Overnight in New Mexico
The three of us sat on folding chairs around the table where Dick had the microphone plugged into a tape…
The era of ideological, overreaching and omnipresent government
It was a law of classical political philosophy that democratic polities devolve inevitably into tyrannical ones. This law is being…
Should elders be respected?
For the left, the world has always been, and always will be, a scandal. In this American election year, it…
The age of mass revenge
Journalists have never been noted for originality in their choice of metaphor, so readers must be wearied by now of…
A history of intellect
It has it been widely noted that, as Western culture generally has grown steadily more materialistic in its values and…
The establishment and the mob
In The Revolt of the Masses — first published in 1930 — José Ortega y Gasset proposed that the most important fact…
Joe Biden is the phantom of the Potomac
The day after the election last week, Roger Kimball posted a column here at The Spectator World acknowledging that he…
The slumber of the Anglosphere
The countries we call Anglo-Saxon (Great Britain, the Commonwealth and the United States) have been known for centuries for their…
Time to invoke the 25th Amendment against Biden?
President Biden’s senile verbal blunders over the past few days have prompted renewed speculation over his mental competency. It’s even…
A Cheney imperiled
Kemmerer, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has the political brain of a sucked egg, as her egregiously self-destructive decision to join…
The future of populist conservatism
Laramie, Wyoming William Kristol, a Grand Poobah of neoconservatism, is leaving the Republican party to join the donkeys of the…