Several writers (including The American Spectator’s own Daniel J. Flynn) have been calling our attention to the reappearance of a rare phenomenon in American politics — a defeated incumbent trying another run at the presidency. Only once was this done…
It was a sensible decision, cancelling a phony right manufactured by seven politically motivated justices half a century ago. The 1973 decision led to roughly as many deaths as did World War II. It takes no time at all for…
In his 1838 Lyceum Address in Springfield, Illinois, a 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln spoke on “the perpetuation of our political institutions.” The speech was eerily prescient, coming 23 years as it did before then-President Lincoln presided over a nation tragically brought…
Friday Here I am in Washington, my hometown. The most beautiful city in the world. Just a super city of broad boulevards, a magnificent grassy Mall, spectacular neoclassical buildings and monuments, the Athens of our era. It was conceived, planned,…
President Trump sent the D.C. establishment into hysterics by running on industrial policy, national economics, immigration restriction, and skepticism of globalism. But Trump’s economic worldview is not new; its core tenets were put forth by the Republican Party at its…
The American Civil War wasn’t just about abolishing slavery. I know you may have been taught something different in grade school, as I was. But in the mind of Abraham Lincoln, who led the North, saving the Union was paramount…
It’s impossible to divorce politics and religion. We earnestly hope people are motivated in their political commitments by their deepest sense of who they are and what is their purpose here and are imbued with the consciousness that we are…
Last week in his morning newsletter, American Spectator writer Daniel J. Flynn summed up the Trump years in a single paragraph. He ended it with these words: Republicans evolved from invertebrates to vertebrates in the past four years. Donald Trump…
One of the things that bothered me most about the Obama presidency was the hero-worship of him by the left and, if you will pardon the redundancy, the media. Actually, hero-worship isn’t quite strong enough. After all, magazines printed images…
