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Paid articleI Urged Ronald Reagan to Build a Conservative Counterculture (September 2024)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS I Urged Ronald Reagan to Build a Conservative Counterculture His staffers wanted nothing to do with it. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The following is adapted from R....
Paid articleLife Is Short, But Eternity Is Forever (September 2024)
THE CURRENT CRISIS Life Is Short, But Eternity Is Forever Eventually, I came to the conclusion that God has been at the center of my life. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The following is an...
Paid articleMilton Friedman's Victory (July 2023)
Milton Friedman’s Victory It took Milton a lifetime to popularize vouchers, but today he is winning. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. WASHINGTON — Who is buried in Grant’s tomb? Actually, Ulysses S....
Paid articleIntroducing The American Spectator’s New Editor (September 2022)
THE CURRENT CRISIS Introducing The American Spectator’s New Editor Paul Kengor, a professor, author, and longtime contributor, will take on the role. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. For...
Paid articleDonald Trump Fights Back (April 2022)
THE CURRENT CRISIS Donald Trump Fights Back His lawsuit claims the Russia Collusion Hoax was worse than Watergate. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I read a front-page report recently in the...
Paid articleJoe Biden, From Comedy to Tragedy (September 2021)
THE CURRENT CRISIS Joe Biden, From Comedy to Tragedy Joe has been living on a multiplicity of lies for years. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. How could a comic figure from the world of...
Paid articleMy Money Is On the President (December 2020)
THE CURRENT CRISIS My Money Is on the President History will repeat itself. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. You will remember the election of 2016 as you think about the election of 2020....
Paid articleThe Pope's Bugaboos (March 2020)
THE CURRENT CRISIS The Pope’s Bugaboos Francis fails to understand America, and capitalism, and many more of God’s good gifts to man. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Is the pope more...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (September 2015)
public NUISANCES by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Paul Ryan’s Mysterious Way WASHINGTON There is a mystery about Congressman Paul Ryan’s new and very good book, The Way Forward: Renewing the American...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (April 2014)
The Continuing Crisis by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. February is no more. It ended promptly on February 28 as expected, while thoughtful Americans were still pondering President Barack H. Obama's...
Paid articleObama's Shop of Horrors (March 2014)
Obama's Shop of Horrors by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. OH LUCKY, LUCKY YOU! You thought when you subscribed to The American Spectator or picked it up defiantly on the newsstand that you were getting...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (March 2014)
The Continuing Crisis by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. January departs stage left, but not before the hearties of scenic El Puig, Spain, on January 26 held their annual Dead Rat Throw, heaving the...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (January 2014)
Public Nuisances By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Liars' Club WASHINGTON It is now apparent that our President has lied to us. He lied when he crooned soothingly about improving the healthcare of...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (January 2014)
The Continuing Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. November slides into December, and throughout the land the cognoscenti are asking themselves how President Barack Obama will dispose of the nearly...
Paid articleBright Young Things (December 2013)
Bright Young Things by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Adapted from RET's remarks at TAS's annual Robert L. Bartley dinner on October 23 in Washington, D.C. Twenty thirteen was a distressing year. The...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (December 2013)
the CONTINUING CRISIS byR. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. October disappeared into the mists of history, but we thought we could not close this department until the end of the first week in November. There...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (November 2013)
The Continuing Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. September transforms itself into October and hesto presto the federal government closed down, or rather parts of the federal government closed down:...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (October 2013)
The Continuing Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. August is no more, and apparently so is the medal held by our risible 2009 Nobel laureate. President Barack H. Obama, the winner of that year's...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (July 2013)
Public Nuisances By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. My Rahm Reunion WASHINGTON My Rahm Reunion WASHINGTON How odd! There I was Saturday evening in the Windy City at a fundraising event for the...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (July 2013)
The Continuing Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. May gave way to June, though for some shivering Americanos it felt more like November. Global Warmists were driven into hiding in the...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (June 2013)
Public Nuisances By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Such a Dynamic Duo WASHINGTON IT HAS HAPPENED AGAIN! Our gaffe-prone president has filed another blunder on his presidential record. At the dedication...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (June 2013)
The Continuing Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. April is no more and on comes May with good news for Our President. Just as sequestration began to bite, Holy Islam's bar-bigerous inmates,...
Paid articlePalin's Rack (May 2013)
Sarah Palin’s Rack The former governor has racked up an impressive record electing conservatives by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. All over america, men of a certain age have been playing a YouTube clip...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (May 2013)
PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. The National Rifle Association’s Deterrent to Gun Violence WASHINGTON Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City ought to know by now that gun owners...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (May 2013)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. March came in like a lamb and went out like a lamb. That was the good news of Global Warming! Also the most feeble of all modern economic recoveries...
Paid articleCalvin Cooldige (April 2013)
Calvin Coolidge: His Times Are Our Times by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Progressives of large intellect, such as Woodrow Wilson, and of more modest equipage, like Barack Obama, endeavor to Gigantic...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (April 2013)
Public Nuisances by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. The Lie Gets Worse WASHINGTON I Do Not Know About You, but to me this sequestration imbroglio is getting interesting. Previously I wrote of my surprise...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (April 2013)
The Continuing Crisis by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. February approached extinction, and the country approached “sequestration” just as the courts closed down Ray’s Hell-Burger restaurant, a...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (March 2013)
PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Letter From the Ancient Mayans Santo Tomas De Castilla, Guatemala Wherever is that, you ask? Generally this column comes to you from Washington, D.C....
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (March 2013)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. January goes poof, poof, and leaves 2012 even further behind. Our Third World president, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, took his second oath of office...
Paid articleOur Forty-Five Years (February 2013)
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Our Forty-Five Years Brushing aside the cobwebs that have accumulated in my mind while editing this magazine for 45 years, I perceive six phases...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (February 2013)
PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. What Crime Has Harry Reid Committed? WASHINGTON I have one question about the way Majority Leader Harry Reid has been conducting the Senate. Has...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (February 2013)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. December goes poof taking the entire year of 2012 with it. Good riddance! Now our gaunt, humorless, Teleprompterreading president threatens to...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (December 2012)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. October closed, but we thought we ought to hold this department open until November 6, Election Day, to tell you the good news: President Barack Obama...
Paid articleThe Election...The Election of 2014/Sex and the Generals (December 2012)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Election...The Election of 2014 WASHINGTON Jimmy carter is redeemed! The grinning dunce of yesteryear, who grew into the anile doddering figure of...
Paid articleClose Down those Embassies/Invasion of the Body Snatchers (November 2012)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Close Down Those Embassies WASHINGTON ALLOW ME TO OFFER A SUGGESTION as to how our government might avoid the slaughter of our personnel in diplomatic...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (November 2012)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. September made way for October, but not before it gave us its very own September Surprise! Sure, President Barack H. Obama promised in 2009 that...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (October 2012)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. August wobbles off stage and on comes September, leaving Tampa, Florida, empty and forlorn. The Republicans met there for their national convention,...
Paid articleCulture Trumps Politics (September 2012)
SPECIAL EDITORIAL R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Culture Trumps Politics On November 6, conservatives are going to win big in the elections, but not in the war for our political culture. Why? Culture...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (September 2012)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. As July slipped away, the 2012 Olympic Games began in London with a four-hour opening ceremony that included the Queen wearing a very tasteful hat and...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (July 2012)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. May was put to death by the Dow Jones industrial average, which sank into the red for the year after the third straight monthly jobs report of poor...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (June 2012)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. April dovetailed nicely into May, and I waited patiently for May 8 to come around, and with it the publication of my new book, The Death of Liberalism....
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (May 2012)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Ryan Budget Is for Everyone WASHINGTON As america rings up another $3 trillion plus budget—almost a historic peacetime 25 percent of Gross National...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (May 2012)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. March came in like the proverbial lamb and vamoosed like a lion, gnawing on our Nobel Laureate's remaining policies before he is defenestrated in...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (April 2012)
Public Nuisances R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Boone-Doggle? WASHINGTON The other day the estimable Wall Street Journal editorial board took issue with the equally estimable Boone Pickens, the...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (April 2012)
The Continuing Crisis R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. February passed and not a day too soon, though it being leap year February did include the customary 29th day. All hell broke out in Afghanistan...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES (March 2012)
Public Nuisances R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Our Bill Clinton WASHINGTON How long have i been saying it? At least for 15 years, but in private I have been aware of it longer. Newt Gingrich is...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (March 2012)
The Continuing Crisis R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. January vanished after consuming the usual 31 days, but not before President Barack Hussein Obama delivered his third State of the Union message to...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (February 2012)
PUBLIC NUISANCES Useless Wonks Washington Do you recall in reading President Harry S. Truman’s very good memoir, Years of Trial and Hope: 1946–1952, his scholarly dissection of the Federal...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (February 2012)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Christmas was celebrated around the country with the usual demonstrations of secular piety against crèches, Menorahs, and even Santa Claus. The...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES (December 2011)
P u b l i c N u i s a n c e s R . E m m e t t T y r r e l l , J r . Scandal in the White House in Times Past Washington A presidential election looms on the horizon, and already the...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (December 2011)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. October has become a ghost, as is always the case on Halloween, and with October’s passing Mr. Herman Cain resided atop most Republican...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (November 2011)
Public Nuisances R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Twenty Percent, Si. Twenty-five Percent, No. WASHINGTON It is clear from the way President Barack Obama has been talking about the federal budget...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (November 2011)
The Continuing Crisis R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. September and apparently the gloom continues over at the White House. Mrs. Michelle Obama was seen shopping at Target. The presi-dent's popularity is...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (October 2011)
The Continuing Crisis R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The world's most wanted man and the world's most unwanted man were scurrying for cover in August. The world's most wanted man, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,...
Paid articleThe Long War and the Budget/Ryan Withdraws (October 2011)
Public Nuisances R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Long War and he Budget WASHINGTON e are engaged in a long war-actually two long wars. The first and most commonly accepted of our wars is the long...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances: London Honors Reagan / Adolf And Anders (September 2011)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. London Honors Reagan LONDON The other morning I wandered down to Grosve-nor Square to see the July 4 unveiling of a statue of President Ronald Reagan,...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (September 2011)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. J. Gordon Coogler Award Rescinded, Shawcross Forgiven Readers of this magazine have noticed for months that something has been missing. They are...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances: Newt and Paul Ryan/An Imposter's Complaint (July 2011)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Newt and Paul Ryan WASHINGTON How did so flawed a man as Newt Gingrich get to the top of his party in the 1990s? For that matter, how did so flawed a...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (July 2011)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. May is history and with it goes Memorial Day 2011, but not before President Barack Obama golfed for the 70th time in his 28-month-long presidency....
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (June 2011)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Liberalism's Death Croak WASHINGTON WHILE INSPECTING THE BODY POLITIC, One enCOUnters one clear sign that Liberalism is dead. It is the condition of our...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (June 2011)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. April passes, but stop the presses! The very next day, on May 1, Mr. Osama bin Laden was shot in the head at a rather posh hideaway in glitzy...
Paid articleObama's Crazy War /Barbour Out On The Hustings (May 2011)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Obama's Crazy War WASHINGTON Well, it is official. The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has asked the Nobel Prize Committee to take back President...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (May 2011)
the continuing crisis R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb, but President Barack Obama entered the month and exited like a lamb. The strongest earthquake...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (March 2011)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. More Evidence Liberalism Is Dead WASHINGTON the evidence mounts that Liberalism is dead. The Liberal wizards, working their wonders at the New York Times...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (March 2011)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. January, a new month of a new year, is now history, and with Tea Partiers fortifying their numbers a Republican majority took over the U.S. House of...
