Roger Kimball is a US columnist for The Spectator, the publisher of Encounter Books and the editor and publisher of the New Criterion.
President’s Trump’s magnificent speech at the UN yesterday will have had special resonance for anyone supporting the cause of Brexit. Brexit is not primarily about the UK leaving the European Union. It is rather about the reassertion of British sovereignty. It is only because of the EU’s childishness that British sovereignty must entail a severing
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Is there nothing Senate Democrats won’t stoop to?
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They tried the same thing when they wheeled out Anita Hill during the hearings on Clarence Thomas
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Mueller’s activities are meant primarily to intimidate, pressure, and co-opt associates of Donald Trump in order to convince them to bear witness against him
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The New York Times’s op-ed confirms everything the President has said about his enemies.
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In years to come, no one is going to talk about ‘kavanaughing’ a candidate
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Try reading what they wrote about him in 2008, when he represented a threat to Democratic hegemony
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The Cohen and Manafort trials haven’t really changed anything for the man in charge
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Words are wonderful things — it’s sad to see how the Gray Lady twists them.
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He is a leader utterly unlike his predecessors — and we’re all better for it.
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The Democrats are officially “For the People.” Reagan would have advised we run screaming.
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His fiery interview with The Sun makes clear he is not on board with Theresa May’s flaccid plans.
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He’s committed to upholding the law and has meticulously reasoned opinions.
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Don’t we want the President to enforce the laws of the land?
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The director recognises Trump’s startling originality and willingness to look beyond the taken-for-granted modus operandi of the Washington Establishment.
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While the Anti-Trump Mandarins of the Commentariat (ATMC, for short) are busy untwisting their knickers after the President’s historic summit meeting with the Tubby Tyrant of North Korea, I have an important real-estate tip to pass along: beach-front property in North Korea. Keep your eye on it. As Trump said yesterday in his wide-ranging press … Read more
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If your pet conspiracy turns out to be real, as sometimes does happen, then you are no longer a ‘conspiracy theorist.’
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Of course her tweet was in bad taste. So what?
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How highly placed members of one administration mobilised the intelligence services to undermine their successors.
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The only time I met Donald Trump was at a small event for politically mature journalists at the White House last April. After milling about with my fellow scribes in the press room—it’s a lot smaller and shabbier than it looks on TV, like Jim Acosta—we were ushered into the Roosevelt Room near the Oval … Read more
