<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Roger Kimball]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=16573Author <![CDATA[MSNBC Trying to Stir Up Racial Tensions]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:00:00 -0700 <![CDATA[Frank Rich is Delusional]]> Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:00:00 -0700 <![CDATA[Wealth Creation vs. Spending]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 -0700 Boris Johnson, the redoubtable Mayor of London, cuts through the bickering fog of self-righteous protestation that characterizes so much political discourse today. The real debate, the Right Honorable Lord Mayor observes, is not between Labour spending versus Tory cuts-the "progressive" (Yanks read "Democratic") versus the "hard-hearted" (read: "Republican") approach to public expenditure. No, the real debate is between those who focus on disbursing and those who concentrate on creating wealth. What Mr. Johnson describes as a "small, sheep-like cough of protest" in his article in the <![CDATA["Tectonic change," Barack Obama, and You]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:00:00 -0700 But within hours it transpired that the GM board was not really a player in this drama of corporate defenestration. No, Mr. Wagoner is getting the Order of the Boot not at the behest of the GM Board but at the insistence of Barack Obama.

Why, you might ask, is the President of the United States mucking about in personnel matters of a public corporation?

Good question. Politico touches on the essential issue in its report:

"The surprise announcement about the classically iconic American corporation is perhaps the most vivid sign yet of the tectonic change in the relationship between business and government in this era of subsidies and bailouts."

The critical phrase...]]> <![CDATA[The Gipper vs. Obama]]> Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:00:00 -0800 That was a mistake that Reagan never made. He was first and last an apostle of individual liberty. He knew that increasing government control of economic life meant increasing government control of all aspects of life. He also had a deep insight into the spiritual legerdemain according to which socialism masqueraded as humanitarianism.

The real problem for conservatives today is not their nostalgic admiration of Reagan, but their distance from Reagan's moral clarity. A clever blogger at Texas Rainmaker (hat-tip to Instapundit) reminds us of just how great that distance is by juxtaposing...]]> <![CDATA[Trying to Bulldoze Free Speech]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:00:00 -0800 <![CDATA[The End of Art]]> Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0800 June/July 2008

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Nearly everyone cares—or says he cares—about art. After all, art ennobles the spirit, ­elevates the mind, and...]]> <![CDATA[When “Bailout” Means “Payback”]]> Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0800 Once upon a time, it was cheerfully said that “as Detroit goes, so goes America.” The same thing is being said to day, but in more worried tones. Is America the basket case that the American car industry is, hamstrung by asphyxiating labor contracts, saddled with crushing pension and health-care obligations, snagged in a purblind corporate culture that is out of touch with the consumer? I don’t think so, but the fact that grown-ups are seriously considering pumping billions of dollars into this failed industry makes me realize that many of our duly elected leaders are farther down that road than one would like.

But why? I know Democrats like to spend as much money...]]> <![CDATA[A Few Thoughts from WFB]]> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:00:00 -0800 <![CDATA[Conservative Gloominess]]> Sat, 17 May 2008 22:00:00 -0700 <![CDATA[On McCain, NYT Grasping At Straws]]> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:00:00 -0700 <![CDATA[Why I Do Not Like the New York Times]]> Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:00:00 -0700