Roger Kimball

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[Lynn Chu @lynnchu]

@rogerkimball Abdulrahman Mohammed Al-Sayyid, which is how the Muslim Brotherhood spells Abdul El-Sayed’s name, means Servant of the gracious Lord and Master Mohammed. In other words, of Islam. He claimed it meant Servant Leader portraying himself in the role of leader.

[Tunku Varadarajan @tunkuv]

I'm crazy about Orthodox icons and Byzantine iconography. Anyone who's been to an Orthodox Church will have seen their liturgics of light, the contemplative semi-darkness illuminated only by oil lamps and candles and the natural light that peeks in and retreats through windows and chinks. The icons are painted with the light in mind, their golds and reds designed to pick up and dance to the sparse light. I spent hours at the Byzantine Museum in Athens. It is to die for.

[Roger Kimball @rogerkimball]

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[Roger Kimball @rogerkimball]

The key to the leftist mindset: "Lonnie Bunch, like so many on the left, believes that his opinions represent a virtue-saturated state of nature. He thinks he is apolitical because his political opinions – about race, “climate change,” diversity, etc. – are simply what every right-thinking, i.e., left-leaning person believes. It’s only those who dissent from that monolithic consensus who have have politics. It’s nice work if you can get it. Donald Trump is making it increasingly expensive to indulge in that divisive and intellectually irresponsible fantasy." Se my latest for @TheSpectator, link below.

[Richard Andrew Pera 🍊 @pera_richard]

@prefpub1 @JackoWilliams64 @EminaMelonic @pasbless @RFultonBrown @BarnettforAZ @DeltaTheBravo @TheLastRefuge2 @vandalbob @docMJP @rogerkimball @GadSaad @BaxterSB224 @Last2ndFleetCMC @realDonaldTrump @JamieGlazov @mark_bauerlein @julie_kelly2 @GenFlynn @RpwWilliams @ALEXNEWMAN_JOU @DanScavino @Simpsonreport @JamesPanero @NationalFile @SidneyPowell1 @ericmetaxas @ShawnSmith1776 @charliekirk11 @realDianaWest @gheliason @MikeBenzCyber @MarkPaoletta @C_3C_3 @StephenM @GodandCountryy @VoterGa @BackboneRadio @DataRepublican @theprofsrecord @mazemoore @listen_2learn @pulte @larryelder @davidpgoldman @ClaremontInst "The honest question on this anniversary is not whether we honored the dead....It is whether we have ever understood what had been done to us and why-and whether the American people have been made safer or left exposed in ways their forefathers would have found unthinkable."

[Victoria Coates @VictoriaCoates]

@rogerkimball Spot on. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy.

[Roger Kimball @rogerkimball]

Thoughts @TheSpectator about the departure of Lonnie Bunch as head of the Smithsonian Institution, once a repository of the history and artifacts of the United States but under his direction a poster child for the way DEI can infiltrate and undermine a once-healthy institution. I also include a brief coda on the essential toxin that makes the left-liberal consensus so destructive. https://t.co/HXq7igqAFq

[Ryan P. Williams @RpwWilliams]

Here’s the essay, as promised:

https://t.co/VUfAwREdk3

[Roger Kimball @rogerkimball]

However much you loathe the @NYTimes it is not enough.

[Clifford Asness @CliffordAsness]

The never fail to fail NYT’s lead editorial today is focused on America’s failures after 9/11 not 9/11 itself. Yes that’s definitely what I would’ve lead with.

[Roger Kimball @rogerkimball]

https://t.co/2jQpKTlYzE

[Roger Kimball @rogerkimball]

On this anniversary of the Islamofascist terorrist attacks of 9/11, what is the one thing above all others that you should bear in mind? A friend put it well: the murderous attacks were not a tragedy, as is often said; they were an atrocity. Runner-up most important thing to remember, "Islam" does not mean "peace," as President George W. Bush was at pains to tell us both then and now. Rather, it means "submission," as in "submission to the will of Allah." Also, and again pace W., Islam is not a "religion of peace." On the contrary, it is an intolerant, theocratic ideology of subjugation. Winston Churchill got it in one. Whatever splendid qualities are displayed by individual Muslims, Churchill wrote, "No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" than Islam. I have a few additional thoughts on this matter at my substack, link below.

[🇺🇸JB MAGA 🇺🇸 @JBMAGA03]

🇺🇸 This is what American power looks like.

14-year-old Laura Montero’s appendix burst 550 miles from the nearest surgeon while on a cruise off Baja.

The USS Ronald Reagan — a nuclear aircraft carrier with thousands of sailors — changed course overnight, launched a helicopter, hoisted her off the cruise ship in a basket, and performed emergency surgery at sea.

She was already septic. They saved her life.

That’s the U.S. Navy. That’s what we do.

Never apologize for this country.

[Roger Kimball @rogerkimball]

@DavidLimbaugh They are fantastic, David. I am on my 5th!

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

Still the same naive liberal foolishness 25 years later.

[Larry P. Arnn @DrLarryArnn]

A year has passed since the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I think of him often, and the first thing I remember about him is his sense of fun. He did great things, worked hard, prayed hard, took care of his family while he built a great organization. He loved all of those things, and he did not forget to enjoy them. He was happy.

The nation is poorer without Charlie, and of course his friends miss him acutely. One thing to remember about him is the joy he found in his work, his family, his loves. The problems Charlie spent his life repairing are still with us today. We should emulate the way Charlie went about his work. When a young man, Winston Churchill said once, “What is life for but to struggle in noble causes?” Charlie Kirk reminds us of the same thing. We should be happy about it.

[Pamela Paresky 🟦 (Habits of a Free Mind) @PamelaParesky]

One of the most important things to understand about the war in Gaza is that the only genocide was the one Hamas attempted on October 7. And when Israelis refused to be victims, the genocide libel became another weapon.

[Samuel Gregg @DrSamuelGregg]

Ladies and Gentlemen, author’s copies have arrived! 🥳📘🎉

Available 🔜 on @amazon and at all good book outlets on October 13th.

With thanks to my great publishers @EncounterBooks.

[John Daniel Davidson @johnddavidson]

25 years after 9/11 and it seems one of the chief villains of the world that came after was George W. Bush, a weak and insecure man who refused—and still refuses—to speak truthfully about the religious nature of 9/11 because he doesn’t want to be called a racist.

[Roger Kimball @rogerkimball]

You haven’t changed a bit.!

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

Here’s what I would have looked like in the 1980s. Oh wait. It’s what I did look like in the 1980s

[Clifford Asness @CliffordAsness]

This is a great community note.