Back in August, I wrote a piece on Brittney Griner, America’s most famous WNBA player turned vaper-doper and political prisoner to Vladimir Putin and the Russians. Last February, the 31-year-old Griner illegally brought drugs into Russia. That is not a…
Terrible is the situation of a small country that stands alone. — Miklós Bánffy, Twenty-Five Years (1945) It is May 26, 2006, and the Hungarian Socialist Party is holding its annual congress in the bucolic lakeside village of Balatonőszöd. The attendees…
“Chinese Election: No Opposition,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, Oct. 24, 2022.
Just as there are fundamental laws of nature, among which can be counted the laws of conservation of energy, mass, and linear momentum, so too are there fundamental laws of human nature, which may be said to include the law…
“Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.” That line is often misattributed to professional baseball player Yogi Berra, but it actually is a Danish proverb that was repeated by Niels Bohr, the scientist who figured out the structure of the…
Livening up a Thursday fundraiser, President Joe Biden said, “Think about it. We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis. We’ve got a guy I know fairly well; his name is Vladimir Putin…….
The American foreign policy debate just shifted into high gear with an op-ed piece in the Washington Times by former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo and an essay in Foreign Affairs by Robert D. Kaplan, perhaps our nation’s…
On Monday, Danish and Swedish seismologists measured what they say were explosions along the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which bring Russian gas to Germany and the rest of Western Europe. Those explosions released and probably will continue to…
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against…
Washington — The enormous outpouring of affection for Queen Elizabeth II has recently demonstrated to the world that monarchy is not dead. Now attention will turn to King Charles III, and we shall see how he will do. As I…