Elliott Abrams
The Arabs need us to support democracy
Since the Arab Spring, authoritarian regimes are on the march. To discourage democrats is bad for the West as well as for their peoples
The US Can Still Help Save Syria — and Iraq
Is President Obama’s announcement that he wishes to ‘ramp up’ support for the rebels a serious policy change or more obfuscation?
Neoconservatism: A Good Idea That Won’t Go Away
Critics like to think that neoconservative ideas lie buried in the sands of Iraq. But neocons are still in the mainstream of US politics
Against the Obama Doctrine of Decline
The next US president needs to learn from the blunders of this administration to pursue a foreign policy worthy of a great power
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?