I just finished reading Thomas Mallon’s fine historical novel Fellow Travelers and now look forward to seeing the Showtime mini-series that it inspired. Against the backdrop of the McCarthy era, these works concern the Lavender Scare: Gay Americans in the federal government were targeted as…
I had an interesting weekend. I spent most of it in Chicago, a city where I hadn’t spent much time before. Prior to Friday, I’d only been in O’Hare International Airport, not Chicago itself, but after Friday I can count…
There have been two GOP debates. We now know all the players. They have had their chance to move the dial. The GOP nomination race is over. Ron DeSantis is a great governor, and he needs to stay in Florida…
Founded in 1977, Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) is America’s major organization for gay members of the GOP. There is much to admire about it. While virtually all other major gay-rights groups in America, such as Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and…
“A Less Advanced Civilization,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator, Sept. 10, 2023.
Pronouns are back in the news. And, no, we’re not talking about neopronouns, the latest gloss on language insanity given an injection of immediacy by CNN, among others. You may have seen these odd words in print — “xe/xyr,” “ze/zir,”…
Anheuser-Busch has spent the summer desperately trying to appease conservatives after a nationwide boycott over the company’s woke virtue-signaling sent the corporation into a death spiral. Apparently, its fellow leftist corporations have yet to learn that lesson. The popular job-hunting…
Based on its last experience approving a new NATO member, it is no wonder that so many in Hungary’s conservative government have been wary about doing so again. Just a little over a week after Hungary gave the green light…
