If Roger Kimball were asking readers to note Paul Sperry’s classic demolition of Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler and the Washington Post itself, there is a good chance he would quote Juvenal’s famous query from Satires VI: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (“Who is to guard the guardians?”) and offer a learned disquisition on it. Perhaps the quote has become sufficiently well known that no disquisition is necessary. It speaks for itself.

Kessler and the Post purport to be guardians of the truth, but they are partisan frauds. We know that. Sperry takes Kessler’s October 2020 fact-check as a devastating case study: “Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop: An explainer.” Even the headline is a groaner.

Sperry’s demolition is relentless.