Wine highlights from Inauguration Day
For us deplorables, it was a celebratory occasion
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.
Monday
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?
Sunday
Heading to DC to celebrate two zero hours
The mists will begin to clear and sanity will start to return tomorrow at 12:01 on the clock
Thursday
Trump was elected to change the status quo
The campaign was the easy part
The master Kyè
The wine is eminently drinkable, by which I mean two people can get outside of a bottle before they can say ‘antipasto’
Thursday
The ever-Continuing Resolution
It operates by subverting legislative responsibility for the sake of pork, on the one hand, and partisan interdiction, on the other
Tuesday
Why Americans fear for Britain
From our UK edition
As an American Anglophile, I find it difficult not to look upon the news emanating from Great Britain and despair. ‘Terminally ill pensioners could end their lives earlier to spare loved ones six figure tax bills, experts have warned,’ says the Telegraph. A Christian preacher in West London has just had his conviction upheld for standing in
Monday
The Hunter Biden pardon has silver linings
The stench of legal favoritism will cling to the Democrats for years to come
Thursday
The three reasons Trump won
Kamala Harris was a horrible candidate. He, on the contrary, was superb
The secrets of Super Tuscans
What if I told you that some of the most spectacular wines in Italy were made from the Cabernets (Sauvignon and Franc) and Merlot?
Monday
Trump is Team MAGA’s last chance
This election is not just about selecting a president
Thursday
A serene Steve Bannon says his stint in the slammer was ‘empowering’
He was just released from the federal prison where he was incarcerated as a political prisoner for the last four months
Wednesday
Trump and his lawyers take on the Syndicate
He will either win outright, or he won’t, and the lawyers on both sides will have a field day
Monday
Trump calls for America’s New Golden Age at Madison Square Garden
What we saw at his Sunday rally was the opposite of divisive
Monday
Why Kamala Harris will lose
There will be no Covid to save Democrats this time. Nor will there be an ‘October surprise’ damaging enough to neutralize Trump
The objectively, subjectively, best vineyards in the world
Isn’t one’s taste in wine a classic instance of de gustibus non disputandum est? Well, yes and no