As the World Series approached a finale, I was in Panama City — the one with the canal, not the popular spring break destination of the same name in the Florida panhandle. With every television in every sports bar or lobby here tuned to the World Series, baseball’s power to Read more
I hope Larry Alex Taunton’s Friday lament of the advancing feminization of what’s left of the Western world, and the demonizing of masculinity by the smart set, receives the wide readership it deserves. What a fine and insightful fellow Taunton is, though he hangs more of masculinity’s hat on hunting than I would. Read more
Rapper Kanye West’s much anticipated latest album Jesus Is King dropped yesterday to the howls of critics and, as is to be expected of a medium designed to give electronic voice to the reactionary, social media. But why? Read Full Article on The American Spectator Larry Alex Taunton is an Read more
It was a beautiful Saturday only a couple of weeks ago, and I sat in a foldable camouflage chair, 12 gauge over/under shotgun in hand, beneath the sparse cover of a pine tree. My host, a dozen yards away, sat uncomfortably on a bucket turned over for that purpose, his Read more
In 2017, I literally went around the world in 80 days as part of a series I was writing on how the world stacked up against America. Like Phileas Fogg, minus the hot air balloon, I visited every continent but Antarctica. I explored the Amazon rainforest with a naturalist in Read more
“Tom Brady is unquestionably a great quarterback and among the greatest of all time,” admits Larry Alex Taunton at The American Spectator. “So when I say that he is overrated I don’t mean that he is not good or that he is average. No, he is, as I have said, Read more
I have published articles on many controversial topics: Trump, border walls, religion, politics, terrorism, Tim Tebow, and, heck, even one on dodgeball. But this may be my most controversial subject yet. Here goes: Tom Brady is overrated. READ FULL ARTICLE ON THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR Larry Alex Taunton is an author, Read more
Originally Published on December 1st, 2007 Read Part 1 of this series herePart 2Part 3Part 4Part 5 Twelve years ago, Larry got the wild idea of bringing notorious atheist and Oxford evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, to Birmingham, Alabama for a debate on the central tenets of his bestseller, The God
The atheist “Reason Rally” that will take place in Washington on Saturday, March 24 symbolizes the growing strength of atheism in American culture and politics. Events of this kind are meant to get our attention and to generate media interest and articles such as this one. So as people prepare
“Church became all about ceremony, handholding, and kumbaya,” Phil said with a look of disgust. “I missed my old youth pastor. He actually knew the Bible.” I have known a lot of atheists. The late Christopher Hitchens was a friend with whom I debated, road tripped, and even had a