R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator, a political and cultural monthly, which has been published since 1967. Tyrrell founded The American Spectator (originally called The Alternative) in 1967 after receiving a master of arts in history from Indiana University, from which he also received his bachelor of arts in 1965. In 1979 Time magazine named Tyrrell one of the 50 future leaders of America. In 1978, the U.S. Jaycees chose him as one of their "Ten Outstanding Young Americans" of the year. In 1977, he received the American Institute for Public Service's Award for the "Greatest Public Service Performed by an American 35 Years or Under." The same year, he was presented with the American Eagle Award of the Invest-In-America National Council. Tyrrell currently serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the United States Naval Academy. He is also a member of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:00:01 GMT Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:00:01 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ LONDON -- I am in London preparing a couple of talks on politics that I am to give this week, and I have made a very unhappy discovery. A new book, written by a promising young American historian, reveals a secret about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/07/03/clinton_and_i_at_georgetown 4864cfb8-c414-4d17-a274-f59aaae16381 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:00:01 GMT SARLAT, France -- I have journeyed to the south of France to continue my research into the earliest ancestors of America's present-day political exotics. The American scene abounds with bizarre creatures: feminists,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/06/26/tracing_the_roots_of_environmentalism 08335701-43ba-4607-b8e1-a1953799642b Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:00:16 GMT WASHINGTON -- The stature and repute of our public figures are shaped, as I have written before, by this thing called Kultursmog . It is our political culture, a kultur utterly polluted by politics, left http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/06/19/bush_over_truman 866d5d03-9a34-41b5-a3ca-793a79481ce1 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The other day, an aroused Bill Clinton addressed a female reporter in South Dakota, shouting a word into her face that the "Dictionary of American Slang" labels "Taboo." As the reporter recorded http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/06/05/bill_clinton_aroused 215cffa1-4874-46e6-b487-5b22fd3416fc Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- As I noted several weeks back, some very bizarre happenings began to haunt the Obama campaign in April. The candidate -- taking his breakfast in a Scranton, Pa., eatery -- was asked by a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/05/29/meet_the_gaffable_barack_obama 421f8f36-8840-4fb3-aca6-5c2c627fd295 Thu, 29 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Poor Neville Chamberlain. The long-deceased British prime minister -- remembered through the decades for his policy of appeasement and for the war with Hitler that it hastened -- now suffers yet another... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/05/22/appeasement_as_a_hate_term f19e6cdf-e40d-4d24-bc9d-5c275420484a Thu, 22 May 2008 04:00:02 GMT WASHINGTON -- Readers of this column will recall that from time to time in covering an election cycle, I have referred to a voting bloc that political analysts of more delicate sensibilities would rather not mention, to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/05/15/campaigning_on_ignorance 95931f87-a387-46a0-8f77-de5d28d6e6b4 Thu, 15 May 2008 04:00:23 GMT WASHINGTON -- The most momentous political story of the hour is not what you might think . whatever you might think. It has to do with an American politician now living in London and his aspiration to become president... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/05/08/the_mayor_of_london_who_would_be_president 8d754e95-5058-4ea2-9276-e9f7e781a774 Thu, 08 May 2008 04:00:47 GMT WASHINGTON -- The heavy seas that the Obama campaign is now encountering should trouble us all. It is utterly appropriate for a one-term United States senator to be questioned about the extent of his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/05/01/of_barack_obama_and_al_smith fa51a499-c38a-46ba-a940-bafdc0609f72 Thu, 01 May 2008 21:38:36 GMT WASHINGTON -- Anyone who has followed politics studiously over the years is aware that there are gifted politicians who, for whatever reason, eventually find their campaigns haunted. I do not mean haunted by accidental... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/04/24/obama_and_the_weird f95d9c83-70cd-41f2-892c-2dc1bf9bfe8c Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:44 GMT WASHINGTON -- In the 1980 presidential election, the American people did the best they could with President Jimmy Carter, given the limitations imposed on them by our Constitution: They retired him from office (44... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/04/17/jimmy_carter_amok 123dc843-5354-4435-99e9-30c76e4e778b Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:00:25 GMT WASHINGTON -- The other day, I was beholding Fox News' beauteous Martha MacCallum on her TV salon, "The Live Desk," when a smudge darkened my otherwise sunny afternoon. Linda Chavez, that perennial... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/04/10/crab-antics_conservatives 875c2b47-373d-4a3f-b9f3-bb847a5041a7 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:00:58 GMT WASHINGTON -- Regarding the present economic apprehensions, may I counsel calm and good sense. As for those agitated voices in the chorus, ululating of our dire straits and even of depression and doom, remember they... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/04/03/invincible_ignorance 8f634b9d-ecac-41e1-b60a-2eb197ed5ceb Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:01:11 GMT WASHINGTON -- As the Clintons enter their 17th year at the center of the national stage, some Washington pundits are running out of patience with them. My condition is more desperate. I am running out of jokes about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/03/27/hillarys_latest_whoppers 86f82926-006c-4b39-b2ae-53e44b6c3bfd Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:00:05 GMT WASHINGTON -- On the evening of March 6 in Jerusalem, a heavily armed Palestinian terrorist from nearby east Jerusalem entered the Mercaz Harav yeshiva and opened fire on the unarmed teenage students studying there.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2008/03/20/a_palestinian_poll 82da9631-2a31-4637-bc36-13f4b0fdf203 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:00:30 GMT