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Funniest Press Release of the Season, Or, My Gratitude to The New York Times

By Roger Kimball | December 30th, 2009

I don’t often associate the name “New York Times Company” with the phrase “good sense of humor,” but I must say today’s press release from that formerly august enterprise did bring a smile to my lips. Oyez, oyez, Hear Ye Now about the “The New York Times Ninth Annual Arts & Leisure Weekend January 7 [...]

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The Reid Bill: coercive and unconstitutional

By Roger Kimball | December 22nd, 2009

A few years ago, Hilton Kramer and I commissioned a series of essays for The New Criterion on the illiberal underside of liberalism. We later published revised versions of the essays under the title The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control. [...]

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Picture worth a thousand words department . . .

By Roger Kimball | December 21st, 2009

These pictures, sent to me by a friend, seem to sum up what’s just happened to the American people:

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