The Hunter Biden pardon has silver linings
The stench of legal favoritism will cling to the Democrats for years to come
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
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
Thursday
A vindication for our polling obsession
My favorite new poll measures public reaction to a variety of contemporary issues by employing an important but hitherto neglected variable: weirdness
Monday
Democrats shouldn’t be surprised by Trump’s would-be assassins
They have been screaming for seven years that their chief political opponent is ‘Hitler’ or worse
Thursday
Facing down the Democratic legal tsunami
To say that the prosecutions are ‘dubious’ is to belittle the unsettling power of dubiety
Portuguese wines are back
The wines of Portugal have entered, or reentered, public consciousness in a stately manner
Wednesday
ABC News is the big loser of the Trump-Harris debate
The immoderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, repeatedly pecked at one candidate and not the other
Monday
The ‘real’ Kamala
What we are witnessing in this country is a slow-motion takeover of our governing institutions by a confect of neo-Marxist forces
The rebirth of Greek wine
According to experts, wine grapes have been cultivated in Greece from about 6000 BC
Friday
There is a little bit of Frank Sinatra in Donald Trump
Both insist on doing things their way
Tuesday
Don’t be fooled by Tim Walz’s blandness
He is a certifiable left-winger
Wednesday
We should be grateful that Biden is going nowhere… for now
The president will instead cling to power as long as possible
Tuesday
The Democrats do not care a whit about democracy
Fourteen million people voted for Biden in the primaries. What about their votes? Don’t be naive
