Douglas Murray

London, New York

Author, Political Commentator, and Associate Editor at The Spectator

#1 bestselling author of 8 books including 'On Democracies and Death Cults'. @Spectator. Columnist @NYPost. Senior Fellow @ManhattanInst

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Articles

Richard Hermer’s campaign against Britain

2 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Douglas Murray

Five years ago, the man who is now Lord Hermer gave an interview to the Times. The then QC was asked how he’d want to be remembered. The answer he gave was curious.
Richard Hermer’s campaign against Britain

2 days ago | spectator.com.au | Douglas Murray

Five years ago, the man who is now Lord Hermer gave an interview to the Times. The then QC was asked how he’d want to be remembered. The answer he gave was curious.
The Critic’s Notebook

3 days ago | newcriterion.com | Robert Erickson |Douglas Murray |Suzanna Murawski |Emma Richards

Nonfiction:Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney (Bloomsbury): The peak of Babeldom was probably realized during the Neolithic Age, “the moment in the human story,” as Laura Spinney notes in her new book Proto, “when more languages were spoken than at any other”—when a worldwide population in the tens of millions talked in as many as fifteen thousand different tongues.
The derangement of Harvard

3 days ago | thespectator.com | Douglas Murray |Douglas Murray

It is 60 years since William F. Buckley said he would “rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.” Yet even the godfather of American conservatism would be surprised at how much more attractive the folks in the phone directory appear today. Harvard has recently been embroiled in a major row with Donald Trump’s administration.
“Week in review,” by Suzanna Murawski

1 week ago | newcriterion.com | Suzanna Murawski |Robert Erickson |Andrew Shea |Douglas Murray

Recent stories of note:“Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein”Matt Dinan, The Hedgehog ReviewWhen Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein was published twenty-five years ago, it was widely lambasted as, in the words of one critic, a “shockingly bad” memoir of “cruel violations” for revealing unsavory private details about the scholar Allan Bloom, upon whom the novel’s character Abe Ravelstein was based. But if you look a little closer, the correspondence is not so one-to-one.
Douglas Murray: Putin’s playbook is the same a quarter-century later — peace talks are pointless

1 week ago | nypost.com | Douglas Murray

President George W. Bush famously underestimated Vladimir Putin. Asked about his impressions of the Russian president after a brief meeting in 2001, the then-US president claimed that he had “looked into Putin’s eyes” and “saw his soul.”It is odd that Bush imagined he had some mystical ability to divine the soul of his Russian counterpart. His secretary of state, Colin Powell, had a different reaction.
The derangement of Harvard

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Douglas Murray

It is 60 years since William F. Buckley said that he would ‘rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University’. Yet even the godfather of American conservatism would be surprised at how much more attractive the folks in the phone directory appear today.
The Critic’s Notebook

1 week ago | newcriterion.com | Andrew Shea |Douglas Murray |Suzanna Murawski |Roger Kimball

Nonfiction:Gustav Mahler, by Stephen Downes (Reaktion Books):Goethe, Wagner, Nietzsche: these are fairly well-known influences on the music and thought of Gustav Mahler. Fewer know, I’d wager, that Mahler was an avid reader of Laurence Sterne’s digressive free-for-all Tristram Shandy, or of E. T. A. Hoffmann, whose Tomcat Murr is a similarly whimsical novel purporting to be the memoirs of a cat accidentally shuffled with a Mahleresque composer’s biography.
The derangement of Harvard

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Douglas Murray

It is 60 years since William F. Buckley said that he would ‘rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University’. Yet even the godfather of American conservatism would be surprised at how much more attractive the folks in the phone directory appear today. Harvard is currently having a major row with Donald Trump’s administration.
Douglas Murray: DC killings show how Americans are being incited to kill Jews by anti-Israel propaganda

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Douglas Murray

On Wednesday afternoon, Yaron Lischinsky was trying, as always, to fight lies. On social media he could be found pushing back against just one of the many big lies spread every day about the Jewish state. Specifically he was commenting on the UN Report which garnered headlines around the world.