Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. I suppose we should have seen it coming. After all, it was pretty predictable, given trends such as the explosion and heightened usability of AI applications; rising levels of loneliness, … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. The eyes of the world are focused on Rome right now because of the death of the pope, but they should also be directed at Italy’s increasingly influential prime minister, … Continue reading
Let’s not kid ourselves. Pennsylvanians who want to buy adult-use cannabis are just driving across the border to one of our five neighboring states where it’s legal. Up to 60% of the customers at those stores just over the border … Continue reading
$4.8 million is the NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) valuation of Cooper Flagg, a freshman Duke basketball player. How is that even possible? In essence, Duke was able to buy the hired gun, Flagg, one of the most highly decorated … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. There’s an old story that, sometime in the 1960s, NASA spent millions to create a pen that worked in space. American engineers worked for years on a high-tech marvel that could write … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. Our 2024 Reagan film received widespread acclaim from moviegoers (albeit not from ideologically motivated critics) for the roles rendered by several key actors. They included Dennis Quaid as Reagan, David Henrie as young Reagan, Penelope Ann Miller as … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This paper is a production of the Center for Faith & Public Life. To learn more about the Center, please click here. To view, print, or share the final paper, please click here. Frank Reich has set himself … Continue reading
In July of 1863 at the battle of Gettysburg, Confederate forces reached their high-water mark during Pickett’s charge. While no one knew it as a high-water mark at the time, that point marked the beginning of the end for the … Continue reading
“Today we must reckon with the harsh reality that authoritarianism has arrived in America, that it’s broadly popular and that millions of our fellow citizens have given it their votes.” LA Times “This was a conquering of the nation not … Continue reading
Although Republicans won resounding political victories across the country this November, there is one area where conservatives consistently lost: abortion. Seven of 10 state-level pro-abortion laws passed—including in four states that Donald Trump won—and Florida’s pro-choice law only failed to … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. Few scientific efforts have been so dramatically ruined by politics as climate science. For over 30 years, thousands of climate scientists have pushed the message that the world is in … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. One of the cool things about being a biographer with special expertise on a specific subject — in my case, Ronald Reagan — is that readers come to you with … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. In my previous column, I described the socialistic character of the greens’ masterplan for American society in the name of “climate change.” In one important way, the current green iteration … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. Over five years ago, I reported on the socialist agenda of the climate change alarmists and the essentially socialistic character of what was then called “the Green New Deal.” The GND presented an … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. A particularly idiotic aphorism touted by our mindless culture is this cliché: Wait until you have enough money before you have kids. This nugget serves as secular wisdom, courtesy of … Continue reading
In August 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency with an unlikely cause: the video-sharing app TikTok. At issue was TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, and its close connections with the Chinese Communist Party. Trump argued that TikTok gave the CCP “access … Continue reading
Social media has been abuzz since it became known that Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark, the number one draft pick in the WNBA, will make only $76,535 this year playing with the Indiana Fever. By contrast, the NBA’s most recent No. … Continue reading
The argument of South Carolina’s women basketball coach Dawn Staley prior to Sunday’s game that if Caitlin Clark led Iowa to the national championship it “would seal the deal” for considering her the GOAT of women’s basketball is ludicrous. Clark … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: The “Author Q&A” is an e-publication from the Institute for Faith & Freedom at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an author of an intriguing new book that we hope will prove illuminating to … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. One figure that liberals didn’t commemorate this Black History Month is Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther Party ringleader of the 1960s. The reason is no great mystery: Had Cleaver remained … Continue reading
