Carter a kind man but poor president
Jimmy Carter was a man of decency, character and principle. But his presidency suffered from two problems: America’s enemies didn’t fear Carter, and America’s allies couldn’t rely on him.
Jimmy Carter was a man of decency, character and principle. But his presidency suffered from two problems: America’s enemies didn’t fear Carter, and America’s allies couldn’t rely on him.
The American essayist and academic published Gilead in 2004. It won the Pulitzer Prize, an astonishing outcome, given its subject: a dying pastor’s letter to his son. It is perhaps the best novel I’ve read.
The sharpest historian in the West, Niall Ferguson, thinks throwing away Christianity was pretty dumb. Doing so hurt our culture; more important, it has hurt individual human beings. Striking words, coming from a ‘lapsed atheist’.
There’s always the chance Donald Trump will make such a mess of things that his revolution is short-lived … but he has the opportunity, if he governs well, to produce permanent change.
Whether you like Donald Trump or not, it’s an extraordinary achievement, a nearly unbelievable comeback, a triumph of one man’s will, and of democracy itself.
When the dust settles on the US election, the Washington strategic class and decision-makers around either Trump or Harris will take notice of this Australian omnishambles.
America would almost certainly be stronger internationally and project a more credible deterrence under Trump than it would under Harris.
It’s not so much that Americans must choose the lesser of two evils but that they face the evil of two lessers. After this exhausting, unbelievable contest, the momentum is with the strange guy with orange hair.
Pat Conroy’s fatuous and preposterous speech to the National Press Club on the coming missile age exemplifies everything that is wrong with defence policy under the Albanese government.
Joe de Bruyn delivered a modest speech faithful to Catholic doctrine. It was reasonable to disagree with it but the response of Zlatko Skrbis was extraordinary, and seriously damaging.
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