Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address was nothing less than magnificent
His major speeches will go down as among the most eloquent and important in the nation’s history
Roger Kimball is a US columnist for The Spectator, the publisher of Encounter Books and the editor and publisher of the New Criterion.
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’
The official was ‘wrong’ to think the government could covertly rescue the world from Donald Trump
There was never anything in the great Ukrainian quid pro quo. It was props and stagecraft
Homer spoke of the ‘wine-dark sea’. He could not, but should, have had a Syrah like this in mind
The Democrats thought they could transform this tawdry revenge fantasy into reality. It isn’t working
The Democrats have decided to weaponize impeachment
The Trump campaign is a well-oiled machine, and a large part of the lubricant comes with a dollar sign attached
Do the Democrats have a death wish?
They hope that talk of impeachment will buzz about Trump’s head like a cloud of horse flies
Compare the anodyne narrative of the transcript to the mad impeachment hysteria that has addled the brains of the anti-Trump sorority in the Democratic party
Another week, another pseudo-scandal
We should call things by their real names