Pay no heed to the misleading Trump approval ratings
The legacy media, polling themselves, get the reassuring results they crave
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
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
Wine highlights from Inauguration Day
For us deplorables, it was a celebratory occasion
Monday
Elon Musk is right about USAID
The organization may not be long for this world
Friday
How will Trump take on the administrative state?
It behooves us to acknowledge the extent to which America is at a fork in the road of its political fortunes
The best winter wines
Probably the fanciest wine I had over the holiday season was a 2021 Échezeaux Grand Cru from Marchand-Tawse
Wednesday
Trump is not fooling this time
The country is in the grip of the Trump common-sense vortex
Tuesday
Trump’s speech was one of the most rousing and substantive in American history
Also — what exactly constitutes a pardon?
