Clarke Micah

1 month ago | compactmag.com | Clarke Micah |Peter Hitchens

Freedom: Memoirs 1954—2021by Angela MerkelSt. Martin’s Press, 720 pages, $40On a calm, cool September afternoon in 1939, an actual nightmare took solid form on the streets of the handsome town of Brest-Litovsk. I could say that Brest-Litovsk was in Poland, as it had been until that day. But it would not really be true. The town lies in those strange badlands where (if you are not murdered or deported by the latest invader) you may visit several countries in a lifetime without ever leaving home.

Mar 10, 2025 | compactmag.com | Clarke Micah |Peter Hitchens

Douglas Murray, the neoconservative writer, has launched an attack on the American right for its withdrawal of support from Ukraine. He accuses his targets of triviality, and of becoming bored with the war in Ukraine. He implies that they lack the moral disapproval of the Russian despotism that anyone who knows anything about it must feel. I suspect he is right about some Trump supporters. He may even be right about Trump himself. I have no way of knowing the president’s heart.