Joe Biden’s summer vacation
He’s going for a nice ride across the big, big ocean in a very shiny airplane. Weeee!
Europe
Tuesday
Sunday
When migrants come, their culture does too
Politicians and the media have done their best to downplay the post-2015 wave of harassment and assaults
Monday
The next American empire
After the blowout, the blowback
Trump had an opportunity to redefine American foreign policy. He blew it
President Trump ought to have used his Saturday platform to tell Europeans what an awful idea American intervention in World War One really was
Wednesday
Homes, sweet homes
A few years ago, for reasons I can’t recall, I acquired a donkey hut in the Molise
Tuesday
‘A system at odds with the Constitution’
A conversation with Christopher Caldwell about America today
Tuesday
The enduring power of the Special Relationship
US-UK relations remain strong
Tuesday
Notre-Dame is a sign of the times
When it reopens, Notre Dame will be even more a museum, even less a shrine
Wednesday
Merkel’s immigrant boom wreaks havoc in Germany’s prisons
Prisons throughout Germany are overcrowded and struggling to handle the influx in population
Thursday
Macron vs Salvini: the ideological battle for Europe’s future
The first sign that Matteo Salvini was destined to do battle with Emmanuel Macron came in June, a few days after he was named Italy’s interior minister. Salvini, whose party, the League, wants to cut immigration drastically, announced that a German-registered rescue ship carrying 629 aspiring migrants from Africa would not be allowed to dock in Sicily. Macron reacted with disgust. ‘The policy of the Italian government,’ a spokesman for his political movement announced, ‘is nauseating.’ Salvini responded that if the French wanted to show their open–heartedness, they might make good on their unfulfilled pledge to feed and shelter some of the 100,000 African migrants Italy had until recently been
Tuesday
Churchill was all in favour of a united Europe — as long as it didn’t include Britain
Dr Felix Klos is an extremely personable, highly intelligent American-Dutch historian who has undertaken much archival research, worked extremely hard and is an excellent writer. In trying to persuade us that Churchill favoured Britain joining a federal Europe, however, he comes up against several immovable obstacles. The most serious of these is that in the … Read more
