Hitler learned to hate Jewish people in the lecture halls of Munich University. His racism was not genetically encoded in him. All the evidence suggests that, when Hitler was a youth, the Jews were not on his radar. It was a university that changed all that.
No former president taught Donald Trump more about the office than did Jimmy Carter. The returning president is the anti-Carter.
In Ireland, secular progressivism has become the prevailing orthodoxy as it goes through its second generation of anti-Catholicism. Israel has fallen foul of it.
Parties of the left will seek to clothe reproductive rights and assisted dying in the same moral superiority. All the time we will be asked to celebrate the primacy of choice.
Gillard said her exit from politics was inexplicable without taking gender into account. So did Clinton. Perhaps the reason is that the progressive faith in gender before talent has given us women who just aren’t very good.
The movement Trump has unleashed will redefine American government and culture – and that of the wider West – for decades to come. We are all now part of the Age of Trump.
Harris has revealed a fundamental pragmatism that may be enough to get her elected. More people are about to vote for her than for any leader in US history.
Why is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East so hated by people living in other liberal democracies?
Scoring the debate like a boxing match, there was a clear winner. But the Democrats could have hardly contrived a more Harris-friendly Grand Inquisitor.
Harris does not want abortion ‘safe, legal and celebrated’ only in California and New York. She wants it nationalised into Alabama and Wyoming. This is a recipe for polarisation and conflict.
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