David J. Garrow
David J. Garrow’s books include Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017), Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (1994), and Bearing the Cross (1986), a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The unlikely miracle of Trump’s presidency
Trump’s inability to articulate any substantive thought renders a respected journalist’s new book unreadable
The man who exposed the watchers
David J. Garrow reviews Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State, by Barton Gellman
Obama’s airbrushed dreams
Original typscript reveals an insecure man racked by self-doubt
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors