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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
