Letters from Spectator readers, July 2024
Normandy, Philly and crushing the cartels
D-day
Monday
Thursday
Joe Biden’s D-Day performance is evidence of his mental unfitness
He forgot where to sit, talked about the loss of Russian troops and sat in an invisible chair
If the West is to stay the same, a lot will have to change
Plenty of historical situations in which fundamental assumptions about society are disrupted can be restored only by something like revolution
On D-Day, Macron has learned nothing and forgotten everything
He embodies the corruption of liberal democracy into elite managerialism
Monday
This Memorial Day, reflect on your freedom
Thoughts on Normandy and D-Day
Wednesday
On D-Day at eighty
All the sadness of lost youth hovers over Normandy
Monday
The difficulties of writing historical fiction
Historians ask ‘What?’ Novelists ask ‘What if?’
Friday
Eighty years later, World War Two is fading from historical memory
We’re losing touch with its lessons just as they struggled to commemorate the Civil War
