Christo’s art of self-promotion
From our US edition
The late artist and his wife spent years assiduously burnishing his image
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.
Sunday
Friday
Cellar’s market
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What bubbles up must go down
Wednesday
How to destroy civilization
From our US edition
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
From our US edition
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
From our US edition
What will be the fatality rate of our insane overreaction?
Sunday
Will the coronavirus succeed where Russiagate and Ukrainegate failed?
From our US edition
At last, Donald Trump’s enemies may have found a winner
Tuesday
Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden is comedy gold
From our US edition
A masterly performance, delivered with a straight face
Sunday
This Easter, we should moderate our complacency
From our US edition
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
Thursday
The case for reopening the country now
From our US edition
Public health experts are well and good in their place. Their place is not running the country
Monday
The Democrats just made a huge mistake
From our US edition
They are exploiting a national emergency for the grubbiest of partisan motives
Tuesday
Panic among the pigeons
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Moral intoxication, like the physical variety, is regularly followed by a hangover
Thursday
COVID-19 is terrifying — as a weapon of political propaganda
From our US edition
The Wuhan Panic is a textbook case of the Rahm Emanuel principle that you never want a good crisis to go to waste
Tuesday
Time to scrap the Goldwater Rule
From our US edition
Biden’s many errors are tokens of serious mental incapacity
