The next American empire
After the blowout, the blowback
Europe
Monday
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
Personal antipathy between the two men is turning into a contest for European hearts and minds
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
