Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

The New York Post
2 May 2024

College idiots calling for ‘Intifada’ have no idea how many innocents have died from that word

This one is for the morons. For the students busily cosplaying at being terrorists on our city’s campuses. The automatons whose new radical-chic uniform is an Arab keffiyeh.

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The Free Press
28 April 2024

Allan Bloom on the ‘Charmed Years’ of College

In 1987, the political philosopher warned an audience of freshmen of the perils of not thinking for themselves.

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The Spectator
27 April 2024

Following Napoleon: my exile in St Helena

A lifesize statue of Napoleon stands on the balcony. It takes a few days to get used to him

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The Sun
26 April 2024

Americans realise freedom with the occasional bit of offence is OK – we seem to be going other way

Thanks to the first amendment, the right to freedom of speech has been enshrined in law from America’s founding

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The New York Post
25 April 2024

International Criminal Court’s vicious smear tactics against America’s allies

A British prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague called Karim Khan is going to try to bring a war-crimes case against an American ally.

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The Telegraph
25 April 2024

The BBC has gone to war on our civilisation

A new trigger warning on Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series reflects dangerous Western self-laceration

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The Free Press
21 April 2024

‘We Will Fight with Stones in Our Hands’

Months before Israel achieved independence in 1948, Golda Meir came to America, asking for help in the battle for survival.

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The Spectator
20 April 2024

The triumph of Katharine Birbalsingh

The school’s success is a rebuke to a whole class of malevolent or criminally inept educationalists

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The New York Post
18 April 2024

Fentanyl-laced drugs aren’t ‘someone else’s problem’

If this country is going to get serious about its epidemic of lost lives, perhaps we should think, “OK, maybe it won’t be you. But it could be someone you love. It could easily be someone you know.”

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The Free Press
14 April 2024

The Call to Take Up Arms Against Napoleon

In a 1799 speech, the British prime minister warned that ‘the monster’ could not be left ‘to prowl the world unopposed.’

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The Spectator
13 April 2024

Israel is running out of options

No one, left or right, would be doing anything different from what Netanyahu is doing now

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The New York Post
11 April 2024

City of Brotherly Love needs tough love to free it from scourge of tranq

It is to get the most lethal drugs on the streets of New York and “safe-use” sites had become magnets for dealers and addicts. Such sites are fought over. Do they help addicts use safely? Or do they normalize lethal behavior?

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