Saturday mornings at The American Spectator are about to get a whole lot more fun. For the next 10 weeks, Scott McKay’s newest novel, King of the Jungle, will come out chapter by chapter. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa…
Next month marks the two-year anniversary of the death of America’s funniest writer, P.J. O’Rourke. The world of journalism is a little grayer and a lot duller since then. It’s like being on a laughter diet. He knew better than…
I got my first job as a journalist at The American Spectator in the late 1980s. My first boss was R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I wasn’t even close to being a journalist. I drove Bob around in his diesel Mercedes,…
You know journalism is flailing when Economist columnist James Bennet writes a piece that pretty much blew up his old home. The headline: “When the New York Times lost its way.” In 2020, when he was the Gray Lady’s editorial-page…
Aubrey and Luther pontificate about Rome’s wonders, debate the correct time to decorate for Christmas (Aubrey on decorating vs. Luther on trees), and update readers on the situation in Israel. After saying a few words about the recently departed Henry…
Hunter S. Thompson was necessary for the rest of us to be able to do whatever we want in our columns and chronicles, without anyone knowing exactly it’s true or if it is all part of some joke — although…
I never met Tom Wolfe, even though we shared friends and editors and agents and both lived for a long time on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. I remember seeing him once, on a fine summer’s day, stepping out…
In a Russian media landscape that seeks to suppress reality rather than shine a light on it, Evan Gershkovich bravely went to work each day as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, illuminating parts of Vladimir Putin’s Russia that…
Nobody really knew who James O’Keefe was back in 2009, but when he and an associate went around the country catching employees at ACORN offices on video helping out with what turned out to be a hypothetical scam involving a…
