Is Biden’s autopen mightier than the sword?
The scandal has echoes of Hillary Clinton’s emails
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.
Thursday
Tuesday
Joe Biden’s puzzling legacy
At least since the disaster of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the unavoidable question was: who is running the US government?
Wine highlights from a weekend shooting party
The establishment which hosted boasts a stupendous list
Sunday
The DoJ is wise to deploy the False Claims Act against colleges
A new day is dawning in academia
Tuesday
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no martyr
The Dems have seized upon Garcia as a moral life jacket whose buoyancy they are counting on to save them
Beaujolais is the ideal summer wine
It is light, flowery, full of pleasing acidity and fruitiness, satisfying by itself and notably food friendly
Tuesday
Pay no heed to the misleading Trump approval ratings
The legacy media, polling themselves, get the reassuring results they crave
Monday
What the left calls ‘chaos,’ the rest of us call ‘winning’
One by one, countries line up to make a deal with the world’s largest economy
Wednesday
‘Signalgate’ is another nothingburger
A crazed press are constantly looking for another Watergate
Is Alsatian wine primarily French or German?
It is said that Alsace is the sunniest spot in all of winemaking Europe
Thursday
Give Trump’s tariffs a shot
Our current policies have landed us with a $37 trillion federal debt. That is not sustainable
Tuesday
The real problem with the Trump portrait
It’s not malicious. It’s just bad
Wednesday
Trump is working overtime to restore the rule of law
In the long term, his masculine policies will function less as a punitive expedient
Friday
Why I am confident the Champagne tariff will not last long
My glass of Pol Roger, expensive though it is now, will not be getting more expensive any time soon
Thursday
Vance Derangement Syndrome
Bret Stephens has once again demonstrated that the Hitler wheeze, though tired, still has a bit of mileage in it
The excellent wine of Mount Ventoux
Fortunately for us wine drinkers, the Benedictine monks who have been planting grapes on the slopes for centuries were not sissies
Tuesday
Trump bulldozes through joint address to Congress
The president provided a detailed inventory of his initiatives
Friday
Zelensky goes to town
He behaved like a spoiled child, talking over Trump and Vance
Thursday
Were Trump’s comments about Ukraine a gambit to bring about peace?
The president claimed that Zelensky was ‘a dictator without elections’ who started the war with Russia
Monday
Masters of corruption
Trump has not managed to cleanse Washington in one day, but his administration is working both very fast and very thoroughly
