What Charles Darwin got wrong
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High among David Stove’s antipathies was irrationality in the philosophy of science
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
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
Friday
What America should heed from Julius Caesar’s assassination
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On the Ides of March, we should wonder: to what extent does the American Republic circa 2024 live up to the ideals of limited government envisioned by the Founders?
Friday
Joe Biden and the war on truth
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The conjunction of the State of the Union with RealClear’s inaugural Samizdat gala was revelatory
Monday
The people should decide on Donald Trump, not the courts
In a big victory for democracy, but a big blow to the partisans of ‘Our Democracy™’, the Supreme Court of the United States just reversed the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court, which had determined that Donald Trump could not appear on the ballot for president in that state. A coven of anti-Trump activists, desperate to
Thursday
2024 and the invasion at the southern border
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The destruction of the country for the sake of temporary partisan advantage seems a high price to pay
Truffle shuffle
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Some enterprising chaps organized a dinner revolving around the delectable fungus and one of the very best wines from St. Émilion
Wednesday
Republicans show their fecklessness with Mayorkas
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At some point between the Nixon administration and Donald Trump’s first administration, impeachment went to drama school
Thursday
The Justice Department won’t prosecute Biden? Color me shocked
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Don’t we have trials precisely to establish the guilt or innocence of a defendant?
Saturday
Biden’s action in Iraq and Syria is merely delayed reaction
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He doesn’t do, he dithers
Tuesday
The course of the American empire
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Instead of frank acknowledgment and robust action, Biden and his minders have retreated into Stalinist Newspeak
A Champagne winter
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I write at the absolute nadir of daylight
Saturday
Fani Willis’s romance keeps the ‘Get Trump’ efforts entertaining
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She hired her boyfriend, Nathan Wade, as chief prosecutor to go after Trump
