Roger Kimball is a US columnist for The Spectator, the publisher of Encounter Books and the editor and publisher of the New Criterion.
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
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Psephologists of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your fibs!
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
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The former president should follow precedent
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The DHS secretary is clearly the winner of this week’s Best Lying Despot Contest
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What does it mean that he’s demonized half the country?
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He also seems to think he was at the top of his law school class
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Maggie Haberman is mistaken to think he’s lost in the past
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It says a lot that when I say ‘the Queen’ even American readers know I can mean only one person
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The malignant and divisive spirit of his speech will not soon be quelled
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There is a time for every wine
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The soon-to-be-ex-congresswoman doesn’t care for DeSantis, Cruz or Hawley either
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It wasn’t to collect classified documents
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Even, according to Peter Navarro, inside his own house
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,
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After the Mar-a-Lago raid, when will the public stop standing for this?
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Joe Biden is an errand boy, a figurehead, and he has outlived his plausibility
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If they want to back right-wing candidates, have at it
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The law professor is fighting for her job after students allege racism
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The six wines that I recently had an opportunity to taste ranged from fetching to fantastic
