Reading Time: 3 minutes Conservative Arthur Brooks argues people can head off a cultural and political implosion by celebrating the perspective of the other
Tag: Politics in Books
Crossroads: the growing Republican divide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Rather than a positive endorsement of their world view, Republican electoral success comes down to a simple rejection of the Democrats
Political “wobbles” prove politics really is a blood sport
Reading Time: 3 minutes Theresa May’s recent political “wobble” brings to mind Margaret Thatcher and the 1987 British election, which she won in spite of herself
The nationalism versus globalism debate explained
Reading Time: 3 minutes Much of current elite opinion would be soundly rejected by voters if ever openly expressed at the ballot box
Finding Donald Trump under the Christmas tree
Reading Time: 3 minutes Three new books examine a nation’s people at cross purposes and the potential for America’s new president to reconcile those differences
JFK and Reagan more alike than you’d think
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kennedy and Reagan have assumed sainthood status for their polarized parties and claiming continuity between them strikes many as rank heresy
Robert Conquest, the man who was right
Reading Time: 3 minutes Apologists for the Soviet Union and Stalin in particular, according to Conquest, suffered a form of “mental aberration”
Trudeau, Mulcair autobiographies election season pap
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trudeau’s autobiography reads like it was written by committee; Mulcair’s is not telling the whole story