Bloomington, Indiana — Driving around this university town on a sweltering hot summer day, a normal person might be in pursuit of the excellent music school, or the nationally known journalism school, and most hopefully not the Kinsey Institute. Or…
Bill Clinton was Harvey Weinstein before being Harvey Weinstein was uncool. This makes the Spectator’s own R. Emmett Tyrrell something of a premature anti-sexual harassment activist. The fall from fashion of fat, ugly, bald rapists comes as a very recent…
In “His Father’s Son,” historical writer Tim Brady gives us a well-researched and well-written biography of an American who understood the concept of public service thoroughly and consistently met its high standards as well as anyone in the republic.
Today, a federal judge has granted a full release to John Hinckley, Jr., the man who on March 30, 1981 attempted to assassinate President Reagan and severely wounded White House Press Secretary James Brady as well as Secret Service agent…
This won’t be the first time this space has reminded our readers of the sage observation by Eric Hoffer that “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Hoffer’s observation is, of…
Wednesday in the Louisiana House of Representatives, which is becoming a hothouse for material feeding this column (if you think the House is rough around here, you ought to see the Senate!), a comic outrage broke out when, during debate…