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Ever since Socrates pestered his interlocutors with questions they couldn’t answer, all the best people have told us that questions are more important than answers.
So I thought I would try a column consisting mostly of questions.
Socrates wanted to know things like “What is Virtue?” “What is knowledge?” “What is love?”
My questions are more pedestrian but no less miscellaneous.
And unlike the showstoppers Socrates proffered, they are, most of them, more easily answerable—which is not to say that we should expect the answers anytime soon.
For example, I would like to know who shot Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed vet and Trump supporter who was shot during the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
We know that it was a Capitol Hill police officer, but the authorities won’t release his name. Why?
Why was it OK for a police officer to kill an unarmed woman who posed no danger to anyone?
What if Ashli Babbitt had been a violent, drug-sodden black man who was resisting arrest instead of a white woman protesting at the Capitol?
Would we then know the name of the policeman who pulled the trigger?
As we get further from the big day, the narrative that Jan. 6 was a “riot” or an “insurrection” by “domestic terrorists” bent on destroying “our democracy” has crumbled.
Why, then, does the establishment keep beating that broken drum? Why, just a few days ago, did Joe Biden repeat the lie that Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Hill police officer who died following the Jan. 6 event, was “killed” by “criminals” at the Capitol?
That canard was circulated if not invented by The New York Times, which reported that he was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher by a crazed Trump supporter.
That story was quickly picked up and amplified by an irresponsible media driven mad by Donald Trump.
Once the damage was done, the NY Times corrected the record, sort of. But why was the original calumny seized upon and circulated by the Democrats, the FBI, and the media?
And why were hundreds of people who had participated in the Capitol jamboree arrested?
Are the anonymous people who are buying “art” from Hunter paying for access to or favors from Joe?
And speaking of money, how many millions of dollars have the Chinese invested in the Biden family, not just in Hunter’s financial schemes but in Joe Biden himself, as well as Joe’s brother?
Will the Marxist-inspired, racist teachings of Critical Race Theory be accepted by the American people?
Biden’s approval rating has plummeted by some 6 points in the aftermath of his G-7 junket. Will it continue to fall as more people learn that he’s senile and incompetent?
Iran just elected Ebrahim Raisi, aka “the Butcher,” who for 30 years has overseen the torture and murder of thousands of Iranian citizens.
Yet Biden is actively seeking to overturn Trump’s sanctions on Iran and restart the nuclear deal with the terrorist state. Will Biden allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons?
Will Joe Biden’s deepening mental twilight force him from office before his term ends in 2024?
If so, will Kamala Harris become president?
Is the United States headed off a political cliff?
Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”
