What was Ted Cruz thinking?
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The senator implicitly bolstered the false Democratic narrative about January 6
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.
Sunday
Monday
Travels with Herodotus
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Young grapes and Ancient Greeks
How the 1960s institutionalized us
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The long march of the cultural revolution has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams
Saturday
Adieu, Teddy Roosevelt
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It’s open season on the past
Friday
Who’s a vigilante anyway?
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A Washington Post writer thinks that, circa 2021, we do not have enough government in our lives
Friday
Silence of the Jussie Smollett defenders
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It turns out that ‘systemic racism’ is what you have to rely on when there is no actual racism to be found
Thursday
John Eastman is right to resist the January 6 committee
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The congressional inquiry would be better named a congressional vendetta
Thursday
The doctor is mad
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The American Medical Association has just issued a health equity guide
Silky, sumptuous wines for Christmas dinner
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Chambertin was Napoleon’s favorite wine. I am prepared to make it mine, too, at least for Christmas
Sunday
Is the Russia collusion hoax about to be exposed?
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John Durham has indicted three people but he may break our hearts yet
Thursday
Actually Youngkin’s victory shows Trump is still strong
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The former president laid the groundwork for opposing critical race theory in schools
Thursday
Joe Biden takes his failures on tour
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The 46th president heads to the G20 and COP26 empty-handed
Friday
Anthony Fauci’s metaphysical get-out-of-jail-free card
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It is long past time that the good doctor was called to account
Monday
Two modest but delightful wines
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Uncork them for Thanksgiving
The problem with Ovid
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Ovid clearly was not an enlightened modern
Sunday
Christopher Steele – the spy who loved himself
Delicious. Christopher Steele, the single most discredited actor in the entire Trump-Russia collusion nonsense, is set to be interviewed on Monday by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, the single most pompous of all the brood of lying, self-important American talking heads. I know that there is stiff competition for that first title. After all, Steele had to beat
Tuesday
Is this the beginning of the end of the Biden administration?
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Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools
Tuesday
Why Biden is hiding
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The President is our version of Nietzsche’s ‘Last Man’, who not only blinks but gibbers
Wednesday
The great unraveling
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The Biden administration is an unmitigated disaster unfolding in real time
Condiments and conservatives
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Give the People what we want