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By all accounts, Jacob Clynick was a healthy 13-year-old boy.

A spectre haunts the darkest corners of the Democratic Party — the spectre of Democratic Socialism.

Around 89 percent of Californians vote by mail, which is understandable given the increasing complexity of our ballot choices.

This entry in the Five Black Pills series is going to build on the previous three, which covered feminism and its destruction of the West’s demographics, Islam and the Left’s use of immigration to break Christendom, and the corruption of the managerial el…

The “peaceful student protests” taking place in France have resulted in ruined businesses, burned historic buildings, and desecrated statues.

The Book of Valor: America’s Story of Survival, Gallantry, & Grace By Martha MacCallum HarperCollins, 224 pages, $35 “This is a story of America,” Martha MacCallum writes in the author’s note to The Book of Valor: America’s Story of Survival, Gallantry &…

When James Franklin was dismissed last October as head football coach at Penn State, Athletic Director Pat Kraft vowed the university would pursue a higher standard of football excellence.

Tariffs are a fundamental denial of economic freedom that makes America less competitive worldwide.

For the poly-sport, October is an embarrassment of riches.

“And so, my fellow Americans.

In my current crusade to reverse the depressive decline in fiction reading, this year I’m replacing my annual Halloween film recommendations with haunting book suggestions.

In Revolutionary France, the guillotine was a privilege reserved for the nobility, though the nobles themselves would surely have preferred a different sort of privilege.

The promise and peril of artificial intelligence (AI), or what President Trump prefers to call “super intelligence” (SI), are being hotly debated throughout this country and throughout the world.

There is a magical mystery myth prevailing in our great United States of America.

The Charger is going to get its V8 back, probably sometime next year (2027), but only in 6.2-liter supercharged Hellcat form, and that means it’s probably going to be priced beyond the means of most of the people who’d love to own one.

As traditional marriage and monogamy come under attack, we must ask a serious question: Can our democratic republic survive the erosion of these foundations?

Narcissism is statistically on the rise in America.

We’re watching what’s happening in France, and we’re watching the liars of the corporate press assure us that the riots, looting, burning down of commercial establishments and town halls, and other detestable attacks on civilization are happening because…

For weeks, the left-wing media were breathlessly reporting that the crowds for Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies were going to be enormous.

Former President Barack Obama once again waded into Middle Eastern affairs, stating in Belfast, Ireland, in a paid gig with an audience of about 7,000 people, that the Jews of British Mandatory Palestine “took land off people and [those people] were expel…

(For those just joining us, the term “SGO” was coined by my late great friend, former Navy SEAL Al Clark.

“Rioting in France,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Oct. 18, 2026.

Foreign policy realism and foreign policy restraint are not the same thing.

In 1980, God watched our nation remove displays of the Ten Commandments in classrooms after the Supreme Court held, in Stone v.

“Capital punishment presents moral questions that philosophers, theologians, and statesmen have grappled with for millennia,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a 2015 concurring opinion, so the Constitution’s Framers “handled it the same way t…

A high-profile lawsuit involving a female student at Cornell University (under the pseudonym of ‘Jane Doe’) and seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity is receiving national attention.

While Hamas continues its forever war against Israel following its attack on the Jewish state on October 7, 2023, often ignored is how the Trump administration is combating Hamas’ growing threat to the U.S. — namely its fundraising and its growing inspira…

In 1941, a former Trotskyist who would go on to become a luminary in the conservative movement, James Burnham, published a very influential book.

Marco Rubio delivered the first speech of the 2028 presidential campaign where none of his votes come from but from where all of our votes come.

Don Lemon handicaps the possibility of him running for president at 2-to-1 in favor.

Most Americans apparently agree on at least one thing.

Alonso Quijano is the kind of man who makes most of us feel uncomfortable.

Eight elections in Latin America are indicating a new shift towards the Right: Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, and Brazil.

As the credits for NAZA rolled after its debut on September 10 at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, the audience at the Palazzo del Cinema responded with a record breaking 25-minute standing ovation.

I’d intended this column to be the third installment of my Five Black Pills series (the first, covering feminism, is here, and the second, discussing the Islamic invasion of America, is here).

A satirical illustration reflecting global concerns over health transparency and potential disease outbreaks in Russia.

No national controversy is complete until Amanda Marcotte has made a fool of herself about it, and the feminist writer has gotten a good head start on the so-called “Cornell 7” case.

Eva Marie Saint, born before the first talking motion picture, died yesterday at 102.

EDGEWOOD, Pennsylvania — The Evans family threw a Halloween party every year in their backyard on Linden Avenue.

“Try not to vote by mail.”

A 2024 study from the Cultural Research Center found that over 30 million Christians were likely to stay home instead of voting in the election.

Attempts to pull off a 9/11-type attack on Israel and stage a drone attack against a strategic U.S. air base in the U.K. took place within days of each other last week.

To say that the war with Iran has been poorly fought is a gross understatement.

“Something About Russia Insisting Everything Is Fine After the Lab Leak Death Is Making Us Nervous,” ran one headline.

There are people you interview, and there are people you sit down with and immediately start plotting how to get in trouble with them.

A newborn baby born via surrogate went viral on social media for being frustrated trying to root and latch.

The unstated subtext of the 2028 race for the Republican nomination for president involves fissures over foreign policy.

The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading … You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.

The famous writer Joseph Conrad put his finger on this long ago, saying: “You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”

Right now, I’m doing a lot of podcast and radio interviews, which is a thing you do when you have a book out — and of course I do, and of course it’s imperative that everybody here go to MikeHolman.com and grab your copy of The Necessary Men, or at least…