All my friends and family know that I routinely contribute essays to The American Spectator, essays that should make my position on the issues of the day perfectly clear. At the same time, I make a concerted effort not to import…
Joe Biden is leaving office on the same divisive note that has characterized his entire presidency. In the final episode of The Weekend Spectator before Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President, Paul Kengor and Grace Reilly analyze Biden’s disastrous…
Friedman Pines for China Thomas Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer winner and the New York Times’s foreign-affairs columnist since 1995, has long maintained a set of curious views about world affairs. Most prominent, perhaps, is his elevation of climate change above…
Among my earliest political memories are Nixon’s demise, Ford’s succession, and Carter’s victory. Though my parents did not vote for the Georgia governor in 1976, they made it clear that we were to show him our highest respect as the…
Jimmy Carter had become a bit of a non-person in his long retirement. From the first day of his “ex” status, he was seldom interviewed on events of the day; seldom visited the White House or Congressional offices; and seldom,…
Southern Baptist Jimmy Carter’s funeral was marred by the singing of John Lennon’s “Imagine” at the National Cathedral. Garth Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood performed the song at a Christian funeral in a Christian church. Fox News reports that…
Why not the best? That question is not a mere rhetorical question. In fact, in the fall of 1975, this was the title, Why Not the Best?, of a bestselling book by a new figure on the national stage: former…
My readers of these past eight years know I do not write gleefully over the dead. We all eventually die, whether righteous or evil, having served G-d the Creator and contributed to our society or having wasted our one glorious…
Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States, died at the age of 100 last week. Today was his funeral. At this blessed D.C. event conducted at the National Cathedral, former presidents and vice presidents and their spouses congregated. As…
