US Politics

The US’s new Secretary of Defence should behave a little less like his Prussian near namesake and avoid hero-worshipping foreign military prowess

‘The reaction to lady thatcher’s death in the US brought an avalanche of affection and praise both on the Right and the Left’

In attempting to answer his question Why Tolerate Religion, Chicago philosopher Brian Leiter wilfully neglects the impact of the Judaeo-Christian tradition on Western civilisation

Obama’s multilateralism and a growing trend for Republicans to turn their backs on the world pose a grave security threat

‘The Obama administration has done everything in its power to terrify ordinary Americans with his dystopian vision of what the sequester will mean to them’

‘In case some of you Europeans were getting hopeful, no, mainstream demography does not predict that Americans are on the brink of extinction’

‘In the gap where arguments and examples should be, the President invoked God, attacked the Republicans and invoked spectacle’

‘Obama’s attempt to discourage a British referendum on EU membership was old-style imperialism’

The once derided, now unmentionable George W. Bush shames the Obama Administration in their respective attempts to promote peace in the Middle East

Until Republicans convince voters that strong foreign policy is crucial to national security, America’s decline will continue