This column isn’t what you probably expect it to be. I’m sure you read that headline and expected we’re going to be decrying the legacy corporate propaganda press and its ubiquitous fearmongering over the economic effects of the tariffs which…
As a proud Gen Xer, I’ve always found Watergate to be quite a peculiar scandal. Especially as a kid and a young adult. Peculiar in the sense that Watergate never really seemed like all that big a deal. At the…
Not to get faux-erudite; Tocqueville was required reading when I was in school, and a blessed requirement that was. I returned to the famous concluding peroration after reading about the negotiations the president views as the necessary end to the…
Since World War II, American presidents have made some disastrous decisions taking the nation into pointless wars: George W. Bush’s search for nonexistent weapons of mass destructions in Iraq or LBJ’s major expansion of United States involvement in Vietnam being…
Since the fall of 1917, when Lenin seized power in Russia, the evils of communism have been exposed by courageous witnesses, some of whom emerged from “penal” and forced labor camps that Alexander Solzhenitsyn described as the essence of communism….
When I first stepped onto the college quad, I was just another young man, making his way, surveying the lay of the land. For me, however, there were a few personal firsts playing out in real time to which none…
Jerome R. Daly, the helicopter pilot who became a Catholic priest, flew 2,000 hours in three tours. He earned 80 (this is not a typo) citations for bravery, including the Silver Star, three Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Bronze Stars for…
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh installment in a series by Speaker Gingrich on American despotism. Listen to The American Spectator’s exclusive interview with the Speaker here. Find the first in the series here, the second here, the third here, the fourth here, the fifth here, and the…
Withdrawing support for Ukraine based on the belief that the war is akin to Vietnam is not supported by history. After the 1954 defeat of the French, a peace agreement was brokered in Vietnam, and free elections were to be…