The Republican march on Rome
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Will the Republicans fritter their wins away as Hannibal did after Cannae?
Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball is a US columnist for The Spectator, the publisher of Encounter Books and the editor and publisher of the New Criterion.
Monday
The Chablis complex
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The wine is renowned for its consistency, intricacy and near-immortality
Wednesday
What to drink at Thanksgiving
This is a tricky column. It’s still hot and humid where I am, which inclines me to tell you about some summer wines. But you won’t be reading this until just before Thanksgiving, which means something robust and cockle warming is in order. A fork in the road rises up before me. Which path should
Thursday
Republicans need to figure out mail-in voting
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It’s being used by Democrats to influence the course of elections
Wednesday
How did I get the midterms so wrong?
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I was hardly alone but that is no consolation
Monday
The Republicans will come for the FBI after the midterms
As one commentator noted, Tuesday’s red wave in the midterm elections is going to be like the red elevator scene in The Shining. I had to look that one up but, yep, it seems like an appropriate metaphor for what is about to happen. Some hapless scribe called Emily Oster recently wrote an article for the Atlantic called ‘Let’s declare
Sunday
How the midterm polls became Democratic fan fiction
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Psephologists of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your fibs!
Monday
Roger Scruton's philosophy of wine
The philosopher Roger Scruton died in January 2020 just a few weeks shy of his 76th birthday. He left behind a large circle of admirers and a correspondingly large shelf of books in a variety of genres – novels, opera libretti, volumes of occasional journalism, cultural and architectural criticism, and various philosophical works, popular as
Saturday
A history lesson for Donald Trump
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The former president should follow precedent
Thursday
Alejandro Mayorkas has no shame
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The DHS secretary is clearly the winner of this week’s Best Lying Despot Contest
Tuesday
Joe Biden and the Sovietization of America
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What does it mean that he’s demonized half the country?
Thursday
Just because Biden thinks he’s running again doesn’t mean he is
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He also seems to think he was at the top of his law school class
Tuesday
Donald Trump is looking forward
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Maggie Haberman is mistaken to think he’s lost in the past
Thursday
An American remembrance of the Queen
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It says a lot that when I say ‘the Queen’ even American readers know I can mean only one person
Friday
Biden declares war on half the country
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The malignant and divisive spirit of his speech will not soon be quelled
Tuesday
The bucolic Beaujolais
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There is a time for every wine
Thursday
Liz Cheney: the self-appointed moral center of the GOP
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The soon-to-be-ex-congresswoman doesn’t care for DeSantis, Cruz or Hawley either
Monday
The real motivation for the FBI raid
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It wasn’t to collect classified documents
Friday
Donald Trump has enemies everywhere
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Even, according to Peter Navarro, inside his own house
The complicated history of English wine
Hugh Johnson’s classic World Atlas of Wine, first published in the early 1970s, is now up to its eighth edition. My edition, the sixth, was published in 2007. It is 400 pages long and has exactly one page devoted to the wine of the United Kingdom. The latest edition is 16 pages longer but it, too,