Roger Kimball is a US columnist for The Spectator, the publisher of Encounter Books and the editor and publisher of the New Criterion.
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.
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No human organization can survive if its members are determined to push things to extremes all the time
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Most people have yet to take on board how odd this election is
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But will it be a wave of sufficient power to swamp the deliberate fraud and litigation planned by the Democrats?
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She wants to replace the free market engine of prosperity with a top-down leveling of aspiration and achievement
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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.
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He is a no-nonsense, forthright guy who is angry and determined to clear his name
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He moved methodically, like a battle tank, over Biden’s incontinent expostulations
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Every revelation, though it sheds some local light, actually makes the whole picture murkier
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The thing speaks for itself. Indeed, it is eloquent
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A winery is fortifying New York
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It is not surprising that Democrats prefer pleasing fantasy to sobering reality
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The left is in a paroxysm of delight over the President’s diagnosis
A couple of days ago, Paul Mirengoff observed that ‘Going back at least as far as Ronald Reagan, incumbent presidents have not done well in first debates.’ Was that true tonight? Yes and no. President Trump interrupted too often, he did not respond to Chris Wallace’s questions or Joe Biden’s assertions with the specificity that
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In recent memory, three Supreme Court nominees have been put forward and confirmed within 45 days
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The Pew Research Center offers all emotion and no evidence
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It’s hard to take Bob Woodward’s gotcha gambit seriously
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From the desk of Donald J. Trump
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On Churchill’s favorite fizz
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The Democrats own the anarchy they have unleashed and abetted
