A vindication for our polling obsession
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My favorite new poll measures public reaction to a variety of contemporary issues by employing an important but hitherto neglected variable: weirdness
Roger Kimball is a US columnist for The Spectator, the publisher of Encounter Books and the editor and publisher of the New Criterion.
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My favorite new poll measures public reaction to a variety of contemporary issues by employing an important but hitherto neglected variable: weirdness
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They have been screaming for seven years that their chief political opponent is ‘Hitler’ or worse
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To say that the prosecutions are ‘dubious’ is to belittle the unsettling power of dubiety
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The wines of Portugal have entered, or reentered, public consciousness in a stately manner
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The immoderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, repeatedly pecked at one candidate and not the other
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What we are witnessing in this country is a slow-motion takeover of our governing institutions by a confect of neo-Marxist forces
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According to experts, wine grapes have been cultivated in Greece from about 6000 BC
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Both insist on doing things their way
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He is a certifiable left-winger
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The president will instead cling to power as long as possible
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Fourteen million people voted for Biden in the primaries. What about their votes? Don’t be naive
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Here we have a party that really is preparing to disenfranchise voters
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His convention remarks were edged with a solemness and humility that have not been prominent parts of the Trump rhetorical armory
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In Murthy v. Missouri , the justices were afraid of issuing a ruling unpopular with the regime and its media
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We don’t do drink and appreciate wine for any practical advantage. We do it for its own sake
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‘I’m melting, I’m melting!’ you can almost hear Jack Smith cry
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I can help those claiming to be in the dark about the shooter’s motive. His motive was to kill Donald Trump
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This election is very bad news for the country formerly known as France
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The rats are cornered and can be expected to be as vicious as they are unscrupulous
Yesterday, reviewing last week’s Supreme Court decisions, I noted that the court would probably issue its final opinion of the season, on the question of presidential immunity. So it turned out to be. Yesterday, ‘Trump v. United States’ dropped. For the first time, the Court pondered the question, ‘Does a president have immunity from prosecution?’ or, to use the language of the