In this episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay talk about a number of things that circulate around a single theme — namely, that the Western order, which is built around the Judeo-Christian concept that each…
College enrollments in the humanities have declined, even more than the general fall in the numbers attending college. West Virginia University recently laid off numerous faculty in the humanities, especially foreign languages, and other schools have done so on a…
Marc Rowan, genius capitalist, worthy of Carnegie and Rockefeller in his understanding of philanthropy, going against his beloved alma mater, UPenn, for its failure of nerve against the pro-Hamas fascists. And now Bill Maher, with a short speech worthy of…
A few days ago, in rejecting the many calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza War, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “The Bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war. This is a…
The other day at a friends-of-the library, used-book sale, I picked up a copy of Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids. The author recounts a month’s worth of experience in Maine, doing time as a substitute teacher with…
Federico Fellini is often lauded for the highly imaginative quality of his films. Indeed, so powerful is the association of the Italian director with the surreal and the fantastic that his last name has been incorporated into the English language…
After World War I, H.L. Mencken wrote, “What men will fight for seems to be worth looking into.” Indeed. With recruiting in the tank, veterans in depression, and a Sino-Russian flotilla projecting power by our 49th state, it might just…
I recently read a conservative writer who opined: “We have lost the culture wars” (not in the pages of The American Spectator, by the way). The author’s announcement was a veritable white flag, a signal that we conservatives should do…
Liberal Democrat Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, recently raised more than a few eyebrows when he observed, “When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools.” While the mayor’s traditional liberal allies expressed concern with his…
How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises By Spencer Klavan (Regnery Publishing, 256 pages, $30) “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana. In his stirring new book, How to…