The American Spectator

In his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, President George Washington reached a stirring conclusion: “May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this l...

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Wikipedia defines “truth” as “being in accord with fact or reality.” That’s why I wanted to redefine truth to be malleable and partisan when I ran Wikipedia. Now that I head NPR, I seek...

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We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. — W.H. Auden, “The Age of Anxiety” (1948) The persisten...

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WASHINGTON — I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan. District Attorney Alvin Bragg ha...

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On March 13, 2013, I stood among the thousands gathered in Saint Peter’s Square who witnessed the moment when Jorge Bergoglio, the Jesuit cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires, walked out onto th...

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Drug abuse isn’t just an individual plague. The consequences of drug use extend far beyond the individual user, though decriminalization advocates often don’t acknowledge this reality. As wit...

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Unlike, for example, the shiny dolts who control Hollywood, this column prides itself on its capacity to learn. For example, last week’s Five Quick Things led with a condemnation of Alan Ritchs...

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A porn star, a convicted liar, and the publisher of the National Enquirer walk into a courtroom. It sounds like the beginning of a joke. It’s not. Except that it is. David Pecker, former publis...

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The Biden administration quietly ordered the withdrawal of more than 1,000 American troops from an important drone base in Niger. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, host Scott McKay e...

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Do you have a conservative face or a liberal face? Take a look in the mirror and answer yourself as soon as possible because it is quite possible that your ideology — at least what some robot t...

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