Letter from Washington / Searching for Barack  

‘What then is the American, this new man?’ J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur asked in his Letters to an American Farmer in 1782 before describing the distinctly American character that was emerging on the eastern seaboard of a new …





Democrats could blow 2008 over national security  

Not long ago, the President of one of America’s flagship universities was sitting with its top government affairs staffer, musing, for a change, about something other than fundraising and faculty recruitment. ‘Is it possible,’ asked the President, a liberal of …