Roger Kimball

I suspect that the effort to weaponize the word ‘felon’ (or ‘convicted felon’) is going to have a hard time getting traction.

Some modern artists pretend to be “challenging” or “transgressing” conventional boundaries, but all such boundaries were long ago erased.

To the extent that we see ourselves as moral creatures—whose lives are bounded by an ideal of freedom—utilitarianism presents itself as a version of nihilism.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that a book containing instructions on how to make catapults was published today, the high noon of nannydom.

Culture is a precious inheritance, immeasurably more difficult to achieve than to destroy, and, once destroyed, almost irretrievable.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has never been anything but clear in its aims. ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel.’

In a recent article for The Hill, David Cameron explained what his country cousins must do to appear civilized in the sophisticated courts of Europe.

I have been thinking about optics lately. For example, what were the optics of Joe Biden’s fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York last week?

A constitution is a guarantor of the general welfare only so long as its provisions are publicly acknowledged and adhered to.

I suspect that the effort to weaponize the word ‘felon’ (or ‘convicted felon’) is going to have a hard time getting traction.

Some modern artists pretend to be “challenging” or “transgressing” conventional boundaries, but all such boundaries were long ago erased.

To the extent that we see ourselves as moral creatures—whose lives are bounded by an ideal of freedom—utilitarianism presents itself as a version of nihilism.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that a book containing instructions on how to make catapults was published today, the high noon of nannydom.

Culture is a precious inheritance, immeasurably more difficult to achieve than to destroy, and, once destroyed, almost irretrievable.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has never been anything but clear in its aims. ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel.’

In a recent article for The Hill, David Cameron explained what his country cousins must do to appear civilized in the sophisticated courts of Europe.

I have been thinking about optics lately. For example, what were the optics of Joe Biden’s fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York last week?

A constitution is a guarantor of the general welfare only so long as its provisions are publicly acknowledged and adhered to.