Paid articleLiberalism Is Dead (February 2011)
Liberalism Is Dead An intellectual autopsy of the movement. By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. In the tumultuous history of postwar American Liberalism, there has been a slow but steady decline of which...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (February 2011)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. What Next for Liberals? Friendly Fascism WASHINGTON the great denial continues. The Liberals continue to labor under the assumption that nothing very bad...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (February 2011)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. December is dead and headed for history's graveyard, but December is not the only casualty of 2010. There is also Liberalism. For years it was in the...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: The Delusionals / The Coming Struggle (December 2010)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Delusionals WASHINGTON Liberals are having a difficult time explaining what happened to them Election Day. Actually, it appears that many of them do...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (December 2010)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. October became a ghost, but AmSpec did not close until we could report on the first week in November and the delightful midterm elections that saw...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: I Like Tony Blair / Boehner Blew It (November 2010)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I Like Tony Blair WASHINGTON I like tony blair. The left is always lecturing us conservatives on moderation. It would do us good, they say. If only we...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (November 2010)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. September evolved into October and Mr. Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, left the sinking ship in Washington. He is going to Chicago to...
Paid articleWHY NOT THE WORST? (October 2010)
Why not the Worst? Obama has surpassed Carter By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. IT IS BECOMING APPARENT FOR ALL TO SEE that a man who made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES (July 2010)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Revolt of the Masses WASHINGTON Owing to the promotion tour for my new book, After the Hangover: The Conservatives' Road to Recovery, I have been meeting...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (July 2010)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. May wobbled into the history books as political observers began to speculate on when retiring President Barack H. Obama will begin collecting funds for...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES (June 2010)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. There He Gropes Again WASHINGTON Not so long ago there arose on the American political scene something called the Angry Left. It was an indignant group of...
Paid articleBEN STEIN: Comeback Conservatism After the Hangover: The Conservatives' Road to Recovery (May 2010)
BOOKS IN REVIEW Comeback Conservatism 1.Bob Tyrrell is an American icon. Ace swimmer at Indiana University, which is to swimming what Athens was to the Olympics. Founder, lo, these 40...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (May 2010)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R.Emmette Tyrrell, Jr. March witnessed the realization of one of the Liberals' oldest and most cherished goals, the national takeover of American health care. If you...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: Hamid Karzai (D-Chicago)/The Male of the Species (American) (April 2010)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Hamid Karzai (D-Chicago) WASHINGTON am beginning to think of President Hamid Karzai as Hamid Karzai (D-Afghanistan). The way he inveighs against...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (April 2010)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. February was Winter Olympics month. It concluded with Canada winning the most gold medals while the United States accounted for the largest...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES (March 2010)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The lost liberals WASHINGTON With scott brown’s election to the senatorial seat held by Edward Kennedy for 47 years, a few things are suddenly...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (March 2010)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. January brought gratifying news to Hindu skiers living in the economically vibrant Indian subcontinent and for that matter to the elusive...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES (February 2010)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. war Is Hell—Not Litigation WASHINGTON The editor of the venerable conservative weekly Human Events is causing an admirable ruckus. Jed...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (February 2010)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. December entered the history books and took all of 2009, much to the relief of a grateful nation. What an Annus Horribilus 2009 turned out to...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES (December 2009)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Obama, obviously WASHINGTON What strikes me about politics over the last couple of years is how obvious it all has been. In 2008, as the junior...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (December 2009)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. October passes and the presidency of the Prophet Obama continues on its whirly-whirly course. The Telegraph of London reported that the...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES (November 2009)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Freedom from Foreign Oil WASHINGTON Boone Pickens likes to call it a “game changer,” and the game he has in mind is a big one, the game for our...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (November 2009)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. september began on a very depressing note for liberals throughout the United States. September 1 was the third day after the internment of Sen....
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: Robert Novak, RIP / Obama's Carousel of Incompetence (October 2009)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Robert Novak, RIP WASHINGTON It took cancer over a year to kill Bob Novak, and actually this was the fifth cancer that tried to kill him. Let...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (October 2009)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. August passes, but not before our Nation’s liberals gave themselves over to another of their pagan rituals. Senator Edward (Teddy) Kennedy assumed...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: Saving Liberty / Consequences of the Liberal's Death Wish (September 2009)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Saving liberty WASHINGTON A few months back, at the dawn of the Obama administration, I was at dinner with a very bright woman of middle years...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (September 2009)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. July has been put in a jar and placed on a shelf, the same fate that might befall the Obama administration presently. The Prophet, who began his...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: The ACLU Talks Too Much/Chimp Change (July 2009)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The ACLU Talks Too Much WASHINGTON It was my old friend and mentor, Luigi Barzini, who asseverated: "Americans talk too much." He was sitting in the...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (July 2009)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. And so ends the month of May, the fourth full month of the Obama Dizziness. In a Memorial Day weekend interview on C-SPAN, the 44th...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: Mencken and Me/Now That We've Won (June 2009)
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Mencken and Me WASHINGTON Can you believe it? In the public prints, I have been called a "pipsqueak," and a "self-important pipsqueak" at that....
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (June 2009)
THE CONTINOUS CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. As April bid adieu, and our 44th president continued to swank across the country and around the globe, it began to appear that he is not so much...
Paid articlePUBLICS NUISANCES (May 2009)
Missing Bill WASHINGTON OUR NATION'S CAPITAL IS filling with nouveau New Dealers, social engineers, men and women with a glint in the eye. All are anticipating the orgies. There is a stimulus...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (April 2009)
February was a very cold month. By the end of it Venezuela's president Mr. Hugo Chavez had won an anti-term limits referendum, which he claimed as a victory "for socialism and revolution."...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: J. Gordon Coogler Award for 2008 (March 2009)
TTS THE SEASON WHEN PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS give their annual awards, and with no further ceremony allow us to announce that the J. Gordon Coogler Committee has conferred its Worst Book of...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (March 2009)
January witnessed the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States, and the first of AfricanAmerican origins, though Miss Toni Morrison claimed President Bill Clinton was America’s...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: Back to the Wilderness (February 2009)
On December 3, 2008, The American Spectator held its 2008 Robert L. Bartley Annual Dinner, a gala banquet held for Washington Club members who have supported the magazine over the years....
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (February 2009)
December, viewed from beginning to end and with the advantage of hindsight, demonstrates incontrovertibly that President-elect Barack H. Obama is indeed a hind. On the other hand, by the end...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES : Morning in America / The Clown of Campaign'08 (January 2009)
PublIc nuISanceS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. W morning in america WASHINGTON hat a wonderful morn! Campaign ’08 is a corpse. Step gently around it. Offer a gentle wave of the hand...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUINg CRISIS (January 2009)
THe conTInuIng crISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. october gave way to novemberand the presiden­tial polls were right! So was Mr. John Radima, the West Kenyan witchdoctor who on November 1...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (November 2008)
THe coNTINuING crIsIs R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. september proved to be a month of frightful economic turbulence, rudely distracting the electorate from the delightful amusement provided by...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: A Surge of Confidence/ The Mainstream Moron Media (October 2008)
PublIC NuISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Have a career and a family. Domestic chores A Surge of Confidence were to be shared with one’s husband. Governor WASHINGTON Palin has a...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis (September 2008)
THe conTInuInG cRIsIs R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. July scampers off. August arrives. The Prophet Obama is everywhere. In the American outback he intones: “So what they’re going to try to do...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (July 2008)
R . E m m e t t T y r r e l l , J r . t H e c o n t I n u I n g c R I s I s History interred the month of May, and May has interred Senator Barack H. Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: The Tragedy of Campaign '08/Ruinous in Retirement (June 2008)
R . E m m e t t T y r r e l l , J r . P u B L I c n u I s a n c e s House of Representatives have not been able to keep the false issue of race out of this presidential nominating process....
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS (February 2008)
R . E m m e t t T y r r e l l , J r . T H e c o n T I n U I n G c R I s I s december gave way to January and 2008’s first presidential contests. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s poll numbers...
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was over and done with as soon as she got the money, at least as far as she was concerned.” But not as far as the French were concerned. While she was in Paris buying new stuff and trysting...
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9 2 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 Their Seven Deadly Sins WASHINGTON N OCTOBER IT WAS REPORTED in the authoritative Capitol Hill newspaper, The Hill, that Don Van Natta...
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October is gone but Bruno is back! Bruno, the bulky, tough-talking, longtime wife of Boy Clinton, emerged from beneath her halo late in the month after rivals for the Democratic presidential...
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7 8 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 7 Designer Slits WASHINGTON OR MONTHS NOW, stuffy old London has been all jittersaboutanewcrazeinwoman'sfashion,the niqab....
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September came to a halt on the 30th of the month, which was not unusual, but in the month's final days there accumulated evidence that the months ahead may be stupendously unusual. It appears...
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7 0 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 John McCain Battles On WASHINGTON READ FOUR NEWSPAPERS A DAY, occasionally more. I watch television news and listen to radio...
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August passed, but the Clintons' Chop Suey Connection returned! It was first identified in these pages back in 1995, when Mr. James Ring Adams apprehended Indonesian bankers of Chinese...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmet t T yrr ell, J r . Democratic Death Wish WASHINGTON I T LOOKS LIKE A DEATH WISH TO ME. The Democrats’ recent all-night debate to confect legislation for pulling...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmet t T yrr ell, J r . July was a horrifying month. Six and a half years into the Bush Terror and finally the bien pensants of Liberalism beheld on the morning of...
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R . E m m e t t Ty r r e l l , J r . P U B L I C N U I S A N C E S versity. The books have all been insipid and occasionally remarkably bad. His first book, Keeping Faith, won him the J....
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R . E m m e t t Ty r r e l l , J r . T H E C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I S May has taken a powder, and so to has Miss Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war superstar, who resigned from the peace...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmet t T yrr ell, J r . The Hippies’ Last Hurrah WASHINGTON W HAT IS IT IN THE AIR THIS SPRING that is so familiar? There is a war abroad, and the bien pensants are...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmet t T yrr ell, J r . April is in the can, as they say in the broadcast lingua. This year April distinguished itself by featuring not one April Fool’s Day but many,...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Picture This WASHINGTON ELL, IT IS STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has only been in the race for the presidency a short...
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7 4 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R A P R I L 2 0 0 7 Democrats to the Rescue WASHINGTON HEREVER THEY ARE, I HOPE theauthorsofourConstitution are pondering the spectacle now...
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February proved to be one of the most delightful monthsoftheyear.Admittedly,itwasonlythesecond month of the year. Nonetheless it featured nonbinding resolutions from a Democratic Congress...
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January witnessed still more evidence that the sad emotional decline of Mr. Tucker Carlson continues. Precisely when it began is unclear, though he has reportedly been increasingly edgy since the...
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R . E m m e t t Ty r r e l l , J r . Jeane Kirkpatrick, RIP P U B L I C N U I S A N C E S WASHINGTON TWAS AT JEANE KIRKPATRICK’S FUNERAL on December 11 that I finally heard of some good...
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R . E m m e t t Ty r r e l l , J r . T H E C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I S December passed into history sunning itself luxuriantly, at least for the denizens of America’s east coast. In...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett T y r r e | l , . ! r . Rumsfeld Speaks, Democrats Screech WASHINGTON l ~ ECENTLY IN A SPEECH before the national convention of the American Legion, Secretary of...
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THE ISIS CONTINUING CR September vamoosed; and so did the 109th Congress, a Congress that endeared itself to libertarian conservatives by doing very little. It also endeared itself to...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett T y r r e l l , J r . Happy Birthday, Mr. Ex-President WASHINGTON F ORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON has been celebrating his 60th birthday at breakneck speed and...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett T y r r e l l , J r . As August ended, the unshaven president of Iran with the unpronounceable name declared that his country will not accede to the United...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett T y r r e l l , J r . T They Asked for It WASHINGTON O THE GRIZZLED AND DISHEVELED stalwarts of Hezbollah and Hamas, may I say you did it to yourselves. Kapow! As...
