Phillip Mark McGough
It would be invidious — and probably impossible — to highlight one moment of madness from a Democratic National Convention otherwise replete with mad moments. For keen observers of the creepy and the curious the convention was a particularly target-rich…
One is tempted to say Donald J. Trump became the 47th President of the United States at 18:11 EDT on 13 July 2024. The image of him fist-pumping the air in bloodied defiance after the failed assassination attempt in Butler,…
The problem with British history, said Salman Rushdie, is that so much of it happened abroad. By way of revision, we might say that the problem with American politics today is that all of it is happening abroad. University campuses…
When in 2018 Donald Trump allegedly referred to Haiti as one of the world’s “shithole countries” from which immigration is per se undesirable, the deranged slogan “Haiti Is Great Already” promptly went viral on social media, turning up with clockwork…
