Roger Kimball

What America should heed from Julius Caesar’s assassination

16 March 2024 1:43 am

It being the Ides of March, I thought it might be worth reflecting briefly on the most famous event that…

Joe Biden and the war on truth

9 March 2024 8:24 am

I had been told that Joe Biden, the president of the United States, would be delivering the 2024 State of…

The people should decide on Donald Trump, not the courts

5 March 2024 4:54 am

In a big victory for democracy, but a big blow to the partisans of ‘Our Democracy™’, the Supreme Court of…

2024 and the invasion at the southern border

16 February 2024 8:35 am

Donald Trump crushed the New Hampshire primary, as every poll in Alpha Centauri predicted he would. Nevertheless, his sole remaining…

Republicans show their fecklessness with Mayorkas

15 February 2024 7:02 am

What is decadence? In popular usage, it is synonymous with “excess,” especially of a sensual or appetitive nature. I am…

The course of the American empire

19 January 2024 5:38 am

In the 1830s, the English-born American artist Thomas Cole painted an ambitious sequence of five large rectangular canvases delineating “The…

Trump’s big Iowa win spells the end for Ron DeSantis

16 January 2024 5:16 pm

Until now, the person who won the Iowa caucus by the largest margin was Bob Dole back in 1988 –…

Trump trounces everyone in Iowa

16 January 2024 1:14 pm

Numbers are mysterious things. According to orthodox Roman Catholicism, there are instances in which 3 = 1. You might get…

Claudine Gay was bad for Harvard, but Harvard is bad for the country

4 January 2024 2:20 am

I advise you to have a bottle of Dramamine on hand before reading Claudine Gay’s nauseating missive announcing her resignation as president…

When will Harvard give Claudine Gay the boot?

30 December 2023 4:06 am

You are probably almost as sick of hearing about Claudine Gay — as of this writing, still the president of…

The looming Lenin comeback

20 December 2023 1:10 am

The year 2024 marks the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. In April of that year, the consummate communist, having blighted…

The disgraceful, ducking, diving, dodging college presidents

8 December 2023 5:41 am

It was a clarifying moment, wasn’t it? The presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania testifying for the House…

Vivek is right: America is devolving into tyranny

4 December 2023 11:57 pm

Many commentators (including yours truly) have pointed out that America is divided more now than it has been since the late…

Hamas and retaking higher education

20 November 2023 3:05 pm

Maybe there is something for which we have to thank Hamas after all. That savage terror group epitomizes the latest…

The changing season brings a change in politics

21 October 2023 6:50 am

If you are paying attention, you know that nature is full of inklings and adumbrations. I am writing in New…

What hath Matt Gaetz wrought by tipping over the House apple cart?

5 October 2023 12:23 am

What’s worse than chaos? How about a power vacuum? All the beautiful people are bewailing the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as speaker…

Why dry Sauternes are the next big thing

22 September 2023 8:54 pm

It is my sense that the popularity of sweet wines like Sauternes, Port, Tokaji and all the German Auslese wines…

Joe Biden has become a global embarrassment

12 September 2023 4:39 pm

What time is it? A bit like the emperor Domitian, Joe Biden seems confused about the time. Warned by an omen…

It’s always Chablis weather

1 September 2023 6:25 am

It is very hot here in New England at the end of July. It was hot a week or two…

Has America lapsed into a gerontocracy?

31 August 2023 4:04 am

Although I write at high summer, by the time you read this another school year will be upon us. I…

Trump’s interview blows the Republican debate away

24 August 2023 5:49 pm

One of the reasons that Donald Trump is so despised by the beautiful people of America – the people that…

David Bruce, a doctor in the vines

29 July 2023 2:24 am

Every good vintner deserves a good origin story. David Bruce, the founder of the eponymous winery in the Santa Cruz…

Operation Get Trump

25 July 2023 4:09 am

Humankind, said T.S. Eliot, cannot bear very much reality. A case in point was the chyron that Fox News posted…

Will Chuck Grassley’s Burisma bombshell finally get the Bidens fired?

22 July 2023 5:06 am

A famous clip from recent history: “I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the…

The known unknowns of 2024

23 June 2023 6:00 pm

I think it was the once-renowned critic Clement Greenberg who gratefully acknowledged that his job as a cultural commentator allowed…