As 2024 comes to a close, I’ve thought a lot over the past year about another year: 1984. Yes, 1984. What had me thinking were two recent political events felt keenly by readers of The American Spectator and any American…
The American Spectator editor Paul Kengor appeared on the nationally syndicated Mark Levin Show to discuss Russian hoaxes and interference, such as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s scandalous letter to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov in 1983 — a prime example of Russian…
The conservative movement this week lost an elder statesman, its dean. He was Lee Edwards, 92 years old. Edwards was so very important and dear to both the conservative movement and to me personally. In fact, I’ve dreaded writing this…
“We win, they lose.” That Reagan statement was a declaration for the ages, a denouement to the 20th century, encapsulating what Ronald Reagan did to defeat the Soviet Union and win the Cold War. There’s nary a Reaganite who doesn’t know…
President-elect Trump ran on a national security platform that promised a return to peace through strength, and within days of his re-election, the world is already responding. Qatar ejects the Hamas leadership while the terrorists beg for peace. After four…
The date: Oct. 27, 1964. The 1964 presidential race between incumbent Democrat President Lyndon Johnson and the GOP’s “Mr. Conservative — Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater — was racing to its end. Poll after poll showed Goldwater so far behind LBJ…
American Spectator editor Paul Kengor appeared on the Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special this past weekend to discuss what embodies and defines Marxism, Kamala Harris’ ties to the worldview, and Ronald Reagan’s legacy in comparison to Donald Trump’s. Please give a click to…
The following is adapted from R. Emmett Tyrrell’s memoir, How Do We Get Out of Here?: Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator―From Bobby Kennedy to Donald J. Trump. The American Spectator’s “big picture” includes the…
Left-wing journalist John Ganz has written a new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early Nineties, to answer the question we all want to know: “How did we get to today’s…
Behind Closed Doors: In the Room With Reagan & Nixon By Ken Khachigian (Post Hill Press, 496 pages, $35) Ken Khachigian, who worked as an aide and speechwriter to Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, has written a marvelous memoir…
