Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Overnight in New Mexico

19 August 2024 9:30 pm

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

19 July 2024 2:07 am

It was a law of classical political philosophy that democratic polities devolve inevitably into tyrannical ones. This law is being…

Should elders be respected?

15 May 2024 8:20 pm

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

17 March 2024 4:35 pm

Journalists have never been noted for originality in their choice of metaphor, so readers must be wearied by now of…

A history of intellect

21 December 2023 9:30 am

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

29 September 2023 11:46 pm

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

18 November 2022 12:44 am

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

11 October 2022 1:55 pm

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?

31 March 2022 1:22 pm

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

17 September 2021 2:23 pm

Kemmerer, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has the political brain of a sucked egg, as her egregiously self-destructive decision to join…

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The future of populist conservatism

5 September 2020 1:15 am

Laramie, Wyoming William Kristol, a Grand Poobah of neoconservatism, is leaving the Republican party to join the donkeys of the…