Taking a page from Lenin’s playbook
It’s like Biden wants us to be poor
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.
Thursday
Why we’ll all miss Boris
He had more élan than any prime minister since Margaret Thatcher
Tuesday
The sequel to January 6
When can we expect the select committee to investigate the plot to assassinate Kavanaugh?
Thursday
The learned drinkers
‘Old wine not only tastes better but is better for one’s health’
Woke is truly going broke
Netflix is just the latest casualty
Thursday
We must stand up for private rights
Against a rampant and engorging bureaucratic Leviathan
Monday
Bargain Brazilian wines
Brazil’s light, fruity and approachable wines are likely to find a place in the American market
Thursday
Tastes of paradise
Blue skies, periodic showers that freshen the verdure and intelligent governance from Ron DeSantis: no wonder they call it paradise
Saturday
Why not Trump in 2024?
National Review’s Never Trump redux gets it wrong
Saturday
Kamala Harris laughs at a war
The vice president’s ‘diplomatic jaunt’ around Eastern Europe was an embarrassment
Thursday
Kamala invades Poland
From our UK edition
You can tell that the Biden administration is getting serious. They have unleashed their ultimate weapon, cackle diplomacy. The warhead is nicknamed Harris, and it is now in Poland cackling away, endeavouring to assemble the high-level Pierogis before Russia flattens Kiev or Putin decides to go nuclear – and by ‘go nuclear’, alas, I mean ‘go
Wednesday
The Ukraine debacle showcases Joe Biden’s many failures
Thanks to his energy policy, the US is helping to fund Russia’s military adventurism
Sunday
The heady reds of Avignon
The big three grapes in a typical Châteauneuf-du-Pape are Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre
Tuesday
Little Justin and the secession of the plebs
Is it time for freedom-loving Canadians to mount a general strike?
Monday
A plague of phony experts and elites
Totalitarian ideas are now out in the open
Monday
End of the road for malicious lockdowns
Our elites are finally waking up to the consequences — or maybe they’re just scared of growing public anger
Monday
New Rome, new home
I wonder whether the moment hasn’t come to begin thinking of Washington the way the later emperors thought of Rome
Delicious wines from the Omicron Open
Fans of The Philadelphia Story will remember the starring role played by Miss Pommery 1926
Saturday
Malik Faisal Akram and our shoddy security state
What happened in Colleyville is a lesson in intelligence failure and the toxic effect of wokeness on the FBI
Friday
Ted Cruz’s glorious about-face on January 6
After describing participants as ‘violent terrorists,’ he took the FBI to task
