Alan Johnson Articles

Alan Johnson finds Richard Reeves and Philip Collins’ liberal republicanism an inadequate foundation on which to renew social democracy

Learning the lessons of Iraq in an open and transparent public inquiry could have begun the work of restoring trust

In Progress magazine (‘Foreign Affairs,’ September 2008) Ken Gude,
the Associate Director of the George Soros-funded Center for American
Progress, trashed the idea of a league or ‘concert’ of democracies as
nothing but ‘a neoconservative dream,’ which would ‘undermine the UN’
and ‘re-ignite great power conflict’. The idea, he wrote, was part of
John McCain’s ‘dangerous quest’ for ‘new conflicts’ and ‘wars in the
Middle East’.

The genius of the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi was, as Norman Geras
observed , to use ‘common experience to illuminate the experience of
the Nazi universe of death, and vice versa’.