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
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
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
Wednesday
The midterms delivered a feeble rivulet, not a blue wave
The effort to Make America Great Again will continue, just a little more slowly and circuitously than it would have done had the Republicans held the house
Monday
The Democratic faithful are spooked
How will the blue-dyed media react if results do not go their way tomorrow night?
Tuesday
The audacity of Obama’s lying
Brazenness is key. If you’re going to lie, don’t be shy
Friday
Bombgate and the new species of political theatre
The media think the bombs will embarrass Trump and coax voters away from the GOP in the midterms, I’ll bet you a Nate Silver dollar it doesn’t.
Sunday
How the mob was made
What should we make of the erupting pustules of look-at-me violence and carefully staged disruption that are disfiguring our public life?
