The screw-top letters
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The necessity of snobbery
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.
Friday
Tuesday
Kamala Harris’s Orwellian future
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Having a bad memory is going to be absolutely crucial in the Harris-Biden era
Wednesday
Impeachment 2.0 is another silly sham
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Sen. Rand Paul is right
Friday
Joe Biden’s ‘harmony’ is curiously divisive
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Tolerance exists only for ideas that are completely consonant with the left-liberal agenda
Friday
Are we back in the Obama White House?
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Biden, on or past the threshold of senility, is the embodiment of that pajama-boy spirit of fragile futility
Wednesday
Nietzsche and Wagner
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Strong vines for the festive season
Saturday
Is America still a democratic republic?
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The Texas decision is not the end of the world for Donald Trump’s legal team
Thursday
Hunter becomes the hunted
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Will the Delaware tax probe into Biden’s son go anywhere?
Monday
Brace yourselves for President Harris
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She occupies an eyrie on the far left of the Democratic party
Wednesday
Trump does the right thing by pardoning Gen. Flynn
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Given world enough and time, I believe, Flynn would have been fully exonerated
Sunday
Wines of turkey
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Some bottles to be thankful for
Thursday
Trump is right not to concede
I am happy to see that President Trump is acting on the maxim of the month: Don’t concede if you didn’t lose. Any other GOP president would be on the defensive now. ‘Yes, there was voter fraud, but, but, but…’ That dangerous conjunction is a fledging concession just waiting to spread its wings and fly.
Tuesday
Extraordinary delusions and the madness of crowds, New York Times edition
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No human organization can survive if its members are determined to push things to extremes all the time
Will the Plywood Party win?
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Most people have yet to take on board how odd this election is
The red wave is inbound
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But will it be a wave of sufficient power to swamp the deliberate fraud and litigation planned by the Democrats?
Monday
Kamala Harris vs James Madison
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She wants to replace the free market engine of prosperity with a top-down leveling of aspiration and achievement
Wednesday
Why are Trump voters more enthusiastic?
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Freddy Gray is in America for the final week of the election campaign. The polls show Joe Biden is set to win the race by a clear margin, but his supporters are nowhere to be seen. Freddy asks Roger Kimball, editor and publisher of the New Criterion, why Trump voters are more enthusiastic.
Tony Bobulinski and implausible deniability
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He is a no-nonsense, forthright guy who is angry and determined to clear his name
Friday
Trump sealed the deal last night
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He moved methodically, like a battle tank, over Biden’s incontinent expostulations
Monday
Will we ever know the truth about Russiagate?
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Every revelation, though it sheds some local light, actually makes the whole picture murkier
