‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
In A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America, Richard Slotkin attempts to untangle the stories that the US tells itself about race, colonialism and the Civil War. Is it a lost cause?
Donald J. Trump
US President or American Caesar?
American democracy has been haunted by the spectre of a Caesar-type figure since the birth of the republic. Have such fears ever been justified?
Richard Nixon's Opening to China and Closing the Gold Window
President Trump’s recent foreign adventures are unlikely to match Nixon’s actions of July and August 1971 in historic significance.
Back to the Future: Donald Trump and the Debate Over American Decline
The 45th US President is caught in a constant rerun of the debates of the 1980s, argues Charlie Laderman.
Make America Great (Britain) Again!
When Joe Biden said ‘God save the Queen’, was he heralding the end of the republic?
The Phenomenology of Donald Trump
The story of Italian game show host Mike Bongiorno suggests an alternative explanation for Trump's triumph.
Waves of Authoritarianism
The world’s demagogues offer simple solutions and a strong hand. Trump’s victory in 2016 was a reminder of this.
Donald Trump and the Election of 1800
Many have drawn parallels between Donald Trump and Aaron Burr, who Alexander Hamilton described as ‘one of the most unprincipled men in the United States’. But a more useful, if surprising, comparison might be drawn with Thomas Jefferson.