“You’re acting as if I’m old,” my mother said. “Mom, you are old!” My mother’s footsteps slowed beside mine as we walked through the Stanford campus. She looked crestfallen. Before you make assumptions about what a jerk I am, let me tell you that my mother is 85. A healthy 85, thank God, but 85…
Jewish people are living in fear – a fear that has been building for years but has become acute in recent weeks. It now seeps into every part of daily life: the school run, a walk down the high street, a meal in a restaurant, attending synagogue on Shabbat. Jewish friends and colleagues have spoken…
What would the founding fathers say? You can’t write about American independence, especially this year, without fielding that question in every variation. To which political party would George Washington belong? What would Ben Franklin think of the tech bros? How would John Adams feel about failing to land a role in “Hamilton”? What would Thomas…
On Friday, the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocked a Food and Drug Administration rule that allows doctors to prescribe the abortion pill mifepristone via telemedicine. The decision sends a clear message: No woman in America, no matter where she lives, has total control over whether to continue or end a…
President Trump is right to demand that Europe spend more on its own defense. But the Trump administration’s announcement on Friday that it would pull 5,000 U.S. troops out of Germany risks weakening one of America’s best strategic investments: a military presence that deters Russia and keeps Europe’s old rivalries from becoming America’s problem again….
“One day, this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we’ll be people again and not just Jews.” I keep coming back to those words from Anne Frank’s diary. They sum up what I feel as a British Jew and as the MP for the largest British Jewish community, in the face…
If you could interview Tucker Carlson, what would you ask? That’s no simple question. A successful interview is revealing, engaging, memorable. Mr. Carlson, one of America’s best-known conservative commentators, has answered a gazillion questions over the decades, and he’s skilled at not being pinned down when he doesn’t want to be. So how do you…
When you think of retirement, what comes to mind? Perhaps it is images of older people enjoying a well-deserved period of leisure and comfort in the final stretch of their lives. Cruise ships, garden centres, golf clubs and bungalows by the sea. The truth is that this image is now, in large part, the artefact…
Of the many jokes cracked by King Charles during his visit to Washington, the one recalling the definitive 18th-century Anglo-French contest for dominion over the New World was the most pointed. Speaking at a state banquet in the White House, Charles turned to Donald Trump and said: “You recently commented, Mr President, that if it…
If you spend enough time around the very rich these days, it’s clear. People didn’t look like this before because people naturally can’t look like this. Models in a Paris Fashion Week show for the luxury brand Matières Fécales last month caricatured the 1 percent by wearing prosthetics that resembled post-op faces, including grotesque under-eye…