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THE ISIS CONTINUING CR R. Emmett T y r r e i l , J r . July has come and gone, and the Israeli Defense Forces spent much of the month rummaging through Lebanon looking for two Israeli soldiers...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES Carter Wins Second Coogler WASHINGTON ~ ACTS ARE FACTS, and such is the degree of politicization in the republic today that when a political organization announces a...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS May slipped into the rearview mirror of history a s Republican politicos grew increasingly alarmed that their "political base" will be in grumpy repose come the November...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES A Cautionary Tale WASHINGTON p ERHAPS THE MOST DUBIOUS clichfi in American history is the one intoned over and again after terrorists killed 3,000 Americans on September...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS April began quietly with former House majority leader Mr. Tom DeLay decorously resigning from Congress, the better to defend himself against charges in court of...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. s TYRRELL, JR. Message to Tony Blair WASHINGTON HE ECONOMIST, BRITAIN'S VENERABLE WEEKLY news magazine, has called on Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign. The magazine's...
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THE CONTIN R. EMMETT UlNG CRISIS TYRRELL, JR. March was an unlucky month for Mr. Charles G. Taylor, Liberia's former president who was captured in Nigeria and taken to Freetown, Sierra...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. E M M E T T TYRRELL, JR. S Secretive and Smug O WE HEAR THAT PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH is taking delight in the spread of the "alternative press" (read conservatives on the...
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_9 l u.sh BY R. EIMMETT TYRRELL, JR. ..... 1 ~ IIANK.~; IN PART 11) TIlE I[TTHI;SIVE HEI'OKTA(;E of modern _9 mass media, thanks in part to America's preeminent role in world politics" the...
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THE CONTaNUING CRIStS R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. February extinguished itself as fear spread among American conservatives. The worry is that somewhere some reckless right-wing cartoonist will...
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THE CONTaNUING CRISIS R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. January passed as the inestimable value of Global Warming radiated through most of the United States, causing unusually clement weather and...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMM ETT TYRRELL, JR. Our mmigratio mbrogHo WASHINGTON I ! A SPEECH TO BORDER AND CUSTOMS agents in RECENT ucson, Arizona, President George W. Bush fastened he nation--s...
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THE CONTiNUiNG CRIS S R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. December exited stage left, trampling 2005 and allowing 2006 to make its debut, much to the relief of another Clintonista, hounded as Clintonistas so...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. EMMETT TYRELL, JR. October was hustled offstage to the relief of patriots and aesthetes everywhere but not before former President Jimmy Carter's new book, Our Endangered...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRELL, JR. Rediscovering Columbus Day WASHINGTON AUTUMN IN NEW YORK"—the words cascaded from Sinatra on my iPod, and I was on my way. It was a...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRELL, JR. Our Jesse WASHINGTON HAVE BEEN READING A COPY OF MEMOIRS written by Jesse Helms, the retired North Carolina senator who braved the liberals' indignation...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. The Posner Report WASHINGTON J UDGE RICHARD A. POSNER WAS IN TOWN for a public appearance the other night, and as he is a leading candidate for the title...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRELL, JR. Coalition of the Evil WASHINGTON S SADDAM HUSSEIN SULKS in his prison cell, members of his Coalition of the Evil on the outside have...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. EMMETT TYRELL, J R. April expired, and so did Pope John Paul II, setting off enormous funereal proceedings that reminded liter-ate Americans...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Wolfe Man WASHINGTON LL, WELL, our debonair President, George W. Bush, has let the cat out of the bag. Caution! For our...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS. Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr With the expiry of February the re-election of President George W. Bush is now four months old, and still the Republicans...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Coogler Laureate 2004 fT IS AWARD TIME IN AMERICA. In all the precincts of intellectual and cultural endeavor the hubbub is beginning. Even in sport the...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. January passed, all 31 days of it, with the casualty list of history's deadliest tsunami climbing steadily towards 200,000 and probably beyond. Yet...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES The Left Always Gets Its Man WASHINGTON USTICE NEVER SLEEPS. Or rather the free-floating moralism that is the left never sleeps. The...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. The Wages of Hatred WASHINGTON OR THE MOST PERCEPTIVE INSIGHT into George W. Bush and the Republicans' robust victory over Senator Jean-Francois Kerry...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. October deliquesces into November and one of the great comic interludes of American politics hath vamoosed. Senator Jean-Francois Kerry has been...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Natural Born Killers WASHINGTON WE ARE SAYING is give peace a chance"—have the charmed crowds that turned out to hear Senator...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. September slipped away and so did Senator Jean-Francois Kerry's lead over our suave president, George W. Bush, Hollywood's most loathed chief executive...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. A Great Gentleman WASHINGTON HE OLD COWBOY IS GONE. The oldest man ever to be elected president lived on to be the oldest ex-president, and we...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Worst Book of the Year WASHINGTON N -,p-- OW THAT THE PULITZER PRIZES have bee' awarded in the arts, journalism, am scholarship, the nation's...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Sixties to the Finish WASHINGTON DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU THOUGHT when you heard that Senator John Francois Kerry was overheard in a scrum of Chicago...
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PUBLIC r UISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. -",,:..membering Doc Counsilman WASHINGTON Y FIRST GAUCHERIE COMMITTED in our nation's capital came in 1970. I was traveling with Vice President Spiro...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Who is Bob Bartley? WASHINGTON MY FRIEND BOB BARTLEY, editor emeritus of the Wall Street Journal, died at 9:35 Wednesday morning, Dec- ember 10. I knew...
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JLETT T vitriol an earlier president endured from tyrants for defending freedom despite heavy costs, I was reminded that the brutes often sound the same. The case they make against American...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. A Dark Cloud Over Dr. Dean WASHINGTON UST AS THINGS WERE GOING swimmingly for the presidential campaign of Dr. Howard Dean, a thick gray storm...
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H istory is the greatest of the humanities. To remind us of its consequentiality it leaves specimens of itself around for later generations to discover to their amazement and edification. The other...
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THE SUMMER WILTS. THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR prepares to begin monthly production in the fall. An elegant new layout is moving from the drawing boards to the printing press. And over at the White...
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I Kidman You Not —WASHINGTON With regard to the last great persecution of the twentieth century, is it possible that we are finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel? The last great...
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THE CONTIN SPRING DISROBES INTO SUMMER, and in the Middle East Muslim pietists continue to turn themselves into firecrackers. In late spring they spread their pyrotechnics from Israel to Riyadh,...
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honor were on admirable display after the liberal snipes set out to defame former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, whom the White House had nominated to chair the investigation of the September...
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M alcolm Muggeridge, one of the literary spirits behind THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR and a major figure in America's libertarian-conservative movement, despite British citizenship, was born one hundred...
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GEORGE W. BUSH'S THIRD SPRING IN OFFICE arrives, and still the most physically fit president in modern times has yet to appear in public jogging in his underpants a la Bill Clinton or passing out...
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'It,/ believe it was my friend Vic Gold, long an AMSPEC writer, who first referred to Washington as "Hollywood East." Other pushier cultural critics claim the insight, but they would, wouldn't they?...
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D o my eyes deceive me? Is that surly fellow staring from the front page of the good old Drudge Report, wearing a Confederate general's uniform, a United States senator? It is indeed, and not...
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THE YEAR 2002 gives way to 2003, and our suave president, George W. Bush, displayed his supply-side bona fides with an economic plan incorporating tax reduction on marginal tax rates and on stock...
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"Dark Sage: Reconsidering H. L. Mencken" BY R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. L. Mencken, along with his urbane colleague George Jean Nathan, has long been an influence on THE AMERICAN...
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"Public Nuisances" BILLY DILI —WASHINGTON could be surprised when our debonair president took a breather from the war on terror to spoof his grandstanding predecessor? He sent Bill Clinton as Washington's...
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"The Continuing Crisis" FROM LATE SPRING THROUGH SUMMER, tensions remained electric in the Middle East, and it cannot have gone over well with the Palestinians when they heard that some very smart Israelis at...
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"Worst Book of the Year" if you listen to the Rumsfeld coterie, and if you consider what we actually did in Afghanistan, you realize that the State Department is just being stately. Where our serious interests are engaged...
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"Public Nuisances" Arab Opposition D-WASHINGTON - id you see the recent television footage of the Arab summit? What went through your mind? All those sheiks and their associates sitting there glowering into the...
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"The Continuing Crisis" SPRING OF 2002 PASSES and the Boy Scouts of America are vindicated! The only logical conclusion deducible from the media's outrage over revelations of pederasty in the pulpit is that the Boy...
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Welcome to the New American Spectator BY R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR. American Spectators,how do you like this typographical finery? History trips onward, and at AmSpec it is time for a new design.Yet we...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Dear Mr. President Welcome to Washington, President Bush. Pardon the condition of the White House. Some fresh paint will work...
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Max Lerner, Lillian Hellman, Paul Robeson, Leonard Bernstein, et al. Their hero was former Vice President Henry Wallace, who, first as editor of the New Republic, then as presidential candidate...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances: Sea of Hate/Boss Hillary (December 2000)
Sea of Hate The recent blood- shed in the West Bank and Gaza reminds me of an adventure of mine some 2 5 years ago. What made that adventure sud- denly vivid in memou's eye was...
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by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Welcome, the Gilder Effect Living with the incoming fire of sumlTlonses and press rebukes, as we have now these last several years, has sharpened my sense...
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~ U B L I C N U I S A N C E ~ by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. No Debating One of the absurd conceits of our political class is its members' belief that they greatly relish nothing more during...
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~U B L I C N U I S A N C E by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Clinton Legacy: A Scherzo As the great political parties of the Republic excite the faithful and tempt the dubious to make world...
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~UBLIC N U I S A N C E ~ by R. Ernmett Tyrrell, Jr. Dnlg Crazy Feds Capitol Hill politics is actually even more interesting than the Sunday morning talk shows would have you...
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by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Maestro Exits the Stage In mid-April one of the most finely tuned musical instruments ever to be heard in America was withdrawn from public view,...
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For Your Information by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Correct me if I am in error, but the present Computer Civilization that awes us all is essentially absorbed with gathering...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Unsolicited Solicitude Perhaps the liberal Democrats are justified in the exalted view they have of their own moral heft. No other...
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Toobin's Vast Con Wins Coogler! by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Worst Book of the Year It is my pleasant duty to confer the J. Gordon Coogler Award for the Worst Book of 1999 to young Jeffrey...
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by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. It Takes an Einstein Time magazine's m e r e t r i c i o u s choice of Albert Einstein as "Person of the Century" is but another reminder of the essential...
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Paid articleSpecial Editorial: The Internet Turns 30 (October 1999)
SPECIAL EDITORIAL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Internet Turns 30 This September marked the thirtieth birthday of the Internet, though historians may quibble. It was in September...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances: Albert Inexcusable/This Is Just a Test (August 1999)
PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Albert Inexcusable London Every spring about this time the popular British historian Paul Johnson and his wife Marigold hold a garden party at his...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances: Peace Now / What's New? (July 1999)
PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Peace Now In April Our Wartime President bombed Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Bulgaria. Earlier he had dropped bombs on Afghanistan and the...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Islands of Anarchy The origins of the Colorado high school massacre go back many decades. They go back to the 1960's when youth culture emerged...
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ILMEMEMBEThriai by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Worst Books of the Year Every year the J. Gordon Coogler Committee refrains from awarding its Worst Book of the Year Award until the Pulitzer...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances: Notice the Stench/Jonestown Revisited (April 1999)
P UNUISANCES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Notice the Stench The recent revelations of Bill Clinton's brutal behavior towards an Arkansas woman, now published in print and broadcast on...
Paid articleEditorials: Vichy Democrats/Pants Off (March 1999)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Vichy Democrats When I recently saw Senator Barbara Boxer (DCalif.) defending President Bill Clinton, I thought back to last September when...
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SPECIA EDITORIAL Who's Responsible? by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The President's Impeachment Who is responsible for the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton—the event, not...
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Resenting Newt Over the last three decades only two other politicians have equaled Newt Gingrich in exciting the cultural elites' sumptuous...
