‘Even in the midst of financial turmoil, the West still needs defending’

Starbucks is the symbol of American capitalism, but it's principle product was first brought to the West by an Islamic empire

‘The crisis in the Caucasus has undoubtedly ushered in a period of global insecurity’

By opening its columns to Islamist apologists, Prospect magazine is undermining moderate Muslims

‘Gray knew what it meant to speak in prose, in an era when it is not the love of money but contempt for honest language that is the root of all evil’

‘These illiberal liberals, who then flirted with Stalinism as they do today with Islamism, are as contemptuous as ever of what Orwell meant by the middle-class virtues’

Terror and Consent by Philip Bobbitt

‘America is a looking glass in which humanity sees itself reflected and, all too often, distorted by fear, envy and resentment’

‘To defend and celebrate Western civilisation is not merely desirable; it is imperative’

The new transatlantic buzzword is actually a very old one — ancient Greek, in fact. Thumos is defined by Robert Kagan as “a spiritedness and ferocity in defence of clan, tribe, city, or state”.