Roger Kimball

The unraveling of Joe Biden: a retrospective

2 March 2023 2:26 pm

Looking back on the classified docudrama that brought down the Biden administration, it is still not easy to identify the exact…

How will the GOP survive without Paul Ryan?!

27 February 2023 3:10 am

Psychologists and self-help gurus agree: it’s the little things that bring a smile to one’s lips and impart savor to…

Stepping out into freedom

27 January 2023 2:21 pm

Given the fire-hose disgorgement of revelations about the behavior of the FBI, the CIA and their infiltration of the mainstream media,…

It’s different when Biden gets caught with classified docs

11 January 2023 7:45 am

So where are the FBI SWAT teams? Will they be raiding Joe Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center…

Why globalism is the enemy of freedom

30 December 2022 12:43 am

I was recently asked to say a few words about “Globalism and Freedom” at a conference sponsored by Hillsdale College in…

The Deep State vs Donald Trump saga is not over

21 December 2022 1:24 am

As I have said before, I hope that the new Congress, which begins its session in just a couple of…

The Republican march on Rome

19 November 2022 1:48 am

Perhaps the greatest defeat the Roman Republic ever suffered was at the hands of Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae…

How did I get the midterms so wrong?

10 November 2022 3:06 am

How wrong can you be? About as wrong as I was about the character of the midterm elections. I thought…

The FBI will face a reckoning after the midterms

7 November 2022 2:08 am

It is said that towards the end his life as he sank into dementia, Maurice Ravel was tormented by the…

How the midterm polls became Democratic fan fiction

25 October 2022 1:45 pm

Psephologists of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your fibs! I write toward the end of September,…

A history lesson for Donald Trump

16 October 2022 6:48 am

I take a page from history. On Thursday, the Committee (you know which one) voted 9-0 to subpoena the former…

Biden declares war on half the country

3 September 2022 1:29 pm

Joe Biden’s speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on Thursday was one of the most remarkable in living memory. By “remarkable,” I…

Liz Cheney: the self-appointed moral center of the GOP

26 August 2022 12:57 am

I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to write about Liz Cheney again. After she was crushed by the Trump-endorsed Harriet…

The real motivation for the FBI raid

22 August 2022 2:00 pm

I write a day after the FBI, without warning, raided Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach. According to Trump, agents…

Donald Trump has enemies everywhere

20 August 2022 3:23 am

I think that Michael Anton is correct that “the people who really run the United States of America have made it clear…

The great White House replacement

4 August 2022 12:13 pm

I like it when I can endorse the other side. It makes me feel like I’m part of the big…

We must stand up for private rights

6 May 2022 1:40 am

By disposition, conservatives distrust government. They are for “limited government” and worry about the coercive power of the state intruding…

Why not Trump in 2024?

20 March 2022 1:00 pm

I see that my National Review friends are writing their letters to Santa a bit early. Some, like Rich Lowry’s…

Kamala Harris laughs at a war

13 March 2022 2:29 pm

It’s nice to be prescient. On Thursday, in a column titled “Kamala Invades Poland,” I introduced the world to “cackle…

Kamala invades Poland

11 March 2022 3:04 am

You can tell that the Biden administration is getting serious. They have unleashed their ultimate weapon, cackle diplomacy. The warhead is…

Ted Cruz’s glorious about-face on January 6

15 January 2022 3:47 am

Despite the best efforts of the media, the Democrats, and Liz Cheney, the Capitol protests of January 6 refuse to…

What was Ted Cruz thinking?

10 January 2022 12:41 am

At least since the 2016 election, one of my favorites politicians — one of the few I could stomach at…

Who’s a vigilante anyway?

18 December 2021 5:22 am

The idea that what happened at the Capitol of January 6 was an “insurrection” was always a ridiculous and malevolent…

Silence of the Jussie Smollett defenders

11 December 2021 5:16 am

Some people say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Nonsense. There is also the certainty that…

Is the Trump/Russia collusion hoax about to be exposed?

15 November 2021 3:56 pm

Ultimately, I suspect, John Durham will break your heart. At least, he will if you think, as I once hoped,…