Paid articleEditorials: Prophets With Honor/The Rev. Farrakhan (December 1998)
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Paid articleSpecial Editorial: From Troopergate to Monicagate (November 1998)
SPECIAL EDITORIAL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. From Troopergate to Monicagate The Washington Post, Saturday, September 12, 1998, from its "Editorial Note" introducing the full, unedited...
Paid articleEditorials: Feeling His Heat/Corruption's Flip Side (October 1998)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Feeling His Heat Whew! The heat has gone up in the kitchen, as President Harry Truman was wont to say. The Clintons had been planning to cook...
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Bookists The Modern Library's editorial board has just announced the loo best Englishlanguage novels of the century, as esteemed by its board...
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Party of Corruption A few weeks back the Democrats' foxy rhetoricians put the poor Republicans on the defensive once again. The battleground...
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Worst Book of the Year T his cold slab of a book is a disappointment. Professor Hill, you have let me down! The liberals' dispendious...
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Killer Coffee I wonder what House Speaker Newt Gingrich was doing the other day when the morning headline boomed the Boy President's assault...
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Latest Rubbish Is that the president of the United States making a six-nation tour of Africa? Or is it the president of the student body from a...
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A Menace to Society The Boy President's State of the Union speech, delivered midst the whirl of fresh scandals, was suitably infantile. Again he...
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A Mumbly Creep Bob Dylan came to Washington in early December. He snuffled his way through the Kennedy Center Honors, wiped his nose on his...
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EDITORIAL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Thirty—and Still Counting Thirty volumes of this magazine have fallen into my wake. High seas may rise ahead, but behind me in those...
Paid articleEditorials: Victims All/Hating the Hoosier (November 1997)
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Victims All And so the list of 1996 was an important year, "arguably as the United States. He is not much of a unfortunates important" as the 1860 election of Abra-...
Paid articleEditorials: Seth Lipsky's Power Forward/Not Nice Lice (October 1997)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Seth Lipsky's Power Forward New York Walking the now pacified and clean streets that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has vouchsafed this city, I stop at...
Paid articleEditorials: Feeling the Pressure / My Kind of Capitalist (September 1997)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Feeling the Pressure Could anyone explain to me why I have been receiving so many reports of pressure being placed on persons who have been...
Paid articleEditorials: Everything's Ducky/No Escaping the Sexual Revolution (August 1997)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Everything's Ducky Throughout the history of this great and gaudy Republic second-term presidents have often become what historians call "lame...
Paid articleEditorials: President Peach Bottom / Budget Summit Over Dinner (July 1997)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. President Peach Bottom The famed nineteenth-century American historian John Bach McMaster notes early in his History ofthe People ofthe United...
Paid articleEditorials: You've Gotta Have Gephardt / Twelve-Stepping Over the Line (June 1997)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. You've Gotta Have Gephardt I have suffered an insight! It may dictate a momentous change of heart. Heretofore when I watched such moral colossi as...
Paid articleEditorials: The Worst Book of the Year / The Small Island That We Rescued (May 1997)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Worst Book of the Year It is my privilege every year at this time to serve on the committee that judges America's only literary prize...
Paid articleEditorials: Starr Power /The Dranesville Park Syndrome (April 1997)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Starr Power Amid all the portentous rumbles about how Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr lost credibility in the Pepperdine matter, allow me to...
Paid articleEditorials: Kim Jong Clinton / Hats Off to Jerry (March 1997)
Kim Jong Clinton I do not know about you, but as I listened to Our President intone the familiar inanities of his inaugural speech I thought— rather affectionately— of Mr. Kim Jong II,...
Paid articleEditorials: Banes of Existence / Integrity, Anyone? (February 1997)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Banes of Existence Last December there must have been moments when House Speaker Newt Gingrich wished that he simply did not exist. At some chill...
Paid articleEditorials: The CIA's Lawyerly Balderdash / A Special Relationship (January 1997)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The CIA's Lawyerly Balderdash London Recent leading stories in the British newspapers have concerned a member of the Tory government caught lying to...
Paid articleEditorials: Never Mind / Seduced by Bill (December 1996)
EDITORIALS' by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Never Mind October 30 And so the 1996 presidential blubbering contest is about to shut down. Our celebrity president is far ahead of the Gruff Gentleman Bob...
Paid articleEditorials: Clinton on Cocaine?/Not Even Nixon . . . (November 1996)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Clinton on Cocaine? The only recent precedent avail able to Bill Clin ton for not releasing the details (raw data and all) of...
Paid articleBoy Clinton (September 1996)
BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Boy Clinton" The Book on Bill Boy Clinton: A Political Biography R Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Regnery /356...
Paid articleBoy Clinton in Prague (July 1996)
"Boy Clinton in Prague" Remember that mysterious trip Bill Clinton took behind the Iron Curtain during his Oxford years? An excerpt from RET's new biography introduces the hard-line Communists who hosted Clinton...
Paid articleEditorials: Lady Hills /All in the Family (July 1996)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Lady Hills London Here I am, thousands of miles from home, and that lady will not leave me in peace. The lady I refer to, of course, is the lady who for...
Paid articleEditorials:Doledrums for Clinton / Forget It! (June 1996)
"Editorials:Doledrums for Clinton / Forget It!" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Doledrums for Clinton Washington I think of this city, the capital of a vast country, as a small town. The evidence to support my prejudice piles...
Paid articleEditorials: Dunce Dershowitz / Foreign Policy Flop (May 1996)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Dunce Dershowitz I should like to congratulate a Mr. Phil Boyce, the program director of New York's talk radio station, WABC. The other day he eliminated from...
Paid articleEditorials: No to Drug Legalization / Touched by Fidel / Facts of Primary Life (April 1996)
"Editorials: No to Drug Legalization" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. No to Drug Legalization This is a joyous occasion! William F. Buckley, for a quarter of a century my friend and moral superior, has given me an opportunity to...
Paid articleEditorials: Another Stand-In Performance /Lying Still (March 1996)
"Another Stand-In Performance /Lying Still" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Regarding the State of the Union address, could someone tell me who the stand-in was for Bill Clinton? Whoever he is, is...
Paid articleEditorials: Quick Draw McGraws/Pop Freaks (February 1996)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Quick Draw McGraws Taxpayers of New York, rejoice! The law enforcement agencies of your great state, in league with educators, gamblers, and a couple...
Paid articleThe Case Against Hillary (February 1996)
"The Case Against Hillary" BY JAMES RING ADAMS & R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. WE MAY NOT YET HAVE the smoking gun on Whitewater, but a spate of new documents now gives us a pretty good fix on its...
Paid articleEditorials: Fish Are Jumpin' / Mike Goes Soft (January 1996)
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Fish Are Jumpin' Kitty Hawk, N.C. Who says the oceans are dying? Right here along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, anglers are pulling voluptuous striped...
Paid articleEditorials/See No Evil/Downright Scary (December 1995)
EDITORIALS See No Evil by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. H oward Kurtz, the Washington Post reporter whose beat is media, has come up with a howler to be placed atop another howler and savored. The other...
Paid articleEditorials/A Perfect Gentleman/Slow Burn to China (November 1995)
EDITORIALS A Perfect Gentleman by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. ne thing about retiring Senator 0 Bob Packwood, he put on a good show. And so did former House Speaker Jim Wright and now former...
Paid articleEditorials / The Great Pretender, Green and Bear It (September 1995)
EDITORIALS The Great Pretender by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. New York I have fled our nation's capital for our nation's apple, seeking serenity. Down in Washington the other night, I made a dreadful...
Paid articleEditorials/The Healer as Heel/FDR Cracked Up (June 1995)
EDITORIALS The Healer as Heel by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I can think of no president in our history so cheap and hollow as to exploit the anguish of the Oklahoma City bombing in the way Bill...
Paid articleEditorials/ Chip on My Shoulder/Moving on Mena (May 1995)
EDITORIALS Chip on My Shoulder by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Las Vegas M y travels have taken me through much of the industri- alized world. I have even vis- ited parts of the Third World. For...
Paid articleEditorials / Time Warp I Sleazeballs (April 1995)
EDITORIALS Time Warp by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. M ay I direct your attention to the February 20 issue of Time magazine? Apparently a contingent of Time writers were recently invited to fly down to...
Paid articleEditorials / The Worst Book of the Year / Wave Good-bye (March 1995)
EDITORIALS ....................................................................................... The Worst Book of the Year by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. J t is that felicitous time of year when...
Paid articleEditorials / Post-Liberation / Hubbelled (February 1995)
EDITORIALS Post-Liberation by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A rdent environmentalist that I am, allow me to report that the nation's grim Kultursmog remains devoid of any currents of fresh air...
Paid articleEditorials / Missing the Point / Helmsmen (January 1995)
EDITORIALS Missing the Point by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. y ou will perhaps have noted that at his press conference the day after the most colossal electoral landslide since 1980, Boy Clinton's...
Paid articleEditorials / Off Their Feed/Why Not Spy? (April 1994)
EDITORIALS Off Their Feed by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. C onsider the absurdity of the scene! America's journalists, possibly the most sanctimonious collection of bores since the authors of the...
Paid articleEditorials / Who's Afraid of L.D. Brown?/ Mena Spirited (December 1994)
EDITORIALS Who's Afraid of L.D. Brown? by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. H arper's magazine held a kind of show trial the other day at the National Press Club. The burden of the apparat's labored efforts...
Paid articleEditorials/Ever Jimmy/ Plutonium and the President (November 1994)
EDITORIALS Ever Jimmy by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. id you catch the front-page D interview of former President Jimmy Carter in the New York Times the other day? It was a perfect substitute for a...
Paid articleEditorials / The Company They Keep/Tit for GATT (September 1994)
EDITORIALS The Company They Keep by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. H ow many years has it been since a Republican of high estate publicly denounced an opponent as a "pinko," a "parlour pink," or a...
Paid articleEditorials /Houston Democrats /Turning on the Juice (August 1994)
EDITORIALS Houston Democrats by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. 0 ne of the conveniences that Republicans have in choosing their candidates is the presence in American politics of the Avuncular Democrat....
Paid articleEditorials: Old What's-His-Name/The Meaning of Life (July 1994)
EDITORIALS Old What's-His-Name by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. T his month I vow not to write one word of disparagement against the man whom Paula Corbin Jones has accused of what we moderns call...
Paid articleEditorials / Richard Nixon, R. I. P. / Muddlers Abroad (June 1994)
EDITORIALS Richard Nixon, R.I.P. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A nd so a stroke felled former president Richard Nixon. His obi body had taken a lot of abuse. He had been a fixture in American life...
Paid articleEditorials/Mrs. Jones/Agent Orange (March 1994)
EDITORIALS Mrs. Jones by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. C ould Paula Corbin Jones be this year's Anita Hill? The other day in this famous city, Mrs. Jones and her lawyer, Daniel M. Traylor, publicly...
Paid articleEditorials / The Worst Book of the Year/David and the Goliaths (February 1994)
• EDITORIALS The Worst Book of the Year by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. t is that joyous time of year when I / and my colleagues on the J. Gordon Coogler Committee confer the Coogler laurels upon the...
Paid articleEditorial/Live Fat-Free or Die (January 1994)
EDITORIAL Live Fat-Free or Die by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A ccording to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, written by government researchers, my bartender is a killer....
Paid articleIn Memoriam/Maurice Cranston (January 1994)
IN MEMORIAM Maurice Cranston p rofessor Maurice Cranston, one of the stalwarts of The American Spectator's Editorial Board, collapsed and died of a heart attack in a good cause on November 5. He...
Paid articleEditorials / Senator Deadwood/Mascot Studies (December 1993)
Senator Deadwood by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. S enator Bob Packwood, the Wall Street Journal tells us, leads "a double life." He is one of the most powerful senators in this great city. His influence...
Paid articleEditorials / Father Higgins, RIP / Senator High Horse (November 1993)
EDITORIALS Father Higgins, RIP by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Indianapolis T hey buried coach Bob Knight's favorite cleric out here in the rolling greenery of south central Indiana the other day. Bob...
