie bit of prognostication coming from them. In King of the Jungle, there was an…
Herbert Spencer was once considered a towering figure in Western intellectual life. The ideas expounded by this “eminent Victorian” philosopher were imprinted on the minds of an entire generation of thinkers. While his reputation started to decline after his death…
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, From Hellmarsh With Love, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator each weekend in September and October, before its full publication on Amazon later this fall. From Hellmarsh With…
