Our summer 2020 print magazine was going to be a reopening issue. Not an end-of-the-world issue. But then right before press time, three months of shutdown (and counting, in too many different places) took on a different coloring. Increasingly during…
You will remember the election of 2016 as you think about the election of 2020. Twenty sixteen was the election in which The American Spectator led all publications in predicting the outcome. We predicted a victory by Donald J. Trump….
A few lifetimes ago — meaning a few months ago — when cramming into a diner on a Sunday morning remained obligatory rather than forbidden, a spirited, intergenerational debate erupted as a result of behavior regulated by Miss Manners rather…
These are hard times, and many of us are drinking more than we probably should. Here in Alabama, we can’t get wine shipped to our homes, and that’s a problem. We tried a few years ago to pass a law…
In 1903, the Atlantic printed the thoughts of the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott on why women widely did not, and should not, want the right to vote: In this work of direct ministry to the individual, this work of character-building, which…
As the COVID-19 pandemic controls the airwaves and the minds of millions of Americans, one resilient community is coming together to bring a sense of normalcy amid the chaos: musicians. The live performance industry practically vanished overnight amid social distancing…
COVID-19 hasn’t finished wreaking havoc on the world. Its physical, economic, and political effects will linger and affect the world for years to come. Because those effects are changing the world, we should begin to analyze how our foreign policy…
There’s a rule of thumb among disaster response teams that a crisis isn’t really a crisis until the Waffle House closes. The Atlanta-based chain hardly shuts down for anything: not hurricanes, not tornados, not floods. Waffle Houses are so reliably…
The Western theme, beset by legends and myths that too easily turn to clichés, is peopled by settlers and seekers, flawed heroes, outlaws, men and women who are giving — or mean. What else would one expect, after all? Western…
