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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As a mighty US armada bobs in the Caribbean off the shores of Venezuela, President Trump just addressed the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House. With characteristic delicacy and understatement, he outlined the accomplishments of the first 11 months of his second term in office, lightly criticized his predecessor and cautiously opined
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In his History of the Franks, Gregory of Tours (c. 539-594) wrote one of my favorite opening sentences: “A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad.” Who can disagree? Gregory’s works are full of interesting morsels. Writing about the miracles of St. Julian, for example, he notes that a
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If I were a bookie, I would be making odds now about when the European Union will finally unravel and die. Unless there is an imminent and drastic course correction, the blessed event cannot be far off. I might need a Doomsday Clock akin to the one publicized by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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In case after case, judges ruled to stymie the executive branch for one main reason
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Our evening’s wine consumption had hidden interconnections
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The GOP old guard is piggy-backing on the campaign against anti-Semitism to undermine the President’s agenda
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The previous election was rife with anomalies
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Galileo said that wine is sunlight caught in water. Egly makes the sunlight sparkle
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The President’s vigorous effort to call to account those who waged lawfare against him is a necessary purgative
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Does the President have the authority to hire and fire his agents and underlings? The Constitution says yes
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The winery’s most distinctive wines are blends of Portuguese grapes grown in the Paso Robles hills and the valleys beneath
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The disabused lineaments of common sense are everywhere taking shape again
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Socialism, which promises a more humane, caring, and equitable society, has always delivered a bloodier and more oppressive one
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The President has to be one of the most punished people in American history
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Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold (and red), / And many goodly bottles drunk
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He is one of a new breed of politically mature populist leaders. If he represents the future, then the future will be bright
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Trump is giving Americans back their cultural and educational institutions
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Perhaps the President had thought he had gotten rid of the NED already, but that essential piece of work is but half done
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She is a former Black Panther and two-time vice-presidential candidate who was prosecuted as a material accessory to murder
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We are invited to deplore his strong actions on the border. But the overwhelming response is “This is what I voted for”