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Enough With Half Measures, Throw All U.S. Code at Trump

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July 30, 2023

If we are really going to achieve full banana republic status before the next election, it is essential that the chief political rival of the Democrats be publicly reviled and jailed.

Fox News’ Conservative Stance Belies Hidden Liberal Agenda

By Roger Kimball

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July 23, 2023

The longshoreman turned homespun philosopher Eric Hoffer is semi-forgotten today. But his book The True Believer (1951) is full of pertinent aperçus. One that has […]

‘Not My Concern” Narrows the GOP Field

By Roger Kimball

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July 16, 2023

Who won the Republican blow-out interview lalapalooza with Tucker Carlson in Iowa Friday night? Besides Tucker himself—who was on the Q side of this extended Q & […]

Poetic Justice for the Biden ‘Ministry of Truth’

By Roger Kimball

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July 9, 2023

At some point in this column, I have probably had occasion to quote these famous lines from Walter Scott’s poem “Marmion”: “Oh, what a tangled […]

Biden Bribery Wheeze is like the Russia Collusion Delusion

By Roger Kimball

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July 2, 2023

Like many of my acquaintances, I feel alternately despondent and outraged by the unfolding story of the Bidens’ Excellent Bribery Adventure. The despondency comes […]

A Catastrophic Implosion . . . of the Rule of Law

By Roger Kimball

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June 25, 2023

Instead of proper rule of law we are living with that Orwellian alternative, Our Rule of Law™—an arbitrary enforcement of the laws and use of the coercive power of the state.

Tearing Apart the Governing Consensus

By Roger Kimball

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June 18, 2023

A victory for the administrative state in the war on Donald Trump won’t be a victory for the rule of law.

Can Trump Clean The Augean Stables on the Potomac?

By Roger Kimball

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June 10, 2023

Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is as corrupt as Hunter Biden’s laptop. Few people of either party trust it, nor should they.

A History of Hate

By Roger Kimball

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June 4, 2023

The New York Review of Books joins the chorus of America haters deliberately distorting American history and all those who work to actually understand it.

The Politics of Inertia

By Roger Kimball

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May 28, 2023

The blind trajectory set by Joe Biden’s autopilot just barreled on through, unhindered.

Abandon the Swamp

By Roger Kimball

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May 21, 2023

The only hope for the republic is to downgrade the place of Washington in our public life. The business of Washington is to make government bigger—forever. That is not
what the people want.

Deliver Us from Reality

By Roger Kimball

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May 14, 2023

The only silver lining in this minatory storm cloud is the fact that such movements, though unconscionably cruel, arbitrary, and destructive, are also astonishingly fragile.

An American’s View of the Coronation

By Roger Kimball

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May 6, 2023

If the pageantry surrounding Charles III seemed quaintly anachronistic, it was also moving in an irreducibly pertinent way.

The Mexicanization of American Politics

By Roger Kimball

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April 29, 2023

Our public life today is a seething cauldron of animosities.

The Garland, Blinken, and Morell Morass

By Roger Kimball

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April 23, 2023

It is possible that both Garland and Blinken will have to answer for their alleged malfeasance. Both might easily be impeached and forced from office.

We Can’t Have Nice Things

By Roger Kimball

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April 16, 2023

Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into
a caricature of itself.

Then and Now

By Roger Kimball

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April 9, 2023

This is Easter, a holiday commemorating a miracle.
That is good, because we are going to need one.

Banana Time for the Rule of Law

By Roger Kimball

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April 2, 2023

When agents of the deep state hector you about
“the rule of law,” laugh in their faces.

Who Says That Chance Rules in the Affairs of Men?

By Roger Kimball

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March 26, 2023

Our foresight is always an adventure, practiced at the pleasure of the unpredictable.

Donald Trump, Regime Foe

By Roger Kimball

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March 20, 2023

We don’t acknowledge that we promulgate bills of attainder in this country, but that is essentially the judgment that has been pronounced against the former president.