There is a probably apocryphal anecdote about the two greatest authors of French literature, who just happened to be close friends. Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas were strolling by the Seine River one day in 1865, when the bells of…
It’s hard not to binge read a Dean Koontz novel. Koontz’s prose is beyond tight. His suspenseful plots hurl readers headlong into raucous adventures in which the stakes for his protagonists are extreme and, for humanity, often dire. His heroes…
In one of his most moving speeches, President Ronald Reagan declared: “Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for…
With Roe v. Wade apparently teetering at the legal brink, the Libertarian Party (LP) has dropped its pro-abortion stance. Backers of the measure, members of the Mises Caucus, who seized control from the LP old guard, said they intended to eliminate a…
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron” stands apart as one of dystopian literature’s most poignant works, making up for its brevity in striking social commentary. The tale is set in the United States, year 2081. The newly ratified 211th,…
We Christians are joyful people. We are surrounded by an imperfect world. Which is why we turn to humor. A humorous look at things helps us to put what we see in perspective. But we are not just cheerful, we…
“Liberty’s Last Hope,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, December 14, 2021.
Over 100,000 died of drug overdoses in the U.S. during this last 12-month period measured by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a 30 percent jump from the year before, and, as the Irish Times (of all papers)…
My southwestern Ohio town has seen a series of attention-grabbing demonstrations by hospital employees. They object to the hospital’s imposition of a vaccine mandate, and they claim they should not be forced into compliance. The hospital continues to maintain that…
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