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by | Mar 11, 2024

Many decades ago, when I was a kid, I found the Oscars exciting. It was a time when people went to the movies more than they do now, and when the movies that got nominated for Oscars were, to a…

by | Feb 17, 2024

The very first command God gives to the first humans is to be fruitful and multiply. If there aren’t people, then there are no commandments and no wisdom, for who would be there to contemplate or to act? But with…

by | Jan 4, 2024

The American Spectator’s founder and editor in chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., joined C-SPAN on its Booknotes+ podcast to discuss his memoir, How Do We Get Out of Here?: Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator―From…

by | Dec 26, 2023

Pack your bugout bags for 2024.

by | Oct 12, 2023

Circumstances are dire in Poland under the rule of the conservative Law & Justice (PiS) party, if you’re to believe recent media coverage.   In the Los Angeles Times, journalist and author Kati Marton warns, “When Poles go to vote this…

by | Sep 27, 2023

The Hoover Institution’s Thomas Sowell has written another book — bringing the total to more than 40. Even more remarkable is that he finished writing his latest book — Social Justice Fallacies — at the age of 93. He recently…

by | Sep 26, 2023

Once upon a time, presidential debates were a civilized matter. At the very first televised presidential debate between Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon on Sept. 26, 1960, the two presidential hopefuls donned suits and ties in…

by | Aug 15, 2023

Latin America’s youth are on the march, if a recent survey is any indication — but we won’t like where they’re headed.  As the Economist pointed out on July 20, 2023, the latest Latinobarómetro contains several troubling indicators for the…

by | Jul 11, 2023

WASHINGTON — I have spent the last three weeks in a very pleasant place, Europe. Not in Moscow, nor in Kyiv, nor even in Paris. Actually, I have been in London — London, the city that never sleeps or, at…

by | Jun 24, 2023

Lee Smith concluded a white-hot article in Tablet last week on the Espionage Act prosecution of Donald Trump, laying bare our country’s need for a sound political vision. Look at the last half century alone, from Lebanon and Somalia to…

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