Roger Kimball is a US columnist for The Spectator, the publisher of Encounter Books and the editor and publisher of the New Criterion.
Until now, the person who won the Iowa caucus by the largest margin was Bob Dole back in 1988 – by 12 points. A ray of hope that the Nikki Haley contingent and the Ron DeSantis faction harboured was that even though Trump was likely to win, perhaps he wouldn’t win convincingly. An achievement they understood — history
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It’s game over for Ron DeSantis
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She was the perfect embodiment of ‘Harvard,’ the scare quotes indicating not so much a single institution as a state of mind
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Gay is bad for Harvard, but Harvard is bad for the country, so her continued presence is a net positive
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On the centenary of his death, it is worth pausing to remember the hideous legacy of that ice-cold totalitarian
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John Adams remarked that a few glasses made anyone feel capable of being president
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Their testimony to Congress was saturated by feminization
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We can already see the troops deployed and the battle lines drawn
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The cheerleading for Hamas on many campuses has precipitated a shattering moment of moral clarity
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It is the perfect mid-afternoon tipple: clean, light, delicate
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Most people are swayed by intangibles: by moods, sentiments, feelings
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What we’ve been told about Trump and Biden, about the other candidates for the Republican nomination and other Democratic aspirants, has mutated
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The farmer turned politician is making a splash with two new blends
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From time immemorial, Jews occupied the spot history knows as ‘Judaea.’ What happened to that?
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Israel ought to do for Hamas what Donald Trump did for ISIS, i.e., destroy it utterly
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Freddy speaks to Roger Kimball, editor of the New Criterion and columnist for The Spectator’s US edition. After Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker of the House this week, they discuss why the Republican party is such a mess.
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It will be a while before the dust settles from this (to use Karl Marx’s evocative term) ‘plastic moment’
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The Ukrainian-born Congresswoman gave a passionate, indeed an electrifying performance
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You cannot make this saga up. And you don’t have to
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There is an ambrosial quality to the wine that promises popularity
