by | Jan 9, 2025

Jimmy Carter’s funeral was Thursday, so you’d figure that might be one of the items in this week’s 5QT. It isn’t. Melissa summed up those proceedings exceedingly well, and I don’t have much of anything to add. Besides, I was…

by | Dec 30, 2024

The question for those House Republicans opposing the re-election of House Speaker Mike Johnson is an obvious one. That would be: If not Speaker Johnson — who? And the glaringly obvious answer to that glaringly obvious question is: The Johnson…

by | Dec 12, 2024

Unsurprisingly, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has called it. A professional historian by trade, Gingrich has put out his latest at gingrich360.com, with the headline: “President-Elect Trump: The De Facto President.” Among other things, the former speaker says this: I thought…

by | Jan 29, 2024

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich ably defined, in a syndicated column on Monday, the findings that pollster Scott Rasmussen had uncovered in several surveys but distilled earlier this month: There’s a group of Americans out there who must be marginalized…

by | Oct 9, 2023

“The more you study modern American government,” Speaker Newt Gingrich writes in “American Despotism,” the first installment of his new American Spectator series, “the more you realize that totalitarian efforts are all around us — and they have been winning…

by | Oct 7, 2023

“America is now in the deepest, most dangerous constitutional crisis since the hostility in the 1850s that led to secession and civil war,” Speaker Newt Gingrich writes in “American Despotism,” the first installment of his new American Spectator series. “The…

by | Sep 20, 2023

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich led the Republican Party to victory in 1994, when the GOP took back the majority in Congress for the first time in 40 years. He tells the story in detail in his book,…

by | Sep 6, 2023

Author’s Note: The complex patterns that have led to the greatest crisis of constitutional government and rule of law since the Civil War are far bigger, involve far more people, and are ultimately more dangerous to American freedom than the…

by | Aug 18, 2023

Between Fani Willis’ indictment, the denouement of The Blind Side, and Podesta — man, what a week, huh? It’s that old Chinese saying, “May you live in interesting times,” just manifested right in our faces. Of course, that old saying…

by | May 30, 2023

The following is an exclusive Q&A between The American Spectator editor Paul Kengor and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on his new book, March to the Majority: The Real Story of the Republican Revolution, written with Joe Gaylord,…

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