J. K. Rowling Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Jun 1, 2023

Patrick Strudwick, former LGBTQ editor for BuzzFeed News, last week accused attendees of the anti-transgender Let Women Speak rally of being neo-Nazis. “In Melbourne this March, an anti-trans rally organized by British ‘gender-critical’ campaigner Kellie Jay-Keen staged a mass Nazi…

by | Mar 18, 2023

Charles Beresford was born to an aristocratic English family, son of a Marquess. He rose to prominence in the Royal Navy, eventually gaining a series of three fleet commands in the days before World War I. Beresford gained great popularity…

by | Feb 15, 2023

It isn’t a civil rights cause, it isn’t a new form of free expression, it isn’t a natural societal evolution. It’s insanity. And facilitating it, as in the case of the supposed “medical professionals” increasingly pushing it on children, is…

by | Oct 16, 2022

I can remember the exact moment I became politically aware. It was on November 4, 1979, when a group of radical Islamic Iranians smashed into the United States Embassy and took 66 Americans hostage. Up to that time, as a…

by | Apr 15, 2022

I It is July 1, 1899, and Julie Manet is navigating the crooked streets and alleys of Paris’ disreputably bohemian Pigalle district. Her destination is the studio of Edgar Degas, who is said to be working on a sensational new…

by | Jan 19, 2022

Few things are more pathetic than public figures who grovel in front of woke bullies for uttering the “wrong” word or idea. Who remembers how a June 3, 2020, op-ed by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton in the New York Times…

by | Aug 2, 2021

Being unblessed by fatherhood (thus far), I have little idea of what boys today are watching on TV, the few not playing video games anyway. But in perusing the 2021 primetime network schedule, I found nothing I would want to…

by | Dec 4, 2020

The fourth Van Morrison-penned anti-lockdown song of 2020 debuts today. Eric Clapton performs the 75-year-old’s “Stand and Deliver.” But no matter how many times you demand, “Turn up your radio and let me hear the song,” your local D.J. assuredly…

by and | Jul 29, 2020

Twitter is a lot like cigarettes: It’s awful for you, and torture for everyone around you. Twitter addiction, like cigarette addiction, takes practice. You’re not hooked the first time you try it, but by the 30th, 40th, or 50th time,…

by | Jul 10, 2020

Writers and intellectuals from across the political spectrum signed an open letter in Harper’s Magazine calling for civility and open discourse, published Tuesday. Signatories of the letter include J. K. Rowling, Noah Chomsky, Margaret Atwood, Gloria Steinem, Bari Wiess, and…

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