The Sunday Times

...The Bush-Rove Republicans have already shifted from the broader Reagan coalition of libertarians, anticommunists, moral traditionalists and tax cutters to one that is rooted in the South and skewed towards the rural heartland. They are losing the educated elites at a fast clip, accelerated by Barack Obama’s class appeal. What some younger conservatives now want is to capitalise on this and take it one step further.

That’s the central thrust of a book just out, Grand New Party, by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam. The title is a… more

An article published recently in The New Republic, the American journal, by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank – both respected experts on terrorism – outlined a radical change in thinking on Al-Qaeda’s strategy among some of the most respected thinkers in the Islamist world.

For the first time, they reported, men whose previous pronouncements had been used as a justification for jihad were speaking out against it. They were not embracing the West, by any means, but they were questioning the… more