The West
The ultimate gamble
This is an important and topical book. Mary Sarotte traces the difficult course of Russia’s relations with Europe and the…
West is best
So why be ashamed of ourselves?
Has Putin resurrected the West?
I think Putin will have been surprised. I mean: I was surprised. Weren’t you? Not, necessarily, that Ukraine should have…
The descent of Afghanistan
The bomb attacks at Kabul airport were what US and allied commanders overseeing the mass evacuation had most feared. In…
The Kremlin’s plan to destabilise the West
On Sunday, Russia releasedits new National Security Strategy. In many ways, it picked up from where the 2015 version left…
Thank God for western values
Declarations of hope that Notre Dame can be resurrected have been much in evidence this Holy Week. Such is the…
Ian Kershaw recounts Europe’s recovery from WWII – have the good times run their course?
When I reviewed the first volume of Sir Ian Kershaw’s wrist-breaking history of the last 100 years of Europe, To…
Are we looking at the end of liberal democracy?
As a graduate student in the Harvard Department of Government in the late 1980s, I became slightly jaded about the…
Original sin makes us better people. I wish Muslims believed in it
These days, on the subject of Islam, non-Muslims have mostly divided into two camps — though there’s a little wandering…
Faith in freedom
What’s wrong with calls for an ‘Islamic Reformation’
Bear market
The West will have to drop sanctions on Russia – or face another global economic crash
Europe vs liberty
Václav Klaus, the former Czech president, on David Cameron, the EU, Russia — and the end of free speech
What to do about Putin
Sanctions won’t help. One thing might
