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That Fleeting Stupidity: Remembering the Horror and the Magic of Adolescence

I’ve come to write on the beach. I suppose exams are over, and this place feels like an anthill of...

Paris Tennis Thrills

First round in the second week at the legendary French Open, formally the Internationaux de France, and Frances Tiafoe, the...

The Emotional Displacement of Losing a Part of Your Community

PITTSBURGH — On April 19, 1926, an above-the-fold story in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times detailed the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese’s Bishop...

Riding Into Town on a Rainbow Stagecoach

‘Reverse Okies’ and Blue State Refugees — Another Wave Appears To Be Building

Following the declaration of the COVID national emergency in March 2020, blue states rapidly embraced the new command-and-control authority granted...

Meet the Post-Biden Democrats: Biden’s Democrats

Despite being desperate to put Biden behind them, Democrats can’t do it. Both Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg are routinely...

The Spectator P.M. Ep. 220: Democrats Scramble to Replace Gavin Newsom

What do Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer have in common? Besides running for California governor, both are incompetent and are...

Platner’s Nuts

The Trump-Kennedy Center Naming Kerfuffle, Part 2

Ya gotta love it. President Trump, an active player on the Board of the Kennedy Center, has had the audacity...

Why the West Needs the American Founding

The United States has always occupied a unique place in the civilization broadly known as the West. For one thing,...