Biden ushers in more uncertainty by stepping aside
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Here we have a party that really is preparing to disenfranchise voters
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.
Sunday
Friday
A more reflective Trump will win in November
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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
Thursday
The Supreme Court on not standing for standing
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In Murthy v. Missouri , the justices were afraid of issuing a ruling unpopular with the regime and its media
Outdoor wines for the summer
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We don’t do drink and appreciate wine for any practical advantage. We do it for its own sake
Tuesday
Hit the road, Jack
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‘I’m melting, I’m melting!’ you can almost hear Jack Smith cry
Sunday
Who’s the real threat to democracy?
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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
Monday
Despite defeat, Le Pen’s party has made steady progress
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This election is very bad news for the country formerly known as France
Wednesday
The United States cannot afford a 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. president
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The rats are cornered and can be expected to be as vicious as they are unscrupulous
Tuesday
What the Supreme Court immunity ruling means for Donald Trump
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
Friday
On Summer Solstice and the passage of time
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Today is one second shorter than yesterday
Monday
‘Justice’ and the fall of a republic
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The United States was built on the ideal of equality before the law. The very words now ring with a mournful quaintness
The secrets of South African wine
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The country makes wines that are not only great bargains, but also are delicious in their own right
Saturday
The Joe Biden Shuffle defines the G7
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Giorgia Meloni espied POTUS wandering off like a bemused toddler
Thursday
If the West is to stay the same, a lot will have to change
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Plenty of historical situations in which fundamental assumptions about society are disrupted can be restored only by something like revolution
Thursday
Trump found guilty in America’s first-ever Stalinist trial
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The prestige of American justice has suffered a serious attack of scrofula
Monday
This Memorial Day, reflect on your freedom
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Thoughts on Normandy and D-Day
Friday
Trump’s bumper Bronx rally is a bad omen for Biden
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He promised to return to New York and sort out the anarchy
Tuesday
The Biden administration’s race-based tax plan is disgusting
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It is a malevolent effort to destroy middle-class prosperity by brandishing race
Wednesday
The cunning of the Democrats’ lawfare
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Hercules had to undertake twelve supposedly impossible labors. Donald Trump is fast catching up
The thoroughly underrated Pessac-Léognan
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What makes the relative neglect regrettable as well as odd is the high quality of the wines from the region