Notes & Comments May 2019
“Massive retaliation”: the only answer
On Roger Scruton’s removal from Britain’s Building Better, Building Beautiful commission.
Topic: “Political Correctness”
Apr 24, 2019
Roger Kimball introduces the May issue of The New Criterion
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The media April 2019
Make-believe worlds
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On the Mueller report and the Jussie Smollett scandal.
Mar 27, 2019
Roger Kimball introduces the April issue of The New Criterion
featuring
The media March 2019
Not the same as shame
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On the Covington Catholic affair.
Mar 01, 2019
Roger Kimball introduces the March issue of The New Criterion
featuring
Feb 13, 2019
Overton-U
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On the “Overton window” of socially respectable opinion.
Feb 01, 2019
Roger Kimball introduces the February issue of The New Criterion
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Notes & Comments February 2019
Opportunity knocks
On recent hoaxes exposing academic puffery.
Jan 24, 2019
Where’s the mercy in “social justice”?
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The arbitrariness and voyeurism reveal the spirit of vengeance that animates these rituals of accusation.