In this episode of The Spectacle, Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss Democrats’ pleas for pandemic amnesty, including Atlantic writer Emily Oster’s article titled “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty” MELISSA MACKENZIE: The chick who wrote it wants COVID amnesty. And,…
The American Spectator is delighted to announce our new podcast, The Spectacle! Hosted by Melissa Mackenzie, our publisher, and Scott McKay, a contributing editor, the podcast will cover the spectacle of modern politics and culture with the fearlessness that characterizes…
Sometimes, in creating awareness of a problem, it can be just as necessary to point out what is not an example of that problem as to point out what is. When it comes to corporate welfare, sometimes meaningful definitions are…
Sometimes, in creating awareness of a problem, it can be just as necessary to point out what is not an example of that problem as to point out what is. When it comes to corporate welfare, sometimes meaningful definitions are…
Huh? A contest to identify the most clueless statement by John Kerry would doubtless lead to an avalanche of entries, most of them worthy. But he outdid himself today in his lame attempt today to justify the snit Barack Obama…
Gwen Ifill, co-host of PBS NewsHour and exceptionally accomplished journalist, passed away today at the age of 61. I only met Gwen Ifill once, when she and her team invited me to participate in a nationally televised PBS special on…
How did Bob Tyrrell get it so right? No other magazine recognized Donald’s potential. He and Jeff Lord were there in 2013 when Donald talked at our Robert L. Bartley Dinner. They saw something in the president-elect’s demeanor and message…
There’s all this speculation about the election. And it’s all horsefeathers. No one has a clue, because the voting patterns on this one will be entirely different from previous elections. That’s why I’m about to tell you what’s really going…
The Hillarity at the New York Times continues. The other day it published an op-ed piece “Why American Needs a Female President.” It was by one Angie Kim, a writer in Virginia who as a third-grader in South Korea had…
Now that the polls have tightened, some of the NeverTrumpers are beginning to wonder whether Trump is quite so horrible after all. There are, after all, jobs to given out, should he win. I regard this as entirely amusing, as…
