The sadness of Saturday’s final farewell to Pope Francis was tempered by a glimmer of hope flickering from the baptistry of Saint Peter’s Basilica. Presidents Trump and Zelenskyy sat together for a few moments in private to discuss a deal…
Russia is positioning forces for a major spring offensive all along Ukraine’s front line, which may last well into the summer, according to many analysts. Putin wants to fully control at least three of Ukraine’s four eastern regions prior to…
“Zelensky’s decision to expose the cream of his army to occupy a piece of vacant wasteland in the world’s largest country, to supposedly strengthen his bargaining power with Putin, could backfire. Russia can now threaten to annihilate his crack troops…
I. Anthropologists call it schismogenesis — the process by which one group’s behavior elicits a contrasting response from the other, producing a feedback loop of social differentiation. Left unchecked, schismogenesis will eventually result in discrete cultural antitypes, the likes of…
WASHINGTON — This column is about how Washington and Kyiv got to that moment Friday when President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to leave the White House after a contentious meeting. The rift between Trump and Zelenskyy, according…
James Burnham and William F. Buckley Jr. must be turning over in their graves as their successors at National Review again join the Democratic and neoconservative war party. It was only about 20 years ago that National Review’s neocons cheered…
In a fiery dispute that went viral worldwide, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left Washington, D.C., empty-handed due to his disrespectful attitude toward President Trump and Vice President JD Vance. In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay analyze…
The date: October 11-12, 1986. As a young staffer in the Reagan White House Political Affairs Office, I, along with other colleagues, was frustrated. The 1986 congressional elections were in full swing, and it was our responsibility to arrange for…
And the award for best actor goes to … Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This weekend’s Academy Awards ceremony did not celebrate the performative talents of Zelenskyy. Sure, Dayrl Hannah said “Slava Ukraine” (“glory to Ukraine”) before presenting the Oscar for best film…
