Restoring American Culture – Part 1 of 3 by Roger Kimball

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Restoring American Culture – Part 1 of 3 by Roger Kimball
Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump declared that he and his supporters were “the party of common sense.” In his Inaugural Address on January 20, Trump returned to this theme. With his flurry of executive orders, he said, “We will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. It’s all about […]
January 6th and the Corruption of the Government – Part 2 of 2
Continuing with some things we do know about January 6th: In addition, we know that on the morning of January 6, 2021, tens of thousands of Trump supporters gathered for a rally on The Ellipse, a park south of the White House, to show support for the President and protest what they believed were irregularities […]
January 6th and the Corruption of the Government – Part 1 of 2
On January 22nd of this year, John Daniel Davidson, Senior Editor at The Federalist, delivered a talk on the topic of January 6th – the so-called insurrection that the media and the Left are still very much worked up about. Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wasn’t even inside the main Capital building where the breach took […]
The Democrat Party Malaise
People who know me know that I do not belong to a political party. I am not a Democrat. And I am not a Republican. My view of political parties is that while they can, in theory, do some good, they inevitably do more harm than good. Political parties go through different phases at different […]
Zombies Walk Among Us
Let me begin with a disclaimer. I am going to use a term that many would consider a pejorative towards innocent people that don’t deserve it. Some of my readers will consider what I am going to say in this column to be unnecessarily mean, cruel, and rude. The offending word is zombie and I […]
What Have We Learned From DOGE?
Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election fair and square. He won the popular vote, he won all of the swing states, he won the electoral college, the Republicans maintained control of the House, and the Republicans snatched the Senate away from the Democrats. Although many Democrats deny this, the election was a blood-bath for […]
Donald Trump and the Quest for Justice
Here’s a thought: Donald Trump was the most maligned person in politics ever since he announced his intent to run for high office on June 16, 2015. People lied about him, people deliberately tried to ruin his life, the media ganged up on him, people wanted him dead. It would be wholly understandable if Trump […]
Who is Debrina Kawam?
Most of you reading this won’t recognize the name of Debrina Kawam – that is, until I tell you a little about her. Often referred to informally as Debbie, she was a native of Toms River, New Jersey. You can see a photo of her from her high school years in the picture accompanying this […]
Leftism: A Summary of a Summary
As I discussed in both the Self-Development column above, and in the Shameless Plug segment below, I completed my goal for 2024 of writing my first book, The Leftist Hydra: How the Progressive Left is Undermining Western Civilization. The book itself has a chapter near the end that summarizes my views of how Leftism is […]
Why Did Christians Vote for Trump?
The wife of a close friend of mine, JB (a close friend in her own right) is really disappointed in the recent presidential election results.  Thus, she asked me to address the question: Why is it that so many Christians voted for this loathsome, creepy, villainous character, Donald J. Trump?  (She didn’t word it quite that […]