Roger Kimball

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  • Oct 10, 2024
    In his analysis of “Newspeak” in 1984, George Orwell called attention to the important issue of having the courage to call things by their right...
  • Oct 2, 2024
    Disasters do tend to make us pause to reflect. Will it work with the “Death-to-Israel, Death-to-America” crowd spilling out of Iran? The jury is still out on...
  • Sep 28, 2024
    Let the Hosannas ring forth: Fredric Jameson, one of the world’s most owlish producers of reader-proof prose of a Marxian bent, has just shuffled off his mortal coil, age 90.
  • Mar 22, 2024
    If you type “Balfour portrait” into your favorite search engine (and we note as a public service that it does not have to be Google), the first spate of stories that...