Can the republic survive?
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The rule of law has been having a hard time of it lately
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.
Saturday
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
Wednesday
Andrew Cuomo is a deadly failure
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The New York governor is a bungler, yet he’s hailed as a hero
Thursday
Flynnocent: why the general has a long way to go before justice is served
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It’s being blared about the internet that now, finally, at last, the 30-year military veteran has got justice. Not yet he hasn’t
Friday
The shameful smearing of Michael Flynn
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Why, if the FBI had concluded that Flynn was not guilty of collusion with the Russian, were two agents sent to lure him into a perjury trap?
Wednesday
Wine is for lovers: mein Gott and yours
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I have some good advice about some things you might want to drink after you have gathered with one or two appropriate friends
Tuesday
There are lies, damned lies and epidemiological models
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What will be the fatality rate of our insane overreaction?
Sunday
Will the coronavirus succeed where Russiagate and Ukrainegate failed?
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At last, Donald Trump’s enemies may have found a winner
Tuesday
Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden is comedy gold
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A masterly performance, delivered with a straight face
Sunday
This Easter, we should moderate our complacency
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The pressure of contemporary events crowds us into the impatient confines of the present, rendering us insensible to the lessons of history
Cab and conversation
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A Healdsburg symposium