When we think of Nazism, we think of Adolf Hitler. The two are intimately intertwined in our minds and the story we tell to explain the most unexplainable events of the 20th century — and justifiably so. Hitler, our most…
WASHINGTON — While verifying the authenticity of quotes in my new book, How Do We Get Out of Here? Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator—From Bobby Kennedy to Donald Trump, I was brought to a…
Surveying the disgraceful condition of our nation’s 21st-century news media, there are times when the question occurs to me, “What would Wes Pruden do?” During the decade I worked as an assistant editor at The Washington Times, I occasionally had…
Unsurprisingly, the question of NATO membership for Ukraine generated the greatest discussion among both the participants at the recent NATO summit in Vilnius and commentators in the major western media outlets. Beyond the sometimes testy exchanges, however, much of the…
Sir Arthur Salter was a shipping agent who served briefly in Churchill’s last wartime cabinet. He was elected as an independent to Parliament in Labour’s landslide victory that stunned the world by turning Churchill out of office immediately on his…
As readers of this space know, former President Donald J. Trump is suing CNN for defamation. Trump claims in his suit that CNN defamed him by repeatedly likening him to Hitler and, in particular, by claiming that his complaints about…
Shakespeare’s King Lear shows the subversion of the most fundamental of all relationships, that of parent and child, by the corrupt and unbounded lust for power. It is a painful and horrifying play to read. We follow first how the…
Tuesday Let’s face facts. Let’s look at something grim and terrifying. Comrade Putin is an aggressive dictator of a nation with above 6,000 nuclear warheads. He recognizes no limits on his cruelty and his ambition. He’s apparently not feeling well…
The Putin-Ukraine thing is a mess. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky certainly seems a well-meaning guy, but Putin realistically is not a madman nor a Hitler. Putin is complex. He is a murderer, for sure. His opponents get stabbed in West…
