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Can the Atlantic Coalition Hold?

William Kristol, founder-editor of the leading American conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, and Tim Montgomerie, founder-editor of the ConservativeHome website, discuss the similar problems facing the US and Britain with Standpoint Editor

June 22, 2010

Academia·Dialogue·North America·Obama·Philosophy·Politics·UK Politics·US Politics·Westminster

Obama’s Fantasies

Barack Obama’s utopian daydreams lack moral courage, and are a gift to his enemies A year ago in Cairo, Barack Obama delivered an address promising a new era of wisdom and understanding in

May 21, 2010

Counterpoints·Iran·Middle East·Obama·US Politics·War on Terror

Coming to America

'Should we treat assimilation not as a taboo subject but as an opportunity?'

April 27, 2010

Academia·European Eye·Immigration·US Politics

Is the Obama Presidency Failing?

The administration is in deep trouble on healthcare and national security “What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them,” President Barack Obama declared in his inaugural

March 19, 2010

Features·International·North America·Obama·US Politics

Civil Society

Civility has become the new political buzz word, but its meaning has been distorted to suit the left-liberal consensus Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary contains some lovely lines. One of them, as I learned

December 14, 2009

Counterpoints·Language·US Politics

Henry the First

Kissinger's Year: 1973 by Alistair Horne

August 25, 2009

Books·US Politics

Exile on Jermyn Street

Blacklisted by Hollywood, my father Carl Foreman made a new life in Britain. But he never forsook the country of his birth, says Jonathan Foreman Funerals feel more natural in the winter.

June 23, 2009

Communism·Features·Film·US Politics

Amoral Equivalence

Beyond Terror and Martyrdom by Gilles KepelThe Case Against Israel’s Enemies by Alan Dershowitz

December 17, 2008

Books·Defence·Ethnicity·Faith·France·Global Governance·International·Islam·Israel·Judaism·Middle East·North America·Politics·US Politics·War on Terror

New York: A Cousin in the White House

US Election Week diary: New Yorkers and their attitudes towards the new president “I don’t want to live in a country that will elect Sarah Palin.” Fragments of a conversation between two

November 26, 2008

Dispatches·Ethnicity·McCain·Media·North America·Obama·Social Affairs·Urbanism·US Politics

Africa Has a Dream: Obama

The new president will be welcomed by most ordinary Africans, if not by their rulers

November 25, 2008

Africa·Features·International·North America·Obama·Politics·US Politics

Beware the Obama Machine

When I drew attention to the two-faced tactics of the Democratic candidate over Iraq, his ‘militants’ turned nasty

October 24, 2008

Features·North America·Obama·US Politics

New York: Diary

‘New York feels much calmer than London about the financial crisis. It’s not clear if this attitude is a product of resignation or sheer denial, schadenfreude against wealthy financiers, or perhaps a

October 24, 2008

Dispatches·Economy·Film·International·McCain·Media·North America·Obama·Social Affairs·The West·Urbanism·US Politics

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