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3 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Freddy Gray |Roger Kimball |Sam Olsen
The parade of books about the behind-the-scenes palace intrigue of Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical decline is in full-swing. And most are being written by journalists from the very news outlets who helped cover it all up – or at least didn’t go out of their way to question Biden’s obvious decline before the June 27 debate made it impossible for them to do so. Excerpts of a new book by the Hill correspondent Amie Barnes and NBC political reporter Jonathan Allen were released this week.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |Damian Reilly |Ben Domenech |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller
The right-wing media rumor mill threatened to spin off its axis earlier this week with the shock announcement that “god king” Jeremy Boreing was stepping down as co-CEO of the Daily Wire. Boreing, a keen film enthusiast who starred, wrote and directed in the Wire’s comedy movie Lady Ballers, is withdrawing to “focus on creative projects for the company,” per Axios’s Sara Fischer. The DW’s many detractors had a field day with the news – speculating that there was more to the story.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |Damian Reilly |Ben Domenech |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller
Rumors abound about god king’s exitThe right-wing media rumor mill threatened to spin off its axis earlier this week with the shock announcement that “god king” Jeremy Boreing was stepping down as co-CEO of the Daily Wire. Boreing, a keen film enthusiast who starred, wrote and directed in the Wire’s comedy movie Lady Ballers, is withdrawing to “focus on creative projects for the company,” per Axios’s Sara Fischer.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Bethany Mandel |Ben Domenech |Bridget Phetasy
Bill Burr has built a successful stand-up comedy and film career on being the cranky scold next door – and his acts have always been tinged with the politics of the moment. He built his reputation as an expert on reading a room and knowing exactly how uncomfortable to make the people in said room while also making them laugh.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Bill Kauffman |Damian Reilly |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Teresa Mull
“Giant Asteroid” has been a popular also-ran in the last three presidential elections, at least judging from bumper stickers, and those wiseacres who preferred planetary annihilation to Hillary, Biden, Kamala and Trump may finally get their wish in 2032, when the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has — according to current calculations, liable to change — about a 3 percent chance of hitting Earth.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Roger Kimball |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Teresa Mull
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DoGE) continues merrily to chop programs and departments left, right and center. Federal diversity, equity and inclusion officials were suspended on his first day in office, prior to being given their marching orders. Government employees have been ordered to justify their existence by explaining what, if anything, they achieved last week. All of this ought to be a positive influence on how the US is governed.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Mitchell Jackson
What had initially looked like one of the most wide-open Academy Awards in history turned out to be nothing of the kind. Indie director Sean Baker’s twisted romantic comedy Anora —about a sex worker who marries an oligarch’s son —had won the Palme d’Or at Cannes last year.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Frank Ricci |Neal Pollack |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Ani Wilcenski
Firefighters do not run into a blaze like you see on TV. We crawl with purpose like rats in a maze, which is what a well-involved structure fire feels like, the smoke so thick our high-powered flashlights can’t cut through it. We are trained to locate windows and leave furniture in place as reference points while we conduct search and rescue then scurry to the nearest walls. It makes it all the more vital to have another firefighter with you.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Frank Ricci |Neal Pollack |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Ani Wilcenski
Firefighters do not run into a blaze like you see on TV. We crawl with purpose like rats in a maze, which is what a well-involved structure fire feels like, the smoke so thick our high-powered flashlights can’t cut through it. We are trained to locate windows and leave furniture in place as reference points while we conduct search and rescue then scurry to the nearest walls. It makes it all the more vital to have another firefighter with you.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Mitchell Jackson
Somehow the strange circumstances of the death of Gene Hackman, found dead in his New Mexico home with his wife Betsy and their dog, make the end of one of America’s finest actors all the more poignant. The full details will presumably become clear soon — but whatever happened, it is more important to remember Hackman’s legendary on-screen career than to waste time fixating on his final moments.
