Roger Kimball

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

Who will win this game of chicken? Unless Trump builds the wall, he loses

Will journalists apologize if their portrayal of the Covington students vs Indian Elder incident turns out to have been wildly wrong?

The president not only ate a bunch of burgers, he just ate the Left’s lunch, again

A country without borders is not a country

The Utah senator-elect thinks that Donald Trump has not risen to the ‘mantle of the office’

Mattis’s petulant resignation fits a pattern

Why 2019 will be a year of consolidation

Since the beginning, it’s been an investigation in search of a crime rather than an investigation of a suspected crime

Despite what Beto thinks, the United States doesn’t have an obligation to every distressed mother with a four-month-old

I have at times wondered whether Jim Acosta pays the president a retainer for making him such a recognizable figure

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

How will the blue-dyed media react if results do not go their way tomorrow night?

Brazenness is key. If you’re going to lie, don’t be shy

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.

What should we make of the erupting pustules of look-at-me violence and carefully staged disruption that are disfiguring our public life?