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R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

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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.

The Peach Dome Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Perils of a Trump impeachment

What does the future have in store for us if Congress succeeds in impeaching President Donald Trump, the president who presides over the best economy America has had in the last 50 years?

November 5, 2019
The Three Stooges Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Obama administration’s spying on Donald Trump

The FBI and CIA, in cahoots with Mrs. Hillary Clinton and those popularizing the infamous "dossier" she financed, threw a blanket of darkness over Donald Trump's campaign.

October 29, 2019
William Barr in the Dumpster Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The atheists versus Bill Barr

The insistence on the separation of church and state has taken a draconian leap. Not only is religion to be extirpated from all government activity, but even the public mention of religion is to be frowned upon. Unless, of course, you are against religion.

October 22, 2019
Democratic presidential candidates from left, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, and former Maryland Rep. John Delaney participate in a Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

A Democratic Party full of foul mouths

The Democratic National Committee has repeatedly had to caution its candidates for high office against vile language, and I am not talking about some dirty-mouthed candidate from some remote congressional seat.

October 15, 2019
Illustration on college professors as the enemy of excellence on campus by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

What’s making college life so trivial?

What is going on in the Women's Studies Programs, the Black Studies Programs, the Vegetarian Studies Programs, and all the other non-studies programs that have taken over from the humanities and rendered university life so trivial?

October 8, 2019
FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Des Moines Register Soapbox during a visit to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. Three Democrats in their 70s are vying to challenge the oldest first-term president in U.S. history. But science says age isn’t a proxy for fitness. The bigger question is how healthy you are and how well you function. With only a few years separating them, President Donald Trump at 73 has mocked Biden, 76. Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, 77, try to showcase physical activity on the campaign trial while 70-year-old Elizabeth Warren even jogs around at rallies. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

The gaffable Joe Biden

Recently in Hanover, New Hampshire, former Vice President Joe Biden -- the gaffable Joe Biden -- stitched together a stupendous concatenation of gaffes that ought to put him out of the race for the Democratic nomination.

September 3, 2019
FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2013 file photo, David Koch speaks in Orlando, Fla. Koch, major donor to conservative causes and educational groups, has died on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. He was 79. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Remembering David Koch

David Koch, one of the two celebrated Koch brothers known to millions of Americans who follow the news, passed away last Friday. He was 79.

August 27, 2019
Broken Woodstock Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Woodstock, the last word

Well, all the palaver about the 50th anniversary of Woodstock has finally shut down. The reminiscences, the brave statements, the claptrap about how beautiful we all were -- it is over.

August 20, 2019
In this Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks on the telephone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Democrats, the party of dirty language

I was traveling with candidate Trump during the 2016 campaign, and we spent a night at the Trump National Doral Miami. I had to leave early to get back to Washington, and so I took a taxi the next morning from the hotel to the airport.

August 13, 2019
From left, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Andrew Yang and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, are introduced before the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

‘How left will they go?’

After a week of watching the Democrats in debate I ask myself, how far to the left are the Democratic presidential candidates going to take their party?

August 6, 2019
Washington Times Editor In Chief Wesley Pruden. ( Maya Alleruzzo / The Washington Times )

Obituarizing Wes Pruden

All over America, people longed for Wes Pruden's twice-weekly serving of good sense and good humor.

July 23, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., center, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, attend a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019, on White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's violation of the Hatch Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

‘House Speaker Pelosi, laugh the girls off’

Apropos of the Saturday Evening Club, I recently heard from the office of the most famous freshman member of Congress. I invited Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be our special guest at a dinner some months ago.

July 16, 2019