And the award for best actor goes to … Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This weekend’s Academy Awards ceremony did not celebrate the performative talents of Zelenskyy. Sure, Dayrl Hannah said “Slava Ukraine” (“glory to Ukraine”) before presenting the Oscar for best film…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy broke one of the cardinal rules of diplomacy today: Never introduce a surprise in a high-stakes meeting. This principle is sacrosanct among leaders, particularly when navigating complex international relationships. Yet, Zelenskyy employed a risky gambit, attempting…
The editor-in-chief of Vox, Swati Sharma, recently unleashed a scathing critique of Vice President JD Vance, dismissing his “godawful reading of Christianity.” In her piece, Sharma mocked Vance for invoking the ancient concept of ordo amoris to argue that love…
So you’ve decided to become a realist. Not a philosophical realist, like Wittgenstein or Popper. Not an artistic realist, like Courbet or Millet. And not a literary realist, like Balzac or Flaubert. No, something even more formidable — a foreign…
The second Trump administration has hit the ground running, tackling the biggest problems faced by America and the world simultaneously. Some of the most vexing challenges facing humanity have their root in the European Union, which has created a spectacular…
Join hosts Paul Kengor and Grace Reilly at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), that took place last week in Washington, D.C. In this episode of The Weekend Spectator, Paul gives Grace a recap of his talk to students…
Dear Ms. Mackenzie and Mr. McKay, I am writing to you after hearing your podcast on JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference. (LISTEN HERE: The Spectacle Ep. 193: The Future of U.S. Relations With Europe, Russia, and Ukraine) Myself, I…
Vice President JD Vance’s speech on Feb. 14 at the Munich Security Conference was not merely the most important speech the precocious young second-in-command has delivered in his political career. It was also a speech that encapsulates an entire geopolitical…
It is springtime in the West. This moment recalls the words of Poland’s Cold War-era philosopher Leszek Kołakowski, who asserted, “Obvious lies uttered aloud with impunity are excellent proofs of the health of the system.” The lies are no longer…
