The GOP’s ‘Great American Story’ will play well at the ballot box
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The Republicans kicked things off in a spirit of affirmation and hope
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.
Tuesday
Wednesday
For the Democrats’ sake, I hope the DNC viewership is low
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Organizing a virtual event is a challenge, not to say an exercise in surrealistic self-expression
Tuesday
President Kamala, mistress of puppets?
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Not so fast
Thursday
Hidin’ Biden’s basement convention
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The former VP oscillates between alarming porousness and inexplicable hostility
Tuesday
A rosé by any other name
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Lynch, Lulu and the love of Bandol
Wednesday
The bewildering bombardment of Bill Barr
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His would-be inquisitors in the Democratic party have succumbed to a virus far more toxic than the Wuhan flu
Monday
The lunacy of the ‘largely peaceful protest’
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The media says one thing while also saying the opposite
Monday
The weaponization of whining
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A crack in The Narrative? A glimmer of sanity? Maybe. Well, not really
Friday
Trump has been right about China for years
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More and more people are awakening to the minatory reality that is China
Saturday
Can the republic survive?
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The rule of law has been having a hard time of it lately
Born Toulouse: varietals, vermouth and verse
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Pinot Noir ‘should be approached like a beautiful woman — with respect, some knowledge, and great hopes’
Sunday
Is this the end of history?
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George Floyd was a pretext, not a cause. The cause was destruction of our civilization
Monday
Teddy Roosevelt saw this mob coming
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Who is immune from retrospective condemnation?
Friday
Thank goodness for Hillsdale College
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At least one institution is standing firm against the mob of kneelers and capitulators and sentimentalizers
Sunday
Christo’s art of self-promotion
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The late artist and his wife spent years assiduously burnishing his image
Friday
Cellar’s market
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What bubbles up must go down
Wednesday
How to destroy civilization
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Thanks to tenured radicals, we are witnessing the retribalization of the world
Monday
There is no justice in looting
‘Never deny, seldom affirm, always distinguish.’ We should dust off that old Jesuit adage in this season of American rioting. It may not be quite as mellifluous as ‘persistent perversity provokes the patient pedagogue to produce particularly painful punishment’, but it does suit the case. The death in Minneapolis of George Floyd at the hands
Wednesday
In praise of Kayleigh McEnany
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She’s a patient but no-nonsense camp counselor in charge of the problem kids
Tuesday
How are the public meant to trust the rule of law?
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A ‘single and proper standard of justice’ has not been scrupulously, or even half-heartedly, applied to the Trump-Russia story
