Will members of the intellectual class let AI rot their brains?
An adage dating at least from my adolescence: “You either use it or lose it.” This bit of folk wisdom,…
The tyranny of the mass-intellectual
In the classical world the question of whether virtue can be taught, or is rather acquired by interior inclination and…
How the Democratic party became the party of the aggrieved
A well-known writer in the 1930s – I think John Dos Passos – compared Southern California to the lower-left corner…
The problem with Greta Thunberg
Like Agatha Christie’s “rescuer from the sea,” Greta Thunberg swept upon Gaza to save the starving, the homeless, the bombed…
Is everything political?
I first heard the slogan “Everything is political” from a left-wing reporter for Wyoming’s statewide newspaper in the mid-1980s, at…
Why are Europeans so untroubled by their ignorance of America?
Laramie, Wyoming Americans are infamous on the eastern side of the Atlantic for knowing little or nothing about European culture,…
A symbol of hope for Europe
Considering the way history has been going for the past quarter of a century, it seems not merely Panglossian but…
The new political era
It seems likely that on Election Day the country entered fully upon the new political era that commenced with the…
Overnight in New Mexico
The three of us sat on folding chairs around the table where Dick had the microphone plugged into a tape…
The era of ideological, overreaching and omnipresent government
It was a law of classical political philosophy that democratic polities devolve inevitably into tyrannical ones. This law is being…
Should elders be respected?
For the left, the world has always been, and always will be, a scandal. In this American election year, it…
The age of mass revenge
Journalists have never been noted for originality in their choice of metaphor, so readers must be wearied by now of…
A history of intellect
It has it been widely noted that, as Western culture generally has grown steadily more materialistic in its values and…
The establishment and the mob
In The Revolt of the Masses — first published in 1930 — José Ortega y Gasset proposed that the most important fact…
Joe Biden is the phantom of the Potomac
The day after the election last week, Roger Kimball posted a column here at The Spectator World acknowledging that he…
The slumber of the Anglosphere
The countries we call Anglo-Saxon (Great Britain, the Commonwealth and the United States) have been known for centuries for their…
Time to invoke the 25th Amendment against Biden?
President Biden’s senile verbal blunders over the past few days have prompted renewed speculation over his mental competency. It’s even…
A Cheney imperiled
Kemmerer, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has the political brain of a sucked egg, as her egregiously self-destructive decision to join…
The future of populist conservatism
Laramie, Wyoming William Kristol, a Grand Poobah of neoconservatism, is leaving the Republican party to join the donkeys of the…
