The annals of political imagery are replete with disasters, moments when the most carefully crafted public persona dissolves in a…
There’s a man who stands just outside the playground where I take my daughters on Sundays. He doesn’t speak. Doesn’t…
In 1795, Immanuel Kant wrote a book titled Perpetual Peace just prior to the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars. More…
Among the errors to which journalists are prone, none is so common as the delusion of instant expertise. Assign a…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump does not want to be a wartime president. He wants to be the president who,…
“Dear President Biden,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on June 23, 2025.
Over the last decade, I made three assumptions about the Israel–Iran situation. Two of them were right and the third…
In 1979, right after the Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah and replaced his largely secular regime with a fanatically theocratic…
On Sunday, the Iranian parliament approved a measure to close the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes on…
