John Cheever’s ‘Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor’

Set due east from the bright lights of Rockefeller Center and the charming windows of Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman,...

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:07:53 +0000

Trump Sends a Cajun to Press the Message to Greenland

On Sunday, President Trump showed that even during the week of Christmas he’s still capable of setting political fires in...

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:07:53 +0000

Genius Loci: Byung-Chul Han’s In Praise of the Earth

In Praise of the Earth: A Journey Into the Garden Byung-Chul Han (tr. Daniel Steuer) Polity Press, 160 pages, $19.95...

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:05:04 +0000

Guilt Isn’t Genetic

Nicki Minaj is not a theologian, a historian, or a political philosopher. However, during a Sunday conversation with Erika Kirk...

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:05:03 +0000

The Nation Must Face the Abortion Pill Legal Monster

It’s alive! No, not the unborn baby who just died from a drug-induced abortion, as happens every thirty seconds in...

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:05:02 +0000

The Spectator P.M. Ep. 179: 2025: The Death of Climate Change?

Climate change, which former President Joe Biden once hailed as the “number one issue facing humanity,” went on the Left’s...

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:22:58 +0000

A Missed Opportunity: Russia and the Decembrist Revolt

Imagine going to visit a relative in another country and discovering they had things that your own country did not....

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:25:51 +0000

Rules of Engagement and Command Decisions

When U.S. forces conducted a second strike on the survivors of an alleged drug smuggling boat destroyed off Venezuela last...

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:22:52 +0000

No Tears for the End of the American Empire

When I clicked on the website of The American Spectator Saturday morning and began to read Matthew Omolesky’s lament for...

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:22:51 +0000

Bread, Circuses, and Outrage

When I was a little kid, The Wizard of Oz came on TV once a year, usually on a Friday...

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:22:51 +0000