Los países de literatura indigente tienen historia desabrida. [Countries with an impoverished literature have an insipid history.] — Nicolás Gómez Dávila It has become something of an autumn tradition. The leaves change their verdant hues, mothballed sweaters come out of…
With the world on fire right now, with a tragic mess raging in the Middle East (which we’re covering in depth here at The American Spectator), I’m reluctant to chime in with some much-less-important baseball news, which is plainly superficial…
Most conservatives are well aware that American institutions of higher learning tend to be hopelessly woke. They not only attract the kinds of students who have been indoctrinated into the cult but prefer them to the normal individuals who find…
Some bullying tactics never change, but you would hope that people would eventually grow out of them. It seems the United States Department of Agriculture never did. Last year, the USDA proposed a rule change that would pressure public and…
Joint Force Quarterly, the premier journal of National Defense University (NDU) Press, has entered wokeland. The latest issue of the Quarterly features an article by Magdalena Bogacz, assistant professor at the Global College of PME at Air University, that argues…
Founded in 1977, Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) is America’s major organization for gay members of the GOP. There is much to admire about it. While virtually all other major gay-rights groups in America, such as Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and…
Pronouns are back in the news. And, no, we’re not talking about neopronouns, the latest gloss on language insanity given an injection of immediacy by CNN, among others. You may have seen these odd words in print — “xe/xyr,” “ze/zir,”…
Kids, go to school! It’s time to go back. Some will have already started. A ritual that we adults attend every year with a mixture of nostalgia and indifference: nostalgia because we remember the beautiful — or ugly — child…
It’s late Tuesday night here in Beverly Hills. The air is thick with humidity. I feel as if I could reach out and grab the air. The news is all about a hurricane that was supposedly brewing in the Baja…
Après la déconstruction: L’université au défi des idéologies By Emmanuelle Hénin, Xavier-Laurent Salvador, and Pierre-Henri Tavoillot (L’Odile Jacob, 482 pages, $43) Sixty university professors, along with intellectuals across multiple disciplines, convened at La Sorbonne in Paris on Jan. 7–8, 2022,…
