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 Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys