Same Statue, Different Liberty

The refurbishing of the Statue of Liberty, which has been hoisting its torch above New York Harbor since October 1886, has evoked a torrent of lavishly tendentious praise in the ...

Hunter S. Thompson

The Ho-Hum Diary

Writers traditionally bemoan how the movie industry fails to appreciate them. Yet there are more films about writers than there is demand from the paying public for motion ...

Muammar Gaddafi

Gaddafi’s Bitter (and Sore) End

Being a dictator must be an amazing intoxicant. Given the choice between keeping his throne or living a life of lavish luxury in exile, Muammar Gaddafi chose to stay “in ...

Cheating 101

Dear Delphi, I broke up with my daughter’s mother over a year ago, but I have been over to her place a few times and have slept with her. I love my current girlfriend very much ...

Sucking all the Fun out of Halloween

The Cultural Marxists are dressed as vampires this Halloween, baring their fangs and sucking the fun out of everything again. In their inimitably dictatorial and humor-free ...

New Witch Hunts for Halloween

An elementary-school principal in Somerville, Massachusetts is out to abolish Halloween, among other innocuous celebrations, because it is “insensitive” to witches or ...

This Ghastly Week

The seven billion huddled residents of this shimmering, twinkling, spinning orb undoubtedly performed millions of kind acts and noble deeds over the past week. The hungry were ...

Halloween in the Golden State

Here in California, Halloween is a season as much as a single holiday, beginning roughly in late August when the first magazines featuring holiday crafts appear, swiftly followed ...

Elle and Blair Fowler

Ideology: A Waste of Time

My executive editor at a Florida magazine, Hardy Burt, informed me at lunch one day, “God is a girl!” This was after his first vodka martini. I can’t imagine ...

Tweet Away, Ye Morons

FORT WORTH, TEXAS—To the best state in the Union for the annual John Randolph Club meeting of true conservatives, hip, hip. No posturing peacocks spouting gibberish learned at ...

Zachary Quinto and Penn Badgley

Insider Traitors

Among this season’s intelligent movies about smart people doing complex jobs, the Wall Street film Margin Call ranks ahead of Contagion and The Ides of March and behind only ...

Mark Garfield Moore aka Prezidenteeh

A Canadian Hip-Hop Serial Killer?

Michael Moore’s unsolicited tongue baths to the contrary, Canada’s crime rate isn’t lower because we have fewer guns than America, as yet another peer-reviewed study proved ...

Dangerous Wild Animals Murdered LIVE on TV!

“Uh, there’s a lion…standing there under the streetlight,” the 911 caller told the Ohio dispatcher. Another caller declared, “I think I’ve just seen one. Looked ...

The Spectator’s Simple Genius

The London Spectator is the oldest weekly magazine of the English-speaking world, a jewel of a magazine as distinguished and respected as it is elegantly written. It was first ...

Acting Foolish in Public…for Peace

Despite the fact that we’ve given peace several chances only to be repeatedly disappointed, there’s always some wide-eyed new group willing to give peace yet another chance. ...

Muammar Gaddafi

Peaceful Globalists Expedite Libyan Dictator’s Murder

The two big books of the moment are Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (which I reviewed in the November issue of The American ...


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