The case for reopening the country now
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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.
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Public health experts are well and good in their place. Their place is not running the country
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They are exploiting a national emergency for the grubbiest of partisan motives
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Moral intoxication, like the physical variety, is regularly followed by a hangover
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The Wuhan Panic is a textbook case of the Rahm Emanuel principle that you never want a good crisis to go to waste
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Biden’s many errors are tokens of serious mental incapacity
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We tasted six or seven maturing wines straight from the barrel. It was a little like watching some young ballerinas
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Especially if Biden ends up picking Hillary as his running mate
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Sleepy Joe gets a bagful of puppy treats and a new collar
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His critics are desperate for him to mishandle a crisis. So far he hasn’t
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Wine may have been born in Virginia, but it matured elsewhere
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You may as well start on his political obituary once you’ve finished with Joe Biden’s
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His major speeches will go down as among the most eloquent and important in the nation’s history
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The elitist narrative about Donald Trump has begun a process of mutation
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Cheerfulness is better than pouting
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There is nothing new in the plot of this lugubrious sitcom
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President Trump’s opponents cannot forgive him his victories. But it has become increasingly clear that it doesn’t matter
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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
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It’s amazing what semantic potency can reside in a pair of quotation marks
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
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Somebody needs to say to Schiff and Nadler: ‘You’re fired’