Paid articleEditorials / Stopping the Violence / At Dawn to Cast His Flies (October 1993)
C onnoisseurs of the national follies await the requisite outcry against the brutal and gratuitous murder of Michael Jordan's father. Then too, we await the outcry against the claim that Deputy...
Paid articleEditorials /Dead Wrong/The Mysterious Death of Vince Foster (September 1993)
E verything Bill Clinton believes about the economy is wrong. He believes that by raising taxes he will cut the deficit. That will lower interest rates. This will spur economic activity. But of...
Paid articleEditorials / Oh, Brother! /Come Fly With Me! (August 1993)
A midst all the public musings over the astonishing disarray of the Clinton presidency, is it not odd that hardly anyone has placed the blame on President Clinton's ideas? Some tell us that the...
Paid articleEditorials / Coat-and-Tie Radicals / Botching Bosnia (July 1993)
/agree with Hillary and Chelsea and Socks and all the other quaintly named boosters of our president. All around the White House the Best and the Brightest of the Republic's last two generations are...
Paid articleEditorials / Public Radio's Anti-Semites / La Boheme (June 1993)
Ghetto uprising against the Nazis, A s we contemplate the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw and the 400,000 Polish Jews who over a two-and-a-half-year period were shipped from Warsaw to hideous...
Paid articleEditorials / The Worst Book of the Year / You Can't Look It Up (May 1993)
A las, the citizenry of this great Republic has arrived at that cloying season when its eminences in the arts and communications display the full hugeness of their self-love. It is "awards time";...
Paid articleEditorials / Clinton's Trickle-Down/Hillary Polluted (April 1993)
T rickle down, trickle down—ha, ha, ha. From (roughly) William Jennings Bryan's 1896 "Cross of Gold" speech to President Bill Clinton's ramblings in his State of the Union address on February 17,...
Paid articleEditorials / Clinton: Week One/Clinton: Week Two (March 1993)
/ wonder if at some dizzying point during President Bill Clinton's unique glorification rites, he saw what I believe I saw. Perhaps it was when he, his wife, and the vice presidential couple...
Paid articleEditorials / The University Left/London Crawling (February 1993)
That President-elect Bill Clinton's second wave of appointments was divvied out to the left is not simply a blunder. It is an indignity. Donna E. "Boom-Boom" (a nickname she does not abhor) Shalala,...
Paid articleEditorials/The Lost Gentleman/Pietistic Gore (December 1992)
EDITORIALS The Lost Gentleman by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. George Bush is, according to those who know him, one of the finest gentlemen to inhabit Washington in many years. Certainly he is one of...
Paid articleEditorials/In Bosnia/Dread October (November 1992)
In Bosnia by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina perhaps it was not such a good idea for me to absent myself from America's current outbreak of political doubletalk and hot air. The...
Paid articleEditorials/Double Trouble/Goodbye, Cruel World (October 1992)
EDITORIALS Double Trouble by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. T he other day in Knoxville, Tennessee, Vice President Dan Quayle said, "Let's look at the record. . . . Bill Clinton said that he is for...
Paid articleEditorial / Dramatic Democrats (September 1992)
EDITORIAL Dramatic Democrats by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. New York T he Democrats have returned from the Big Apple! But they are scarcely the boisterous, ebullient bunch from days gone by. Fruit...
Paid articleEditorials/Just Whistle/The Real Enemy (August 1992)
EDITORIALS Just Whistle by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. On the day that the morning news shows broadcast word of H. Ross Perot's historic leap to the top of the presidential polls, there was an...
Paid articleEditoriallUnheavenly Cities (July 1992)
EDITORIAL Unheavenly Cities by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. T he indignation of our friends the liberal Democrats at White House charges that their policies were responsible for the Los Angeles rampage...
Paid articleThe Conservative Crack-Up (June 1992)
BOOK REVIEWS / first encountered the writing of R. Emmett (Bob) Tyrrell, Jr. in 1973 during a visit to the Ripon Society offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Apparently flung aside with some force...
Paid articleEditorials/The Nixon Doctrine/Video Proliferation (May 1992)
EDITORIALS The Nixon Doctrine by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. History moves abruptly, particular- ly in Russia. In February of 1917 the Czar's regime, which annually executed a dozen or so political...
Paid articleEditorials/The Worst Book of the Year/Fantasists (April 1992)
EDITORIALS The Worst Book of the Year by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Millions of Americans are well aware of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, and some are even cognizant of less popular literary...
Paid articleThe Conservative Crack-Up (April 1992)
The Conservative Crack-Up Excerpts. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. ^ Origins I date the Conservative Crack-Up as beginning on the afternoon of July 1, 1987, when President Ronald Reagan stepped to...
Paid articleSpecial Editorial/Dan Quayle: Saving George Bush from Himself (March 1992)
Dan Quayle: Saving George Bush From Himself by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. How odd it is that our President sought digitalis for American trade by traveling halfway around the world to Japan. All he...
Paid articleEditorials/Stone Dead/The Great Bungler (February 1992)
EDITORIALS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Stone Dead It is only right that someone step forward to serve the needs of this country's ignoramuses. We have built vast libraries and schools for those who...
Paid articleEditorials/The Brady Bunch/ Hang 'em High (January 1992)
It is the fear of many of President Bush's supporters that he will not be able to renew his call for tax cuts until Secretary of the Treasury Brady and budget director Darman go. Without tax cuts it...
Paid articleEditorials/Hearing Things/Strange Devices (December 1991)
STRANGE DEVICES What passes for the Current Wisdom in the Democratic Party is now undergoing a subtle and unforeseen metamorphosis. Ever since the reign of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democratic...
Paid articleEditorials/How High the Bounce?/The Noble Racist (August 1991)
EDITORIALS HOW HIGH THE BOUNCE? THE NOBLE RACIST Apropos of God knows what, I just heard Mr. Rod MacLeish, a commentator on a Christian Science Monitor radio news program, announce that we are in...
Paid articleEditorials/Operation Hamill-Lewis/Kitty Times (June 1991)
EDITORIALS OPERATION HAMILL-LEWIS H ow is it that those commentators and politicians who so recently opposed the use of American force against Saddam Hussein now insist on its use to protect...
Paid articleEditorial/PC People (May 1991)
EDITORIAL PC PEOPLE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. O ur universities are in crisis. Something must be done! And at The American Spectator we have decided that something will be done. This is not to...
Paid articleEditorials/Our Dynamic Duo/The Malcontents (April 1991)
8 THE MALCONTENTS January 30, 1991 It is the onset of night, and having ists, though they would make lousy heard the evening news's latest re- 1930s Republicans. Others yelled at me ports of...
Paid articleEditorials/The Worst Book of the Year/Fathead Bishops (March 1991)
FATHEAD BISHOPS I f, like me, you have had diffi- cultyy finding the actual whereabouts of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's nationally televised talk show, help is on the way. There is calamity abroad in...
Paid articleEditorials/A Memo to George Bush (February 1991)
EDITORIALS A MEMO TO GEORGE BUSH To: President Bush From: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Re: The State of the Union 1991 I t has been my honor to be your friend. Early in the presidential sweepstakes I...
Paid articleEditorials/You Must Remember Hiss/Democrats to the Rescue (January 1991)
DEMOCRATS TO THE RESCUE It appears that my campaign predic- tion of last month was fla fla. I pronounced that President Bush was "headed for a terrible mid-term defeat." Ever the good sport, he had...
Paid articleEditorials/The Unfinished Congress/Jesse Who? (November 1990)
EDITORIALS THE UNFINISHED CONGRESS I" he House of Representatives and 1 the Senate are back in session after their month-long holiday. This unfortunate occurrence could not be prevented, as it is...
Paid articleEditorials/The Bush Resolve/Nature Fakers (October 1990)
EDITORIALS THE BUSH RESOLVE George Bush has just completed an V act of presidential leadership surpassing any similar effort by an American President in recent times—though only with modern...
Paid articleEditorials / Why New York? / Congress on Ice (July 1990)
CONGRESS ON ICE Washington T all, tanned, and presidential, of it, such as the Americans with Dis- I George Herbert Walker Bush, abilities Act, the Clean Air Bill, and the seated at lunch in the...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse / Zealots Against Science (July 1990)
THE NATION'S PULSE ZEALOTS AGAINST SCIENCE T have just read a very illuminating I manuscript that you, dear reader, may never be able to read. It deals coolly, analytically, and at times quite...
Paid articleEditorials / An Anti-American Poseur / Twisted and Hallucinatory (June 1990)
TWISTED AND HALLUCINATORY W hat follows is what the venerable Liberal columnist Anthony Lewis wrote the other day. For that matter, it is also what he was writing several weeks ago, several months...
Paid articleEditorials/It's Not Over/More Right Stuff (May 1990)
EDITORIALS IT'S NOT OVER by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. From reading the American press one gets the idea that the Cold War is over, and that in the unusually mild early months of 1990 all goes...
Paid articleEditorials/Junk Bonds Into Scrap/Rooney Tunes (April 1990)
EDITORIALS JUNK BONDS INTO SCRAP Washington, D.C. T he current concerto grosso of sad 1 news being played by the pundits of this unhappy town is that nowadays all the history is being made...
Paid articleEditorials/The Left Unscathed/Jesse Steals the Show (March 1990)
EDITORIALS JESSE STEALS THE SHOW W hich aspiring Democratic presidential candidate compares the American military's action in Panama with the massacre of defenseless protesters in Tiananmen Square...
Paid articleEditorials/Moral Hams and Brutes/Our National Anthem (February 1990)
EDITORIALS MORAL HAMS AND BRUTES T he Communist regimes of Eastern 1. Europe have collapsed so fast that thousands of Eastern bloc intelligence agents and military advisers are now stranded...
Paid articleEditorials/Let Us Give Thanks/Hill-Jack Bugaboos (January 1990)
EDITORIALS LET US GIVE THANKS I n my library I have almost an entire 1 wall of books absorbed with one aspect or another of that parlous feud that has divided the West and the Soviet bloc for four...
Paid articleEditorials/Life Is Imitation/Kinsley Does It Again (December 1989)
EDITORIALS KINSLEY DOES IT AGAIN A las, Michael Kinsley has stepped taste or no principle. There was the row into another of those ignomin- at Harper's during which he apologized ious...
Paid articleEditorials/Beauty and the Beasts/Gorby of Mayberry (October 1989)
GORBY OF MAYBERRY requently an international news Perhaps it is the sunny way in which I: story is received differently in dif- the American media cover the Soviet ferent parts of the world. Here...
Paid articleEditorials/The Real Environmentalist/Bush and the Conservatives (September 1989)
EDITORIALS THE REAL ENVIRONMENTALIST by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. ne of the curiosities of the American environmental movement is that so few environmentalists look particularly suited for the...
Paid articleEditorials/The Death of Radicalism/Mayor Jesse (July 1989)
EDITORIALS THE DEATH OF RADICALISM by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. olossal ironies are upon us. On the faculties of American universities and in the newsrooms of American media, middle-aged nostalgiacs...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances / Chicken Koop (June 1989)
PUBLIC NUISANCES CHICKEN KOOP by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Any fair-minded deliberations on the life and labors of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, whose attempt to introduce into American fashion...
Paid articleEditorials/Worst Books of the Year/Ted and I Agree (May 1989)
EDITORIALS WORST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. y fellow Americans, it is that time of year for The American Spectator to confer its J. Gordon Coogler Award upon the past...
Paid articleEditorials/Fraudulence I/Fraudulence II (April 1989)
EDITORIALS FRAUDULENCE I Washington Apparently I have again been defrauded by the public prints. Innocent that I am, I read headlines and take them to heart. Having read headlines attributing...
Paid articleEditorials/Stupefying Imbeciles/NBC's "Yesterday" Show (March 1989)
NBC'S "YESTERDAY" SHOW As an assiduous viewer of the Republic's three major morning talk shows I should like to tender a public-spirited suggestion to the producers and directors of NBC's "Today"...
