The Spectacle Ep. 473: Trump Made CAFE Standards Great Again

The Trump administration’s decision to keep the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards at 34.9 mpg instead of 50.4 mpg...

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:12:58 +0000

‘When Will Markets React to Debt?’ Is the Wrong Question

Is the federal government’s history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so,...

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:10:52 +0000

Learning to Read and the Crisis of Male Demoralization

The crisis of manliness comes with many names. Just this past week my American Spectator colleagues have approached it from...

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:10:51 +0000

How to Actually Save Local Newspapers

Local newspapers are hurting, and many communities have lost their local paper altogether. Newspapers lost the cash cow of classified...

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:07:52 +0000

The Spectacle Ep. 472: The Age of Miracles: Elon Musk’s Starship Was Made to Fly

SpaceX made history once again by launching the Starship rocket into Earth’s low orbit for the first time. (RELATED: Musk...

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:07:51 +0000

Trump Orders Agencies to Drop ‘AI’ for ‘Super Intelligence’

It was William Shakespeare who penned that famous locution: “That which we call a rose / By any other name...

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:04:53 +0000

New York’s Murderous Jihad Against Red-State Infidels Must Have Consequences

I don’t follow New York politics as heavily, perhaps, as I should. I will defend myself by saying I come...

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:04:51 +0000

The Intellectual Rot Behind Campus Antisemitism

American Intellectual Antisemitism: The Anti-Jewish Movement Tearing Through Our Universities By: Shai Davidai Post Hill Press, 352 pages, $30 It...

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:31:51 +0000

Newsom’s Capitalist Manifesto

“Capitalism as we know it is not working,” Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proclaimed. “Something’s fundamentally broken here,” and so on....

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:10:51 +0000

A Conservative Answer to the ‘National Freakout’ Over AI

When Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, joined by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google’s Demis Hassabis, and xAI’s Elon Musk, warns that artificial intelligence...

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:07:52 +0000