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R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator and a New York Times best-selling author. He makes frequent appearances on national television and is a nationally syndicated columnist, whose articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, The Washington Times, National Review, Harper's, Commentary, The (London) Spectator, Le Figaro (Paris) and elsewhere.

Articles by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Long live Queen Elizabeth II

Take a break from the news. From the stories of war in Ukraine, the slaughter of schoolchildren in Texas and mayhem against minorities in Buffalo, New York.

June 7, 2022

Gun control won’t stop the madmen living among us

Once again it has happened in plain daylight. A mentally sick barbarian laid his paws on military-grade instruments of war, and he went to war against innocent people.

May 31, 2022

Hillary Clinton caught in perhaps the most shocking lie of her career

The day after Robby Mook, the head of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for the presidency, implicated her at the top of a conspiracy, I could find no mention of it in the leading newspapers, save The Wall Street Journal.

May 24, 2022

Bill Ayers and the celebration of anger and violence in Chicago

Right now I am in the Windy City -- why is not Washington called the Windy City or the Windiest City?

May 17, 2022

Inconsistent liberals’ new enthusiasm for abortion devoid of moral high ground

Do you remember the days when our liberal friends were forever claiming the moral high ground on almost any issue no matter how devoid of moral content the issue might be?

May 10, 2022

Sean Penn and Johnny Depp: Hollywood’s odd couple

I do not go to the movies. Oh, I go to reruns of "The Godfather," "The Godfather: Part II" and "The Godfather: Part III"; there was a "Godfather: Part III" was there not?

April 26, 2022

Biden’s avalanche of problems

Thus far it has also been a dreadful month for Hunter Biden and his forgetful father, the president of the United States, Joe Biden.

April 19, 2022

President Coolidge in an era of wanton spending and breathtaking inflation

I see that President Calvin Coolidge is in the news, along with his sidekick Warren Gamaliel Harding.

April 12, 2022

Conservatives turn on Zelenskyy

Well, now that Americans have had an opportunity to think about the war in Ukraine, cooler heads are coming to the fore. Or they think they are cooler heads.

April 5, 2022

Donald Trump fights back

I read a front-page report last week in the Good Times about the recent doings of former President Donald Trump. It got me to thinking about when I first met him.

March 29, 2022

Hunter and Joe ‘Big Guy’ Biden: When The New York Times says it’s news

At the height of the presidential race pitting former Vice President Joe Biden against then-President Donald Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was given a laptop.

March 22, 2022

DeSantis leads indignant parents against woke school days

As I wrote many years ago, when an entity falls under the control of liberalism it eventually loses all sense of what its purpose was to begin with.

March 15, 2022

Putin’s Ukraine war unites most of the world and all of NATO against him

You might recall last week that I began calling President Vladimir Putin of Russia "KGB Col. Vladimir Putin." I meant to diminish him in the eyes of my readers.

March 8, 2022

KGB Col. Putin’s health in time of war

I hate Vladimir Putin! I would put him in a category with Fidel Castro, Adolf Hitler and his countryman, Josef Stalin.

March 1, 2022

Thoughts on Putin’s Ukraine invasion

What is running through the mind of Russian President Vladimir Putin as 150,000 of his troops mass along the border of Ukraine?

February 22, 2022

‘Woke folk’ talk of uprising, but do they have enough ambition?

There has been an abundance of essays of late about how we are to wage revolution in our comfortable society.

February 15, 2022

Ukraine would have nothing to worry about if it had maintained its nuclear force

Well, Moscow is in the news again. Russian President Vladimir Putin is irritated by the citizens of disobedient Ukraine.

February 8, 2022

Advice for gloomy Democrats: Nominate Kamala Harris to the Supreme Court

Do not let the Democrats fool you. They are deeply in the glooms. Even smiling, happy-go-lucky Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in the glooms, at least behind closed doors.

February 1, 2022

Biden’s gaffes now matter

White House spokesmen have spent days walking back the plagiarist-in-chief's misstatements, but he happens to be the president of the United States and as he himself has said, his words matter.

January 25, 2022