If you’re too old to go trick-or-treating, too full of self-respect to hang around your front door all day on Halloween so you can hand out candy to other people’s brats, and too much of a loser to have friends…
Anything can happen by Election Day next week, but Democrats are having a really scary Halloween. They fear the Great Orange Pumpkin is coming to get them, and their horror is infectious. After all, they’d thrown everything they had at…
Calvary Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio, is a quiet, lovely, sacred place. Maple and oak trees stretch hundreds of feet into the air, and in November they rain their multicolored canopy onto the quiet graves of the dead. When you speak,…
Halloween has arrived in my neighborhood (try to read it in as dispassionate a voice as possible). I was approached by two short guys in masks — could be kids or not — and with their first “trick or treat”…
Hosts Aubrey Gulick and Luther Abel return to The Spectator P.M. Podcast’s booth to discuss the new House speaker, their mutual distaste for horror movies, and Aubrey’s deep dive into AI-generated disinformation coming out of Gaza. When they aren’t aiming…
FRANKLIN, Pa. — As I approached this idyllic Western Pennsylvania town last Saturday afternoon, admiring the gorgeous fall foliage along Route 8 North, I was greeted by something quite unfamiliar. Sadly, it was a sight not unusual today in small-town,…
With Halloween came a new batch of articles, news segments, and podcasts lambasting and warning of unintended cultural appropriation. In an Oct. 14 PBS article, author Beatrice Alvarez admonished families that many costumes are “actually hurtful to many people because…
There’s many a curious way to mark Halloween. I’ve told Bob Tyrrell, founder of this venerable publication, about a fellow columnist of mine at the Pitt News in the late 1980s, Mario Oliverio. Like many young conservatives of our generation,…
I have a Halloween admission to make. I believe in witches. They don’t fly on broomsticks anymore. Now they have a more effective means to spread their evil and curse the land — political power. What of it they cannot…