Paid articleEditorials/Lifers on Capitol Hill/Save the Chickens (February 1989)
EDITORIALS LIFERS ON CAPITOL HILL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. T he facts cannot be denied. Our 1 Members of Congress are for the most part extremely hard working and very pretty. This latter point...
Paid articleEditorials/That Scoundrel Bush/Bring Back Tip (December 1988)
THAT SCOUNDREL BUSH by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. October 19, 1988 This presidential election demon- are only a few left in Moscow. As the veals that for them there are only two education adviser in...
Paid articleEditorials/Accolades for The Duke/Mexico's New Seriousness (November 1988)
EDITORIALS ACCOLADES FOR THE DUKE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. D efore all interest in this year's .1.3 presidential election fades behind the Republic's oncoming concern about the pennant races, the...
Paid articleEditorials/The Art of Verbal Communication/Coach of a Lifetime (October 1988)
EDITORIALS THE ART OF VERBAL COMMUNICATION A s the shadows of summer lengthen, does Vice President George Bush ever wonder why Americans seem so nonchalant about his patriotic offer of four more...
Paid articleEditorials/Veep Stakes/John Lehman's Enemies (September 1988)
EDITORIALS VEEP STAKES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. W hat decision could more hilariously demonstrate the hypothesis that in recent years American political leadership has suffered a massive loss of...
Paid articleEditorials/Jesse's Place/Legal Brawley (August 1988)
EDITORIALS JESSE'S PLACE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. even million Democrats voted for 1.3 Jesse Jackson to be the presidential nominee of his party. He will arrive at the Democratic national...
Paid articleEditorials/Moscow and Bliss/A Question of Honor (July 1988)
EDITORIALS MOSCOW AND BLISS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. General Secretary Mikhail Gorba- Marxist blight on the Soviet mind it is to proceed on the question of the na- managers in the boondocks, are...
Paid articleEditorials/Our Real Economy and Theirs/Seducing the Hill (June 1988)
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Paid articleEditorials/Bush Resurrected/A Conference for Chaos (May 1988)
EDITORIALS BUSH RESURRECTED by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. W here were you when first notified of the political death of George Herbert Walker Bush? Well, those of us who harbor an intense interest in...
Paid articleEditorials/Swaggart's Sweat/Carter and Iran-Contra (April 1988)
EDITORIALS SWAGGART'S SWEAT T hose of us who have turned our 1 televisions to the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart and admired his prodigious capacity to sweat have further grounds for admiration, for we have...
Paid articleEditorials / The Worst Books of the Year / Idiots on a Seesaw (March 1988)
IDIOTS ON A SEESAW W atching the political contest between Republicans and Democrats over whether to continue aid to the anti-Communists in Nicaragua known as the contras is like watching grownups...
Paid articleEditorials / With Ron after Gorbo / A Message form Miranda (February 1988)
A MESSAGE FROM MIRANDA If Congressman Henry Hyde was mad before, imagine his anger now. He was exasperated over Congress's passage of an arrantly unconstitutional legislative sausage that would...
Paid articleEditorials/Bad Characters/Who's to Blame'? (January 1988)
EDITORIALS BAD CHARACTERS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. W hen the pundits and the politicos begin to conjure with what in 1987 they are pleased to call the character issue, tune them out. Once again...
Paid articleEditorials/Cheers!/Woodward Unveiled/A Grand Lady (December 1987)
WOODWARD UNVEILED After sober reflection, I think we can all agree that there is something obsessive about a reporter who would inveigle his way into the hospital room of a terminally ill patient,...
Paid articleEditorials/Bork, Now More Than Ever/Marxist Hashish Handlers (November 1987)
EDITORIALS BORK, NOW MORE THAN EVER Washington Judge Robert H. Bork, President J Reagan's nominee to replace Justice Lewis F Powell, Jr. on the Supreme Court, is going to be making heavy weather...
Paid articleEditorials/Is It Liberal Convergence?/Conservatives, Take Heart (October 1987)
CONSERVATIVES, TAKE HEART New York Fellow conservatives and other adepts of humane and normative behavior, take heart. Pay no heed to those popinjays among the intelligentsia who report with...
Paid articleEditorials/Napoleon and Reagan/Howdy Doody and 0llie (September 1987)
HOWDY DOODY AND OLLIE O n the occasion of Lt. Col. Oliver deception with disclosure and truth." North's first appearance before It explains his charge that members of them, what did the Machiavels...
Paid articleThe Coming Conservative Crack-Up (September 1987)
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., with comments by Tom Bethell, Richard Brookhiser, Victor Gold, Daniel Henninger, Lewis E. Lehrman, Joseph Sobran, and Ernest van den Haag THE COMING CONSERVATIVE...
Paid articleEditorials/The Shadows of War/Testing AIDS Patience (August 1987)
EDITORIALS THE SHADOWS OF WAR H istory's great law of unintended consequences may be at work again in our nation's capital. According to my calculations, the congressional hearings into the...
Paid articleEditorials/William J. Casey, RIP/Maggie Will Win (July 1987)
MAGGIE WILL WIN London rime Minister Thatcher had hardly ended her call for elections than I was on wing to this sceptered isle to collect samplings for my zoological studies of the political...
Paid articleEditorials/The Solitary Hart/Safe Sex in Moscow (June 1987)
EDITORIALS SAFE SEX IN MOSCOW T he moral and intellectual disman- 1 tlement of America, always proctored so zealously by Americans of a progressive cast of mind, has now advanced sufficiently that...
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EDITORIALS VAPORIZERS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. urs is a very curious political culture. The author Garry Wills heaves up a fantasy on the life of Ronald Reagan, Reagan's America. Innocents at...
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EDITORIALS REAGAN IS NOT REAGAN In America to be corrupted by bad impulses is relatively commonplace. To be corrupted by good impulses is apparently presidential. Jimmy Carter was brought low by...
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"Editorials/Reagan Remote/Faith in the System" Historians set out to define the epochs of the past. Successful statesmen define the present. Ronald Reagan has made historic changes in policy and contributed to a vast change in the national...
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Across the Great Republic our noble politicos have now auspicated their off-year elections, and on one matter both sides agree: this election lacks a national theme. In 1982 the Democrats made...
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E D I T O R I A L S DO-NOTHING DEAVER by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Knowledgeable followers of the great game of politics realize that one of the gauges by which a politico is measured is embedded in...
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E D I T O R I A L S RICH KIDS Wherever one looks in this dynamic Republic one sees America's devotion to youth. The staid and austere American of yore has given way to the eternal kid, and...
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EDITORIALS ZOO SEX The present pother over AIDS is comparable to no other problem in American history. It is a health problem as tuberculosis was once a health problem, but now it has been...
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EDITORIALS BUDGETARY CHAOS It was in 1974 that Congress passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, vouchsafing the instrumentalities for finally getting a grip on the budget....
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EDITORIALS GRUMBLES ON THE RIGHT by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The historically inclined will recall that it was at about this time in Ronald Reagan's first term when conservatives began complaining...
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EDITORIALS HOLY SHIITE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (Editor's note: This column was written two weeks before the hijacking of TWA flight 847.) In the course of this column I shall perhaps make...
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EDITORIALS HOLY SHIITE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (Editor's note: This column was written two weeks before the hijacking of TWA flight 847.) In the course of this column I shall perhaps make...
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EDITORIALS THE WEIRD WAR April marked the tenth anniversary of South Vietnam's liberation or fall. It depends on one's point of view. As all the world knows, the Vietnam war was controversial and,...
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EDITORIALS NICE GUYS FINISH LAST by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Americans are an amiable and sanguine people. In a word, they are nice. They are neither as rapacious as they are portrayed in cinema and...
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EDITORIALS THE POPE'S GOD This white-haired polyglot Pope who travels the world is, we are told, a "peasant intellectual Pope." That is the judgment of Mr. William McCready, the...
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EDITORIALS LIBERAL DENIAL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Considering the baleful outcome of this fall's election for my Liberal friends, and the outcome of every presidential election since 1968, save...
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EDITORIALS KIRKPATRICK Some Americanos have a curious avidity for making matters more difficult than they are. Perhaps they fear idleness. Possibly they forgot to read the instructions. Quite...
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Reagan II: Appraisal & Prognosis INTRODUCTION A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT Dear Mr. President, Where's the Rest of Me? is an intriguing title for an autobiography, but it will make an even better...
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YOUTH IN REBELLION These are mournful days in the faculty clubs of America. The profs, so many of whom have made politics their religion and gauchisme its inspiration, are finding themselves...
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E D I T O R I A L S WINDY MORALIZERS L a s t month, when the Democrats' great hope addressed the issue of religion in politics and bragged that the United States is "the most religious...
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E D I T O R I A L S LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART Has it been noted and analyzed by the learned anthropologists of the Republic that modern feminists do not fall in love? Or if they do, they are...
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VOL. 17, NO. 10 / OCTOBER 1984 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR - / ) - ~ R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. THE LIBERAL CRACK-UP Having spent 15 years studyi0g Homo liberalis, Dr. Tyrrell emerges from his lab t o...
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E D I T O R I A L S THE FORMIDABLE MISS TUTWILER L i k e millions of other Americans I do not know Margaret Tutwiler, but from last month's news reports I get the impression that she is a...
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a rule Orientals are not "low-income" people. Moreover in political terms what do the growing number of professionals who are Hispanic, black, or Oriental have in common with lowincome...
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FRITZ, MY FRITZ I t is with unexpected melancholy that I have witnessed Walter Mondale's democratic ordeal. I have attempted to stifle it, but the gloom is relentless. After all, Mondale is...
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E D I T O R I A L S MORE BLACK CATS Another black cat news story has been heaved across the Reagan Administration's path to glory. I speak, of course, of the diabolical "blacklist" that was...
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E D I T O R I A L S WORST BOOKS OF THE YEAR b y R. Emmett T y r r e l l , J r . As years go, 1983 is now a ghost, which means that it is again my privilege to announce the J. Gordon Coogler...
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H a s n ' t the Rev. Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign gotten off to a grand and glorious start? Certainly Jimmy Carter's 1976 bid did not begin as auspiciously, and look where Jimmy was...
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by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The next time the British Broadcasting Corporation calls me in search of sweet music from a Yank critical of Irish-American support of the IRA or of some IRA...
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EDITORIALS TIP, A RAPPROCHEMENT by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Falstaff I was with you. Admittedly I have at times been critical of, possibly even impolite to, that large rumpled basso continuo of...
Paid articleEditorials/Masked Politics/McGoo II (November 1983)
EDITORIALS MASKED POLITICS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A political philosophy has sunk to a very low estate when its most ardent practitioners do not dare to admit that politics is their game and...
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EDITORIALS THE SPOTSWOODIAN PRONUNCIAMENTO by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The judiciary's conceptions of free speech continue to fluctuate much as the moods of the late Mussolini continued to fluctuate...
Paid articleEditorials / Black Cats / Mitred Moonshine (September 1983)
EDIT0RIALS BLACK CATS Last month that black cat the Washington press corps had perceived arched atop a'pile of Jimmy Carter's briefing papers slipped back toward oblivion, but that did not mean...
Paid articleEditorial / Bulbous Tip / Pedalphilia (August 1983)
EDITORIAL BULBOUS TIP by R.Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I have been wrong to call House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Congressman Falstaff. I apologize. There is indeed buffoonery in his yelps and furies over...
Paid articleEditorial / Give Peace a Chance / Commencement Rites (June 1983)
E D I T O R I A L GIVE PEACE A CHANCE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. N. Perhaps I am just another "woolly-headed" liberal, dreaming of a better world mellow under sway of the golden rule; but I...
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EDITORIAL MUGGERIDGE AT 80, MITTERRAND AT FIGARO by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. JuONDON—Here in Europe, having just concluded a long series of meetings with distinguished politicians and writers, this...
Paid articleEditorial/ Prime-Time War/ The Tax-Man Behind the Arras (April 1983)
completely surrounded the nine-mile fence around the base. Some shouted, some sang, some prayed. The fence was the most moving sight of my life except for the birth of my children. It was covered...
