Jerry Nadler’s frantic quest to ‘Get Trump’
The House Judiciary chairman is prepping for Mueller disappointment. Sadly for him, Americans aren’t tired of winning
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.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Michael Cohen’s testimony is as repulsive as it is incredible
His oily opening statement is a tissue of pointless allegations and breathless insinuations
Friday
Jussie Smollett, and the strange alchemy of egalitarian despotism
The less hate there is in the United States, the more hate crimes must be manufactured in order to keep the Fraternal Order of Victims afloat
Monday
Will history survive?
The ongoing monument controversy shows the susceptibility of ‘liberating tolerance’ to fanaticism
Friday
The deep blob
Beware the suffocating metastasis of the administrative state
Tuesday
Donald Trump chooses greatness — and so should we
SOTU 2019 had a fuller agenda of things to be done and a more circumspect and humble offer to the other side of the aisle
Tuesday
EXCLUSIVE: A sneak preview of Jim Acosta’s new book
Ghostwritten by Roger Kimball
Friday
Roger Stone, Robert Mueller and the Shutdown Samba
Who will win this game of chicken? Unless Trump builds the wall, he loses
Sunday
Radical evil, and the online lynching of a kid from Kentucky
Will journalists apologize if their portrayal of the Covington students vs Indian Elder incident turns out to have been wildly wrong?
Wednesday
Trump’s burger fête was a masterpiece
The president not only ate a bunch of burgers, he just ate the Left’s lunch, again
Tuesday
Those who think Trump will cave on the wall are wrong
A country without borders is not a country
Thursday
The pathetic crusade of Mitt Romney
The Utah senator-elect thinks that Donald Trump has not risen to the ‘mantle of the office’
Friday
The Prague delusion
The Central European city is the last stop for the resistance fantasy
Friday
The ‘adults’ in the Trump administration are surprisingly childish
Mattis’s petulant resignation fits a pattern
Monday
Donald Trump and the art of the bipartisan deal
Why 2019 will be a year of consolidation
Wednesday
Andrew Sullivan’s false gods
The revered writer uses pulpit tones in the service of inquisition
Wednesday
What was the real point of the Mueller investigation?
Since the beginning, it’s been an investigation in search of a crime rather than an investigation of a suspected crime
Tuesday
If you don’t believe in borders, should you be deciding US immigration policy?
Despite what Beto thinks, the United States doesn’t have an obligation to every distressed mother with a four-month-old
Tuesday
The joy of being right at Thanksgiving
I go to some trouble to make sure that Thanksgiving chez Kimball is an occasion that encourages the feeling of gratitude
Thursday
Jim Acosta: the Don Quixote of fake news
I have at times wondered whether Jim Acosta pays the president a retainer for making him such a recognizable figure
