The case for reopening the country now
Public health experts are well and good in their place. Their place is not running the country
Roger Kimball is a US columnist for The Spectator, the publisher of Encounter Books and the editor and publisher of the New Criterion.
Public health experts are well and good in their place. Their place is not running the country
They are exploiting a national emergency for the grubbiest of partisan motives
Moral intoxication, like the physical variety, is regularly followed by a hangover
The Wuhan Panic is a textbook case of the Rahm Emanuel principle that you never want a good crisis to go to waste
Biden’s many errors are tokens of serious mental incapacity
We tasted six or seven maturing wines straight from the barrel. It was a little like watching some young ballerinas
Especially if Biden ends up picking Hillary as his running mate
Sleepy Joe gets a bagful of puppy treats and a new collar
His critics are desperate for him to mishandle a crisis. So far he hasn’t
Wine may have been born in Virginia, but it matured elsewhere
You may as well start on his political obituary once you’ve finished with Joe Biden’s
His major speeches will go down as among the most eloquent and important in the nation’s history
The elitist narrative about Donald Trump has begun a process of mutation
Cheerfulness is better than pouting
There is nothing new in the plot of this lugubrious sitcom
President Trump’s opponents cannot forgive him his victories. But it has become increasingly clear that it doesn’t matter
The modern pollster tends to be in love with his model. Hence his predictions tend to confirm the model rather than pull back the curtain on other contingencies
It’s amazing what semantic potency can reside in a pair of quotation marks
From our UK edition
I am so glad that Nancy Pelosi has finally come to her senses and declared — on the floor of the House no less — that impeachment is ‘a hatchet job on the presidency’. Yes, that’s right. The House, said Pelosi, is ‘not judging the president with fairness, but impeaching him with a vengeance’. Nicely
Somebody needs to say to Schiff and Nadler: ‘You’re fired’