Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of the New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He tweets at @rogerkimball
Searching for a radical alternative
Two new titles join a burgeoning chorus of populist lament
Quaffing the cup that cheers
Readers should savour this book, as you might one of the delectable bottles that compose the enticing strophe of the book’s narrative
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums