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October 2011

The next US president needs to learn from the blunders of this administration to pursue a foreign policy worthy of a great power
With the race for the Republican nomination well under way, an America not led by Barack Obama seems to optimists to be just around the corner. A Republican president would face economic recovery as his chief task, but foreign policy would intrude fast.Just as Obama sought to differentiate himself from his predecessor, a new president would surely break with Obama quickly in his approach to the world. In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter. Obama has eschewed American leadership, adopting in its place what the New Yorker famously called the policy of "leading from behind".
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LORD SACKS LECTURE: The Limits of Secularism
UPCOMING LECTURE - 10 OCTOBER 2011
The Chief Rabbi, Baron Sacks of Aldgate, will give the first lecture in a series on The Limits of Secularism
The Poor Need a Truly Creative Jobs Plan
MICHAEL NOVAK
Instead of punishing the rich the president should unleash the energy and animal spirits of the most visionary business people
How the US's Climate of Opinion Changed
MYRON EBELL
Americans oppose the use of global warming to justify government intervention. Can a Republican candidate attack the consensus?
 
The Battle for the Soul of English Education
OLIVER LEWIS AND JAMIE MARTIN
Last month 24 free schools opened in Britain. Those who oppose them should look at the success of their American counterparts
The End of Europe's Fantasy is Now in Sight
DANIEL HANNAN
The EU has lost all legitimacy and its former supporters are deserting in droves. But blind to reality, its apparatchiks cling on
The Odd Couple who Presided over Disaster
TIM CONGDON
Alistair Darling was the luckless understudy to Gordon Brown and Mervyn King as they led Britain into an avoidable recession
 
Banished but Unbroken Sisters
JAMES KELLY
After the Reformation, Catholic nuns fled across the Channel, only to return centuries later. Now, the last of the exiled orders is closing
Backing the Habit: Life as a Nun Today
NICHI HODGSON
English convent life has slipped out of sight. But women in holy orders still have a crucial role in an increasingly secular society
The Philosopher's Home from Home
LESLEY CHAMBERLAIN
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Norwegian retreat no longer exists, but his presence among the fjords is still felt 60 years after his death
GEORGE WALDEN AND NICK COHEN
The writer and former Tory minister and the political commentator discuss the genesis of the riots with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson