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
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape