The real problem with the Trump portrait
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It’s not malicious. It’s just bad
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
Wednesday
Trump is working overtime to restore the rule of law
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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
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My glass of Pol Roger, expensive though it is now, will not be getting more expensive any time soon
Thursday
Vance Derangement Syndrome
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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
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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
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The president provided a detailed inventory of his initiatives
Friday
Zelensky goes to town
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He behaved like a spoiled child, talking over Trump and Vance
Thursday
Were Trump’s comments about Ukraine a gambit to bring about peace?
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The president claimed that Zelensky was ‘a dictator without elections’ who started the war with Russia
Monday
Masters of corruption
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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
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For us deplorables, it was a celebratory occasion
Monday
Elon Musk is right about USAID
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The organization may not be long for this world
Friday
How will Trump take on the administrative state?
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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
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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
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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
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Also — what exactly constitutes a pardon?
Sunday
Heading to DC to celebrate two zero hours
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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
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The campaign was the easy part
The master Kyè
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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
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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
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
