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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.

Congressman Matt Gaetz is attacking his own party and destroying the House GOP’s ability to govern

I am surprised that so many adults are having such a difficult time dealing with Rep. Matt Gaetz, Florida's boy congressman.

October 10, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs protection

What is happening with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign for the presidency? Well, he is running second behind President Biden, but I am counting on Bobby to make a race of it with the old boy.

September 26, 2023

Comedian Vladimir Putin talks about weaponization of government

Well, we finally got to see the funny side of Vladimir Putin, the usually dour president of Russia.

September 19, 2023

Pope Francis kowtows to godless Chinese

More gibberish is still emitting from the pope as he travels to and from the Far East.

September 12, 2023

The Russian syndrome: Putin and the pope

A new voice is being heard, adding his two bits to the conversation about hostilities between Russia and Ukraine. His is an unlikely commentary.

September 5, 2023

Woke Goody Two Shoes crowd targets conservative media outlets

They are coming at us once again. Who? The Goody Two Shoes crowd that claims to have no political interests whatsoever.

August 27, 2023

Big Guy Biden: What started out as admirable quickly devolved into corruption

I do not mean to be melodramatic, but as I think about Hunter and Joe Biden's problems with the law, it seems to me that we are facing a national tragedy.

August 15, 2023

Putin’s crony system of government is failing

There was a curious report in the Washington Post late last month. I saw it in no other newspaper.

August 8, 2023

Why is the White House refusing Secret Service protection to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?

What has happened to the Democratic Party? Its elites have only one old codger running for the highest office in the land.

August 1, 2023

In praise of Clarence Thomas

Justice Clarence Thomas is one of the truly great figures to grace the Supreme Court in our history.

July 25, 2023

Almost no place in Putin’s Russia is immune to corruption, incompetence

Well, how are things going for Vladimir Putin? He has been showing a KGB sleuth's cunning at warfare for over a year now, and by the way, the enemy is winning the war.

July 18, 2023

Britons have set partisan politics aside, so why can’t we?

I have spent the last three weeks in a very pleasant place, Europe. Not in Moscow, nor in Kyiv, nor even in Paris. Actually, I have been in London.

July 11, 2023

America’s rejection of corporate virtue flaunters and ‘woke’ ideology

I always used to purchase Gillette shaving products. Gillette made products that appealed to me. When I was a boy, Gillette advertised on the Friday night boxing matches. That was enough inducement for me.

June 20, 2023

President Putin, it’s time to retire

I have not seen Russian President Vladimir Putin passing through the Russian outback with his shirt off lately. Have you? He used to ride around the countryside shirtless and on horseback.

June 13, 2023

Introduce a new category for transgender athletes

Some time ago, I wrote that there was an easy and suave way to solve transgender people's yearning for an opportunity to compete with female athletes.

June 6, 2023

What’s playing at the Kennedy Center? Our sick culture

Last week, in this space, I wrote about culture and how essential it is to the politics of a nation. If the culture of a country is upbeat, the country will be fine. If the culture of a country is in decline, its politics will follow.

May 30, 2023

America has become a ‘vast wasteland’ of sex and violence

Do you know that this country was once derided as being the most prudish of all the major countries on Earth, even more prudish than the U.K.! For decades, we were laughed at for our prudish ways.

May 23, 2023

I did not like Tucker Carlson very much until Rupert Murdoch fired him

Tucker Carlson's recent travails with the media remind me of the great M. Stanton Evans' Solomonic judgment regarding President Richard Nixon.

May 9, 2023

Milton Friedman’s school choice victory

Who's buried in Grant's tomb? Actually, President Ulysses S. Grant is buried in Grant's tomb, which comes as a surprise to young Americans educated in our modern educational factories.

May 2, 2023