Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of The National Interest. He lives in Washington DC
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Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis declared as he was sworn in for a second time yesterday that, under his reign, Florida ‘will never surrender to the woke mob’. Meanwhile, woke or not, a different mob was disrupting the proceedings in Washington, D.C. at the nation’s Capitol. The same lawmakers who plotted to disrupt Joe Biden’s inauguration
Zelensky’s very presence in Washington is a standing rebuke to Vladimir Putin
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With the January 6 Committee’s recommendation to the Justice Department last night to prosecute Donald Trump on four counts of insurrection, obstruction and conspiracy, he has gone from predator to prey. Like Jay Gatsby, who believed in the ‘orgastic future that recedes before us year by year’, he has never doubted in his abilities to
The omniscient grandmaster of the GOP is no more
His dinner with Nick Fuentes will weaken but not cripple his political ambitions
No one has done more to alert us to the perils of a demagogic cult leader
As he’s sentenced for defying the January 6 Committee, all eyes now turn to Trump
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Poor Donald Trump. The 6 January committee has subpoenaed him. The New York attorney general is seeking to put the kibosh on his new Trump II organisation. The Supreme Court has rejected his bid to stymie the Mar-a-Lago investigation. What next? Will it turn out that Jared or even — gasp! — Ivanka has been
In any assessment of jazz’s founding fathers, he has to stand as the most influential figure
Alluding to ‘Armageddon,’ the president has become a warlord by proxy
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It almost seems worthy of the opening scene in a Bond film. Vital Russian gas pipelines running beneath the Baltic Sea close to Denmark and Sweden are the victims of sabotage. The two countries have warned of leaks from both Nord Stream 1 and 2 after seismologists suggested there had been underwater explosions. No one wants to
Italy’s new populist leader is a symptom of European ills
The louder he bellows, the faster Democrats rise in the polls
For all his bluster, Xi Jinping doesn’t want a war
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Freddy Gray speaks with Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest, ahead of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. They discuss if this is a turning point in US relations with Taiwan, whether we are heading for World War Three, or if Pelosi is calling China’s bluff.
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
His rivals wait in the wings as the evidence against him mounts
Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
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Freddy Gray talks to journalists Jacob Heilbrunn, the editor of The National Interest, and John Daniel Davidson, senior editor of The Federalist, about the beginning of public hearings at the House Select Committee into the events of January 6th 2021.
Fifty years on, the hero of Watergate has become little more than a stenographer