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EDITORIAL MICHAEL STRAIGHT, THE QUIET AMERICAN by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Who is the greatest living Ameri-can? In these doldrum days of the Republic, when only quaint fellows like Ronald Reagan...
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well be suffering more from restricted immigration than benefiting from it." Even though the many Cubans who have arrived in Florida recently were penniless, they "brought their wealth with them."...
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Pursuit to Algiers by R.W. Neill (USA, 1945), and Our Da@ Bread by King Vidor (USA, 1934). For some reason, in this part of the museum, there could be heard a bagpipe recording of some...
Paid articleEditorial / The Voice Grows Louder (December 1982)
The American Spectator is now fifteen years old and so is a period of unparalleled American decline in culture and in potitics~ There you have it: Ideas do, indeed, have consequences. This...
Paid articleEditorial/CBS Beholds the Noose/The Calling (November 1982)
vacuum will be filled by a vision--the vision of socialism. The principal item on the agenda then becomes: building a new society. First and foremost, this entails tearing down the old one. In...
Paid articleEditorial / The Plot to Destroy Dan Rather and Me / Facing Our Enemies (October 1982)
Two writers in the Washington Post then noted that Reagan's promise to dismantle the Departments of Education and Energy had bumped into: reality. This was said to be: gr'tty. Literally...
Paid articleEditorial / GOP Saps / Advice to My Friends (September 1982)
country to a decaying husk of tyranny How strange that so many of the founders of the modern state of Israel were themselves socialists, many of them from Russia. They, like Lenin, wanted to...
Paid articleEditorial / Stockpiling for Peace / What's the Fuss? (August 1982)
bees and clues after all and he would have to be watched carefully. The spirit was willing, but the tongue was weak. Then he went to Moscow's only Baptist Church and reminded the congregation...
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admissions, the results of hiring-and now the results of voting. The Supreme Court in 1980 shot this idea down, however, sensibly ruling that litigants who didn't like the election results...
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doran " r e b e l s " have outside assistance, only to be turned down on the ground that "this could endanger the informants " "Everyone remembers very well that it is the United States that...
Paid articleEditorial / With the Senator from Newsweek / Afterthought (May 1982)
This is another way of saying that we hear too much about money supply and not enough about money demand. As I write, we are in a period of rapidly declining inflation. The "money supply" (M1),...
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E D I T O R I A L AND THE U.N. OUT OF THE U.S. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. L a s t month the buffoonery that passes for s t a t e c r a f t at the United Nations made New York's Mayor Edward...
Paid articleEditorial / We Dedicate This Hole . . . /Johnny Eros (March 1982)
E D IT O R I A L R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. WE DEDICATE THIS HOLE... The broiling controversy continues over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial proposed for Washington's Mall. The design accepted by...
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EDITORIAL CAVEMEN ON THE HILL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. It cannot be easy to be a United States congressman. I know it looks easy, all that smiling, schmoosing, and striking of heroic poses; but...
Paid articleEditorial/While Germany Sleeps/The Sidewalks of Rome (November 1981)
EDITORIAL WHILE GERMANY SLEEPS BONN, West Germany-Every now and again it is balm for the spirit to loosen one's tie, uncork a jug, and ventilate a hush-hush fact of life. Having just endured a...
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EDITORIAL MY KIND OF BOMB by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Last month, in the afterglow of the Reagan administration's admission that, yes, it had decided to assemble the neutron bomb, I plugged my ears...
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E D I T a R I A L : FRENCH SOCIALISM AT WORK l It this very moment, somewhere exploiters carrying off the wealth of in France, you can be sure that Pres- France. 'dent Francois Mitterrand has...
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EDITORIAL JOURNALISM AMONGST THE ELKS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Just days before the dastardly Miss Janet Cooke and the Washington Post bespattered the elegant gray robes of the fourth estate by...
Paid articleEditorial / Down and Out in Liberal Fashion (June 1981)
EDITORIAL DOWN AND OUT IN LIBERAL FASHION by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Orwell. Orwellian. The words hold an august position in our political vocabulary. They connote government dependent on fear,...
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EDITORIAL THAT WARM OVAL-SHAPED VACUUM March 6, 1981 was a very sad day in television land. Dr. Cronkite presided over his very last edition of the CBS "Evening News." Then he was gone. We all...
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E D I T O R I A L THE PEARL HARBOR OF THEIR YOUTH by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Last month the National Broadcasting Company presented what the Edmund Wilsons of the television art call a...
Paid articleEditorial / TV's Debauch (March 1981)
EDITORIAL TV's DEBAUCH by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. As the dirty-necked primitives of the Holy Man Khomeini were hauling Jimmy Carter across the last agonies of his hostage ordeal, National Public...
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EDITORIAL JIMMY: AT THE END OF THE REVELS You hold in your hands the ultimate souvenir of the Carter Administration, the official presidential portrait of James Earl Carter,...
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EDITORIAL THE WORST BOOK OF THE YEAR by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Have the eminent minds who dissect our time ever annotated and scrutinized the marvel that until very recently the great bulk of...
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"Editorial / Bibo Ergo Sum" - Alexander the Great is back in the news, and unlike so many of the notables mentioned there, the late Macedonian politico owes his current celebrity not to the artistry of...
Paid articleEditorial / Reagan, Carter, and Cash (November 1980)
"Editorial / Reagan, Carter, and Cash" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. On September 9, in Chicago the city that works," as local boomers still proudly affirm Ronald Reagan unveiled his...
Paid articleEditorial / Jimmy in a Mudslide (October 1980)
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RAMSEY CLARK, WORLD PATRIOT tK.wrimes~ of America Conference"? Did someone say "Crimes of America"? Now where did that disheveled crowd of mediocre graduate students now running...
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"Editorial / Immersed in the Bugging Arts" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, .Jr. On April 23, at the request of Alton Frye, Washington Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.,...
Paid articleEditorial / The Great White Ph.D (June 1980)
EDIT0RIAL "THE GREAT WHITE PH.D" At this writing the nomination of Barry Commoner as presidential candidate for the newly-hatched Citizens Party is not yet official, and it is my sad...
Paid articleEditorial /The Travels of Parson Anderson (May 1980)
Editorial - "THE TRAVELS OF PARSON ANDERSON" Tom Wolfe, midst the drolleries and insights of his superb book, The Right Stuff, depicts the press metaphorically as the "Victorian Gent," the espouser of...
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EDIT0RIAL- "THE MARION STONEHEAD REDEEMED" I wonder whose idea it was to send Mr. Muhammad All, Esq., as presidential envoy to explain American foreign policy to African heads of state....
Paid articleEditorial / Ladies and Gentlemen, My Candidate (March 1980)
I t is not always the gaudy show under the klieg lights that directs the destiny of a nation. Thucydides, Tacitus, Henry Steele Commager-all the greats of the historical sciences will tell...
Paid articleEditorial / America Last (January 1980)
EDITORIAL "AMERICA LAST" When one has reached the advanced age of the Holy Man Ruhollah Khomeini, the professional services of the weatherman become very important indeed. Allah and...
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EDITORIAL THE GREAT JAILER OF THE CARIBBEAN by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Sons and daughters of liberty, let us face up to it: Some dictators have more fun than others. Uncle Joe Stalin had many a gay...
Paid articleEditorial / The Twenty Years' War of the So-called Liberal (November 1979)
EDITORIAL THE TWENTY YEARS' WAR OF THE SO-CALLED LIBERALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The year was I960. John F. Kennedy had promised "to get the country moving again." He built up our military. He...
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EDITORIAL THE RACE BEGINS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I once made bold to say that the present inhabitant of Harding' s bathtub was the most inept man to hold our nation's highest office in this...
Paid articleEditorial / A Parable (July 1979)
EDITORIAL A PARABLE X now have secured in my safe-deposit box a most important document of our time, the May-June 1979 issue of Harvard'Magazine, the magazine of the Harvard alumni association. It...
Paid articleEditorial/The Need for Public Nuisance Law (June 1979)
EDITORIAL THE NEED FOR PUBLIC NUISANCE LAW by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. What is a public nuisance? The question is often put to me now that I have published a book entitled Public Nuisances, and...
Paid articleEditorial / The Mullah Brown (May 1979)
Editorial The Mullah Brown R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. No dictum snatched from the vaults of American thought more wondrously illuminates the character and promise of the Rt. Hon. Edmund...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances (May 1979)
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER !" The celebrated bodybuilder walked onstage, clothed in a navy blazer, an offwhite, open-necked, collarless cotton shirt, and a pair of flared, khaki-colored...
Paid articleEditorial/A New Deal (April 1979)
Editorial A New Deal R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. -Let us form a pact. Any politico running for high public office who insists on assuring us of his "compassion" or "sensitivity" or any related virtue...
Paid articleEditorial/New Vistas in Bigotry (March 1979)
Editorial New Vistas in Bigotry R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. One does not like to put words into the mouth of Theodore H. White. There is always an astonishing plentitude of them pothering about there,...
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Editorial A Positive Proposal from the Ashes R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I have often said that ours is one of the most intellectual and influential audiences of any periodical in the Republic, a...
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Editorial Worst Book of the Year R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I once sat with Arthur Krock in his twilight. He was by then the retired Washington correspondent of the New York Times, three times...
Paid articleEditorial / Jimmy: Midway in the Revels (November 1978)
Editorial Jimmy: Midway in the Revels The saga began on January 20, 1977, the date on which Jimmy was inaugurated 39th President. His inaugural address, intoned in his...
Paid articleEditorial / Henry Kissinger: Metternich Flummoxed (October 1978)
"Editorial / Henry Kissinger: Metternich Flummoxed" Many believe that what the learned and immensely complicated Dr. Henry Kissinger really thinks of it all would make an...
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Paid articleEditorial / Richard Milhous Nixon: The Serenade in B-Flat (June 1978)
"Editorial / Richard Milhous Nixon: The Serenade in B-Flat" R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Richard Milhous Nixon, 5' 10", 165 pounds, Caucasian, male, no distinguishing features. Though a man as common as...
Paid articleA Conversation with Raymond Aron (May 1978)
"A Conversation with Raymond Aron" most information being fed to him orally by his staff. This makes it difficult for him to analyze various developments, and causes him to make decisions on the basis of moods rather than cool...
Paid articleEditorial / Springtime in Europe (May 1978)
"Editorial / Springtime in Europe" Aludicrous episode of the recent past that I believe illumines dark corners of Europe's present was served to us in 1964 by Malcolm Muggeridge. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, he...
Paid articleEditorial / Penetrating the Mysteries of Ravello (April 1978)
"Editorial / Penetrating the Mysteries of Ravello" R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. How abundant with curiosities is this land we call America, this AngloEuropean culture we call the melting pot. Our greatest...
Paid articleEditorial / Encomiums for Califano (March 1978)
"Editorial / Encomiums for Califano" That not one notable in all of Washing- ton- rejoiced at the incongruity of raising up a hustler to preside over the largest governmental department of dogoodery in Christendom I take to...
Paid articleEditorial / Reflections on a Merry State (February 1978)
"Editorial / Reflections on a Merry State" A few ribald quips having been excised, the following diatribe was loosed at New York's St. Regis Hotel on the occasion of a dinner celebrating the tenth anniversary of The American Spectator. A...
Paid articleEditorial / Worst Book of the Year (January 1978)
EDITORIAL - Robert Lowell Coover is a writer who, for a man of middle years, invests an unusual number of his waking hours thinking about underpants. And so very intellectual are the thoughts...
Paid articleEditorial / Andrew Young: The Black Man's Burden (December 1977)
EDITORIAL Andrew Young: The Black Man's Burden Though our nation abounds with gifted men there is only one who President Carter believes will be remembered in history as...
Paid articleEditorial / On Ten Years of Public Service (November 1977)
EDITORIAL On Ten Years of Public Service R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. This journal is now ten years old. Mencken believed that ten years was quite long enough at one job, so last month I quit The...
