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Roger Kimball

Roger Kimball

Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of the The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia.”

Double Standards on View in Outrage at Stone Commutation

Commentary A few thoughts on the adage that “if it weren’t for double standards, they would have no ...

Viewpoints July 12, 2020
Trump Delivers a Magnificent Speech, The Narrative Wants to Shout It Down

Commentary There are the facts. Then there is The Narrative. The two are often in tension. Can the ...

Viewpoints July 5, 2020
The Purity Spiral Turns, as Courage Goes Missing

Commentary The journalist Gavin Haynes has a great phrase for a familiar and disturbing phenomenon: the purity spiral. ...

Viewpoints June 28, 2020
Trump’s ‘Silent Majority’ Needs to Speak Up, Defend America

Commentary President Donald Trump began his rally in Tulsa on June 20 by saying that “the silent majority ...

Viewpoints June 21, 2020
An Overdraft on White Guilt Will Lead to Landslide in November

Commentary Is there a new “silent majority” on the rise? Such a majority, Richard Nixon said in 1969 ...

Viewpoints June 14, 2020
Adventures in Self-Abasement and Ideological Conformity

Commentary Where’s Mao Zedong when you need him? The Great Helmsman had a highly developed taste for humilating ...

Viewpoints June 7, 2020
Those Burning Our Cities Aim to Destroy Our Civilization

Commentary The first thing to understand about the destructive mob riots sweeping the country is that they aren't ...

Viewpoints May 31, 2020
From Joe Biden to Our Hope for Finding a Common Humanity in Art

Commentary Philosophy is littered with questions that are easily stated but difficult to answer. Joe Biden presented us ...

Viewpoints May 25, 2020
With Pandemic, Societal Hallucination Yields Real Misery

Commentary Just a few more thoughts about the CCP virus, aka the Wuhan flu or (for people who ...

Viewpoints May 17, 2020
Flynn Revelations May Lead to Disillusionment With Deep State, Not Retribution

Commentary Sir Walter Scott made a sound observation in his poem, "Marmion," when he said, “Oh what a ...

Viewpoints May 10, 2020
We ‘Stay Safe’ and Dissolve Our Firmer Virtues

Commentary “Stay safe” is the emetic phrase of the moment, the treacly talisman of trite wokeness. No communication ...

Viewpoints May 4, 2020
Voters Beware: Tara Reade Reveals the Shameful and the Shameless

Commentary It is one of the curiosities of the English language that the words “shameful” and “shameless” are ...

Viewpoints April 27, 2020
Lockdown Theater Brings Hoopla and Amateur Epidemiologists

Commentary I know that a lot of people are eagerly awaiting the roll-out of the new Netflix compilation ...

AMERICA April 19, 2020
Science Forces Mankind to Grapple With Technophobia Versus Technophilia

Commentary In 2003, Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University “successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs.” ...

Viewpoints April 12, 2020
Innovation’s Appeal and Reason’s Limits on View in ‘On Liberty’

Commentary I forgot to make any resolutions over New Year’s. I have been feeling badly about that. So ...

Viewpoints April 6, 2020
Coming to Understand Altruism in a Time of Anxiety

Commentary In this moment of panic, when the acrid aroma of moral self-infatuation is wafting through the air, ...

Viewpoints March 29, 2020
The Passing of Time During the Pandemic Confinement

Commentary I live in a fairly close-knit neighborhood of about 100 houses. While we are friendly with one ...

Viewpoints March 22, 2020
Whether the Wuhan Virus Is a ‘Crisis’ or a Crisis

Commentary Some entertainment, and a prediction. Unlike the oboe, which some describe as “an ill wind, which nobody ...

Viewpoints March 15, 2020
Partisan Judge Strikes at William Barr, Aims at Trump

Commentary Reggie Walton is a name you should know. An old pal of Eric Holder—Obama’s attorney general and ...

Viewpoints March 9, 2020
Neither Bernie, Nor Biden, Nor Bloomberg Will Stop Trump’s Winning

Commentary I'm glad Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary so decisively. Judging by the vacant but enthusiastic ...

Viewpoints March 1, 2020
Media Serves Up Comedy in Effort to Get Trump

Commentary I don’t believe that President Donald Trump has ever deployed the Twitteresque acronym “ROFLMAO” (rolling on the ...

Viewpoints February 23, 2020
Bloomberg’s Bucks Won’t Protect Him From Nasty Battle for Nomination

Commentary I was sorry to get the news that Mike Bloomberg (D.,R.,I.,D.-N.Y.) is apparently not considering tapping Hillary ...

Viewpoints February 16, 2020

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