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by | Apr 7, 2024

Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America By Ted Cruz (Regnery, 368 pages, $33) Are you woke? The very word elicits chuckles. As it should. In fact, I’m actually grateful for the word woke. It’s a silly-sounding word that…

by | Mar 17, 2024

On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, host Melissa Mackenzie is joined by Dr. Eithan Haim, a Texas Children’s Hospital general surgeon. Haim discusses his ongoing legal battles after blowing the whistle on the hospital’s secret transgender. They comment on the important…

by | Mar 13, 2024

For years, liberals have scoffed at the idea that standardized testing is the best predictor of academic success. The National Education Association, for instance, claims standardized tests are “both inequitable and ineffective at gauging what students know.” Activists’ campaign against…

by | Feb 23, 2024

Why is Joe Biden prosecuting Texas instead of sanctuary cities? On one hand, Texas has the audacity to defend itself, and America’s border in the process. On the other hand, sanctuary cities are undercutting federal immigration law enforcement efforts. It…

by and | Feb 16, 2024

You will likely hear little to nothing about the trans shooter with “Palestine” scrawled across her gun who opened fire in Joel Osteen’s megachurch in suburban Houston. That’s because the shooting fits none of the narratives the Left wants us…

by | Jan 26, 2024

The adjective “Orwellian” can be overused in our political discourse. But how else to describe a situation in which the federal government abdicates its responsibility to secure the nation’s wide-open border and then, when a state steps up to help…

by | Jan 26, 2024

It’s nice to be validated once in a while, especially when you know something is obviously true and yet it feels like nobody else is saying it. And the clip I’m about to show you satisfies that need to a…

by | Jan 22, 2024

Walter Samuel, a pseudonym for “a prolific international affairs writer and academic,” penned a quite interesting piece for the website of AMAC, the Association of Mature American Citizens (perhaps best described as the conservative version of AARP) last week. Samuel’s…

by | Jan 20, 2024

American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States By Roger L. Simon (Encounter Books, 224 pages, $30) Among the holdings in the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art are two paintings…

by | Jan 14, 2024

Republicans’ harrumphing at the temporary disappearance of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are missing the point amidst the Biden administration’s clown show this week. That, coupled with the U.S. and U.K. strikes on the Houthis, Biden’s green-lighting a Chinese attack on…

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