Paid articleEditorial / Harvard's Tallest Tale (June 1977)
EDITORIAL R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. It is suggestive of the rich times in which we dwell that America's preeminent boomer of socialism, egalitarianism, and an end to hypocrisy in high places, is...
Paid articleEditorial / A World Without Russians (May 1977)
EDITORIAL R. E ~ t t Tyrre#, Jr. A World Without Russians For a decade or so now there has been a growing crowd of foreign policy strategists calling for revolutionary departures in American...
Paid articleEditorial/Poet on a Fuzzy Toilet Seat Cover (April 1977)
EDITORIAL R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Poet on a Fuzzy Toilet Seat Cover How inscrutable are the ways of history! Who ever would have imagined that someday our nation's most gifted...
Paid articleEditorial / A Prophet in Exile (March 1977)
EDITORIAL R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A former Georgia Governor--a Biblepounding Baptist--is President of the Great Republic. A Boston Irishman is Speaker of the House of Representatives. A...
Paid articleEditorial / Hoosier Cantos (February 1977)
EDITORIAL R. Emmott Tyrrell, Jr. Hoosier Cantos The sanguine are saying that the turbulent sixties are behind us; we face a new era now. Welcome tidings these, but I am dubious. Few of...
Paid articleEditorial / The Harold Robbins Award, 1976 (January 1977)
FAFTHE WORST BOOK OF THE YEAR R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Scoundrel Time: Diary of a Schoolgirl "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions"—proud and worthy words orated in...
Paid articleEditorial (December 1976)
EDITORIAL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Ralph Nader and the Return of the Shakers Ralph Nader, LL.B., is neither a scientist, a philosopher, an economist, nor an epicurean. He sleeps but four...
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EDfTORIAL R. Emwurtt Txrredl, Jr. The Wonderboy at Midpassage In an earlier era Jimmy Carter of Plains, Georgia would be devoting himself to procuring his eight-year-old daughter's...
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EDITORIAL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. If you follow the gutters of New York's Fifth Avenue to the south, past the fashionable shops, past Saint Patrick's Cathedral, down past the old...
Paid articleEditorial (August 1976)
Editorial A Tyrrell Chrestomathy Introductory Note This page usually presents an editorial by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. But Tyrrell's zealous researches for next issue's symposium on beers brought...
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Master of Malarkey • Every charlatan knows that the easiest swindles are always put over on the stupidly corrupt, the dull riffraff of the world. That is why...
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Har Har, A Manifesto • The man: his eyes roving, his sweaty hand yearning for another transient flesh-pressing, his head full of what we quickly recognize as...
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Man Who Should Be President From the politicians and the pundits one gets the sense that America is the most ignorant, inept, belligerent, hypocritical, and...
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Thug as Rotarian • As with so many things, there is in art a synergism, a collaboration between the artist and the fragrances, the wails, the rhythms of his...
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Harold Robbins Award • • Theodore H. White has devoted the past fifteen years to developing a new kind of book, a book alluring to the aural tastes of that...
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Writer, The Publisher, The Gull • • Now it strikes me as an extremely melancholy calamity that when the novel died some years ago the American novelist did...
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Art of the Obituary • Every now and again the poetic glow comes upon me, setting off an urge to write something other than my customary composition. I incline...
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Book Review/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Succès de Scandale •• One dark night in early spring of 1975 a desperate howl stabbed the darkness of midtown Manhattan, and for a terrifying moment brave...
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Catastrophic Imperative • • Contemporary America works cruel and enigmatic treacheries on simple folk like me. Reality keeps changing false faces, and lo,...
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Politicians: Rhapsodies on a Theme • • "The People's Right to Know" is one of the trendy sonorities of the 1970s that has hung on long enough to sprout whiskers...
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Once Again, The Locust Years • • Around the middle of the 1960s a critique of American society surfaced, arguing to the effect that American foreign policy was...
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"Editorial" From Cambridge in the East to Berkeley in the West, and not excluding all the cow colleges in between, there are multitudinous colonies of apprehensive little men and women earnestly consuming the...
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"Editorial" In musing over the various abominations committed by the duly constituted governments of this world, it has occurred to me many times that when General Washington and his colleagues gathered to...
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"Editorial" Men originally formed governments to protect themselves from low fellows, at least that is how the late political philos. opher Mr. Thomas Hobbes of London, England saw it. Otherwise life was...
Paid articleTest of Loyalty (January 1975)
"Test of Loyalty" FOR THE SERIOUS READER will prove incomprehensible; nonetheless I recommend it—I recommend it as an artifact of the age. The book is incomprehensible because Peter Schrag, though...
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"Editorial" Honeyfogling Inflation IT IS WITH A NAGGING sadness that I witness the slow sepulchering of historic England. Sadness because I revere the patrimony that Churchill's island...
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"Editorial" WHEN THE STENTORIAN voice of science speaks, a deep, rolling thunder lumbers out of the heavens and most Americans piously bow their heads. It is a stunning show of compliance that has left many an...
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"Editorial" As SOCIETIES GO, modern American society is a bit offbeat; in many ways it is not a society at all. Rather it is a vast snoozing herd whose insular members are constantly driven and abused by a...
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Two Jacks and a Joker Bob Dvlan, Metaphysician THEY SAY ABOUT Mr. Bob Dylan's lyrics that they are filigreed with "metaphysical subtleties" and "surrealistic epigrams." They have embalmed him...
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"Editorial" Intellectualoids: The Lumpen Intelligentsia HE GREAT UNIVERSITIEs of the land are w struggling through high seas merely because a handful of legislators have discovered that the dons have...
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During this extended season of presidential agonies the most riveting realization for me has been that not one of the protagonists in the Watergate Spectacle and its concomitant amusements...
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"Editorial" Of Moose and the Movement During this century one American weakness which has inspired in the civilized minority many ribald hoots and much roistering derision has been the American weakness...
Paid articleEditorial (December 1973)
Probably the most profound platitude one can utter today is t h a t Americans have lost confidence in their institutions. As with many platitudes, this one happens to be true, and I expect there...
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"Editorial" The Sorrows of Young Elmer A favorite ploy for exposing the lamentable benightedness of America's bourgeois citizenry, resorted to by suburban schoolkeepers and related tin...
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The Great Nixon as the Great Gatsby If Mr. Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, were alive today, he would be making heavy weather of it. Whensoever he motored through the valley of ashes...
Paid articleWatergate: The Cartoon Revisited (October 1973)
prove the Watergate justice. One wishes that each reporter who had similarly used bugs illegally might spend an equal time behind bars. Cabell Phillips, in a book called The Truman Presidency,...
Paid articleEditorial (June 1973)
On Taking Slobs Seriously apologists see it, this contemporary Dillinger's world view is just as legiti-mate as that of any other citizen. Indeed it is often portrayed as no different than One...
Paid articleTruman and the Maelstrom of History (April 1973)
hold of the American people with in-creasing intensity during recent years. Not just our talk but our behavior makes it clear that we have a compelling com-mitment to equality, and that leads to a...
Paid articleEditorial (March 1973)
Editorial Toward Democratic Tribalism I suspect that there prowls through every society substantial congeries of public-spirited persons whose animating urge is to lower everyone to their own...
Paid articleFields for President (March 1973)
Fields for President by W. C. Fields Dodd, Mead, $5.95 As a serious enterprise, book reviewing in the United States survives in about the same condition as organized religion- though its...
Paid articleEditorial I (February 1973)
Smartening Up the Chumps Raise a stein! As the bell rings for 1973, the hardpressed members of the civilized minority have been granted a collective reprieve from the New Age, an age of milk and...
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Editorial I: Apathy: A Reappraisal From the New York Times I see that somewhere on the eastern seaboard recently there gathered a group of America's most illustrious intellectuals to hand down...
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Editorial: A President for all the People In the second volume of his Memoirs, President Truman lamented that the president "seldom has time to reflect," and he went on to say that "one of the...
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Editorial I: Magic World,Reform Thyself! There is something about a television studio that makes us all, conversationally speaking, below par. Peregrine Worsthorne, Encounter Today's bitter...
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Editorial II: The Response to Munich, Today and Tomorrow It is natural that people have been shocked by the murder in Munich of eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team by Arab terrorists; it is...
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Editorial Clod Populism's Man of Change Politics is hard work. Whenever elections are utterly unavoidable politicians have to conjure up new potions, regardless how lucrative their present...
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Editorial Hard Times for Endangered Species T ODAY AN URGENT missive bestirred the stillness of this distinguished editorial sanctum. It seems that one of those Pecksniffi~." cliques, which...
Paid articleEditorial (March 1972)
T OCQUEVILLE instructs us that there are two aspects of politics that should never be confused. One embraces art, the other scierice. The art of politics entails "coping with everyday problems...
Paid articleThe Language and the Music of the Wolves (February 1972)
"The Language and the Music of the Wolves" books as adventure stories rather than biography, as indeed they classify Parkinson's Law as humor rather than a study in administration. Well, it's always...
Paid articlePetrPattr (December 1971)
"PetrPattr" that night, a toast which was in essence a serious call to a devout and holy life, a life of involvement in Conservative effort. Amidst some undergraduate...
Paid articleA Whiff from the Highfalutin Women (November 1971)
The Alternative November, 1971 3 Editorial A Whiff from the Highfalutin Women For many years now charlatans have known that the quickest and most certain way to snare the American dope is...
Paid articleFlush Times Return for the Career Moralists (October 1971)
"Flush Times Return for the Career Moralists"
Paid articleThe Greening of America (April 1971)
How Green Grows Your Tale The Greening of America by Charles A. Reich Random House, 97.95 Not very long ago, a regiment of East Coast writers mostly from the Long Island pulp Newsday, was...
Paid articleThe Radical Left (April 1971)
The Radical Left Edited by Gerberding and Smith Houghton Mifflin Co, $8.95 While reading this book be cautious how you rest it on your lap, for certain essays may slop out. In fact, you would be...
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Editorial II When Certitudes turn to Platitudes Last month my distinguished colleague, Mr. Nathan, edified us with one of his typically dispassionate and measured editorials, this time on the...
Paid articleThe Politics of Unreason (January 1971)
The Alternative January, 1971 Slumming On The Rigbt The Politics of Unreason by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab Harper and Row $12.50 This review of Messrs. Lipset and Raab's new study...
Paid articleThe Unheavenly City (December 1970)
The Unheavenly City by Edward C. Banfield Little, Brown, $6.95 Recent years have witnessed some pleasant developments in the field of urban study, to wit the emergence of revisionists. As a matter...
Paid articleToward a National Urban Policy (December 1970)
The Sham of the Cities Toward a National Urban Policy edited by Daniel P. Moynihan Basic Books, $7.95 Now as the responsible editor that I am, I must caution my fellow students against leaping...
Paid articleIN PRAISE OF YOUTHFUL IDEALISM (November 1970)
Cover Story In Praise of Youthful Idealism R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I write from a profound sense of mental and physical exhaustion, for I have just read every jot, tittle and splutter uttered by...
Paid articleREVIEWS (April 1968)
REVIEWS BY EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. The Lawbreakers by M. Stanton Evans and Margaret Moore. Arlington House, $5.95. In dramatically deflating current popular notions on law enforcement, M....
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INTOLERANCE ON THE LEFT A few months ago I ventured to suggest that the middle classes had been given a raw deal. This not very extremist view attracted a good deal of support; but what...
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AGAINST LYING If there is one thing upon which young conservatives and the new left can agree, it is that the Johnson administration has constantly deceived (Walter Cronkite calls it...
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REVIEWS In God and Man at Yale William F. Buckley, Jr., conservatism's Joe Namath, stigmatized "academic freedom" as regnant liberaldom's camouflage for indoctrinating deludable students to...
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THE SEARCH (Continued from Page 2) student electorate had gone on vacation, student government could not. Students elected for the fall semester could go to work immediately in a Pupils'...
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