Author Archive
Jonathan Foreman
The School Runners
A 2015 exposé on the Buzzfeed website created a stir by savaging the notion that the massive expansion of education in Afghanistan has been one...
Jeremy Corbyn and the End of the West
In October 2015, the American novelist Jonathan Franzen gave a talk in London in which he expressed pleasure that Jeremy Corbyn had just been elected...
Britain’s Heart of Darkness
A scandal involving rape, ethnicity, religion, and the willful failure of Britain’s public authorities to protect thousands of girls from horrific exploitation has become international...
The Twitter Hypocrisy of Kenneth Roth
It is not yet clear if Twitter, the social-media site whose users send out 140-character mini-statements, is generally good or bad for public life, or...
The Good News from Afghanistan
Everybody knows the war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost. —Leonard Cohen Everyone knows that there has been no progress and no development in Afghanistan, that...
The High Tea Party
It takes a lot to intimidate David Cameron, the ultra-confident “modernizing” leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. After all, he took in his stride the surprising humiliation...
The Decline and Fall of the BBC
Admired around the world, and nowhere more than in the upper reaches of the American media, the British Broadcasting Corporation has long enjoyed the unstinting...
Dirty Hari
This year saw two major scandals in the British media. The one that received the most attention concerned cell-phone “hacking” by a private detective hired...