Another Country

Adam Shatz: Visions of America, 5 February 2026

... expanding boundary. Grandin quotes a letter Clare Boothe Luce sent in the 1940s to her husband, Henry, the publisher of Time, in which she wrote that, with the end of the country’s territorial expansion, America could survive as a nation only by preserving its ‘racial and cultural homogeneity’ with ‘strict barriers against further immigrations of ...

Stuck on the Flypaper

Frances Stonor Saunders: The Hobsbawm File, 9 April 2015

... to Middlesex Special Branch, whose investigations revealed it to be the residence of his uncle Henry, a postal worker, who ‘has been described by a reliable informant as a sneering, critical type of person, harsh of speech, half Jew in appearance … [and] believed to be an energetic communist’ (he was in fact a longstanding Labour councillor). From ...

The Israel Lobby

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, 23 March 2006

... East Policy (WINEP); Dennis Ross, who joined WINEP after leaving government in 2001; and Aaron Miller, who has lived in Israel and often visits the country. These men were among Clinton’s closest advisers at the Camp David summit in July 2000. Although all three supported the Oslo peace process and favoured the creation of a Palestinian state, they did ...