So the 2023 Christmas season is about to do the annual post-Christmas fade. Which in turn means the New Year arrives with a whole year ahead in which, this presidential election year of 2024, to read or re-read some of…
Why should conservatives look to Fusionism as they debate, often with raised voices, the future of conservatism? Because Fusionism offers a philosophy of prudence not rashness; tradition not the impulse of the moment; a transcendent order not a fatal conceit;…
Politics, wrote James Burnham in his book The Machiavellians (1943), is about the struggle for power among elites. Those political elites, Burnham contended in The Managerial Revolution (1941), are interested first and foremost in their own power and privileges. And…
One of our young staff, Luther Ray Abel, raised an interesting point the other day in one of our subscriber-only letters about the kinds of issues that divide conservative intellectuals, causing long-time friends to turn on each other and become…
Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a draft of proposed new guidelines for mergers and acquisitions. Sounds like a problem reserved for people who sit in board rooms, right? Not exactly. Such rules…
As America celebrated the federal holiday named in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the sad reality is that the dream of integration celebrated by Dr. King in that famous 1963 speech — and elsewhere — is being flatly…
From R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Editor-in-Chief of The American Spectator For years, I have always been able to get a laugh or two by referring to myself as The American Spectator’s Editor-in-Chief-for-Life. However, since I had to give up my left hip…
The other day in this space, I headlined this: New York Attorney General Letitia James Must Resign — and Be Prosecuted for Abuse of Power Her anti-Trump lawsuit is a staggering criminalization of politics. Make no mistake. Letitia James is…
Fox News and other media outlets report that actor Harrison Ford got emotional when he announced at Disney’s D23 expo on Saturday that the fifth installment of the Indiana Jones movies will be his last time portraying the popular action-movie…
