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R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

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.

Illustration on the fruits of Bill and Hillary Clinton's sexual misadventures by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Sex lives matter

History is full of surprises. Never have I, looking back on history, found it to go precisely as I had anticipated it would go. Always the reality of history's progress plays tricks on us. It now appears that the sexual revolution begun in the late 1960s is ending, and would it not be spectacular if one or two of its most famous products were done in by this historic turn of events?

October 11, 2016
Hillary Gangster Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Hillary Clinton’s hired thugs quieted Bill Clinton’s mistresses

Through the years one of my favorite sallies against the Clintons has been to refer to Hillary Clinton as "Bruno." At times readers have asked, "Why do you call her Bruno?" It is because there has always been an atmosphere of thuggishness about her.

October 4, 2016
Illustration on growing voter attitude toward the presidential candidates by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Why Donald Trump is winning

On the matter of the debate the other night, tell the truth. Admit it. You were underwhelmed. Somewhere inside of your cranium you did not get the spectacle you anticipated. I understand.

September 27, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pauses while she remarks on the explosion in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood onboard her campaign plane at Westchester County Airport, in White Plains, N.Y., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Hillary Clinton’s persistent lies

Did you see the interview over the weekend of a listless and apparently exhausted Hillary Clinton? Supposedly she has recovered from last week's bout with pneumonia, but you could have fooled me. Call me a hypochondriac, but in my opinion her recovery is not going very well.

September 20, 2016
Mother Teresa Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

When Malcolm Muggeridge met Mother Teresa

Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa on Sunday. She was a celestial figure to many, for sweating away in Calcutta with "the poorest of the poor." By that oft-used term was meant the poor for whom a government "poverty line" would be a luxury. Mother Teresa took in street urchins, the hopelessly sick and the dying -- lost souls who were at death's door.

September 6, 2016
Illustration on Hillary, racism and the quadrennial spotlighting of the KKK for political advantage by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Hillary Clinton plays the race card on cue

I have a rule or two about the topic of race. Possibly, I could extend it to three or four rules. The first rule is that in a dialogue about politics, current events, horticulture, haute cuisine, you name it, the first person to introduce the question of race is probably a racist.

August 30, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is attempting to woo black voters, but GOP campaign veterans say his efforts are too little, too late. (Associated Press)

The media’s anti-Trump frenzy makes history

This week I am going to do something unusual. I am going to enter into a conversation with another columnist. Doing so was not so unusual a few decades back. Bill Buckley and James Jackson Kilpatrick did it when provoked and it was always interesting. Yet today a columnist is a godlike figure.

August 23, 2016
Illustration on the first death attributable to Hillary Clinton's unsecured server by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Shahram Amiri the first casualty of Hillary Clinton’s server

Exactly how damaging the classified information is that was discovered on Hillary Clinton's server became clear this weekend when the Iranian government executed an alleged spy. He had been mentioned in at least one email from an aide to Hillary, which called him "our friend."

August 9, 2016
Illustration on the corruption of the Summer Olympics by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Beware the Olympics

Let us change the subject. August is upon us, and it is time to change the subject from the hype of presidential politics to the hype of international sports. No, not the hype of international soccer -- the scam of that racket is well known. Let us turn to the hype of international Olympic competition.

August 2, 2016
Illustration on the negating of Trump votes by Republicans by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Inadvertent Conservatives for Hillary Clinton

I have coined another neologism to go along with those I have coined over the years. For instance, Kultursmog for a political culture utterly polluted by the left's politics, Black Cat News Story for a news story that the mainstream media hope will sink a conservative candidate, Boy Clinton for you know who, Bruno for his wife whom a former director of the FBI likened to a member of organized crime.

July 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton, certifiable. Illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Hillary Clinton’s lying is the behavior of a sociopath

When Great Britain's Boris Johnson was forced out of the running to replace David Cameron as prime minister by an act of the utmost treachery, the civilized minority on both sides of the Atlantic knew that we had only one candidate left to deliver us amusement and a dramatic shift to good government, Donald Trump.

July 19, 2016
Illustration on Obama's devisive rhetoric by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Obama’s blather in time of tragedy

Race is what you make of it. For me I have made race a part of what social scientists once called the "melting pot," by which they meant that differences of ethnicity and even of race were all melted down into one great variegated country called America.

July 12, 2016
Mr. Potato Head Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Donald Trump not tripped by fact checkers

I see that CNN is calling upon the good offices of Mr. Potato Head to refute Donald Trump's evisceration of Hillary Clinton in his speech last Wednesday. Mr. Potato Head is very indignant that Peter Schweizer has written a book, "Clinton Cash," demonstrating that a pattern of corruption exists in the relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton State Department.

June 27, 2016
Illustration on Clinton money by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Clintons make Donald Trump look like a Good Samaritan

It has now been a year since Donald Trump formally became a politician and declared his candidacy for the nation's highest office. Actually, it has been a little over a year, because he was considering it for months before he declared from Trump Tower on June 16, 2015. What has he learned?

June 21, 2016
50 origami birds made by Samantha Brouwer and Gabrielle Grace sit around a rainbow flag during a vigil honoring the Orlando shooting victims hosted by the Kalamazoo Gay Lesbian Resource Center in Kalamazoo, Mich. on Monday, June 13, 2016. A gunman has killed dozens of people in a massacre at a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. on Sunday, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (Chelsea Purgahn/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP) LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL RADIO OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

Civics education could prevent another Orlando

The Boston Marathon, San Bernardino, and now Orlando -- it goes on and on, as Donald Trump might say. And it is going to continue to get worse, as Mr. Trump already has said. He is the most prescient campaigner in this race for the presidency.

June 14, 2016
Illustration on the state of intellectual life on the nation's college campuses by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Founders’ thoughts unwelcome in academia

Looking back through the years, I have seen it all coming: the militant ignorance strutting across our college campuses today, the authoritarian style of the administrators, the mediocrity of the professors, the sheer goofiness of the students.

June 7, 2016
American Tradition Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Liberals’ attempts to expunge culture are unsportsmanlike

Madrid -- One thing that conservatives overlook in their worldview is tradition. We favor limited government, free enterprise, the social issues, a strong defense, but as to the basic theme of tradition we slide over it. Russell Kirk, an important conservative thinker from the recent past, favored tradition and he wrote about it, but I cannot think of another prominent thinker in recent years who stressed it.

May 24, 2016
Illustration on Hillary's crumbling legal situation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Hillary Clinton’s FBI hazard

Last week the exigent news story was all about the conservative crack-up, which pleased me. I wrote a book titled "The Conservative Crack-Up" many moons ago, though I had a lot more facts in my book than you will find in all the news reports that appeared last week. Moreover, my crack-up had a happier ending for conservatives than the crack-up predicted last week for contemporary conservatives.

May 10, 2016