On Summer Solstice and the passage of time
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Today is one second shorter than yesterday
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.
Friday
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
Tuesday
What Charles Darwin got wrong
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High among David Stove’s antipathies was irrationality in the philosophy of science
Friday
Why the Establishment hates Donald Trump
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Is it not, as Tacitus suggests, human nature to hate someone whom you have so conspicuously harmed?
Saturday
Uncharted territory in court and on campus
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The current of viciousness and unthinking sloganeering, so at odds with the stated purpose of these pampered institutions, is breathtaking
Saturday
At Columbia… that’s all, folx!
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There is an epidemic of distaff leadership in the elite precincts of higher education
Tuesday
The Trump trial is a precursor to how a republic ends
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Not with a bang, but a perversion of the law
The rise of reverse gaslighting
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The deep, the unavoidable, question is where this train of insanity ends
The blessing of a good wine shop
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There is a world of wine out there
Sunday
Kangaroo courts and bills of attainder
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The Biden administration and its surrogates are desperately trying to derail Trump’s candidacy by subjecting him to wholesale political prosecution
A French symposium
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Just as night watchmen are constrained by duty to make their rounds, so are writers about wine