John O'Sullivan

Essays

Society

In Defense of Nationalism

| 12.01.04

Global elites inveigh against the evils of nationalism. But how will transnationalism save us from bad ideas? It never has before.

Global Governance

The Tory Debacle: Is Thatcher to Blame?

| 12.01.97

Jonathan Clarke and others discuss the reasons for the Tory electoral defeat in May 1997.

Reviews

Society

Subverting Kant

| 12.01.00

An Irishman of indefatiguable mind and rare sensibilities.

Society

How the West Was Spun

| 03.01.99

Christopher Coker's Twilight of the West looks at present geopolitical trends and predicts the West's dissolution; David Gress, in From Plato to Nato, sees them as yet another episode in the long struggle between the mainstream W

Society

Presented at Court

| 12.01.96

This book is a record of disappointment in love.

Commentary

Reagan in Retrospect

| 06.09.04

In the late Fall of 1988, shortly before Ronald Reagan left office, I was a dinner guest at the home of a distinguished Nixonian.

Politics

Europe and the Establishment

| 03.31.04

In Britain, they have admitted the existence of "the establishment" ever since journalist Henry Fairlie coined the term in the mid-fifties.

Thoughts on the Transatlantic Relationship

| 10.15.03

"Women wage the sex war by vindictiveness," said the late Cyril Connolly, "men by indifference.

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