Americans are in many ways more divided today than they were in 1860. Restoring American unity amidst the current rancour sounds almost comically impossible. Writing in the Claremont Review of Books, Michael Anton lays out an ambitious program for reuniting Americans, focused on a working-class that has been abandoned by both parties.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


