Once again, Israel appears to have ignored Washington’s advice. Once again, that decision has paid off.

He's back. Donald Trump, that is. Only weeks ago he was behind in the polls and being left for dust in the fundraising stakes. Now the race is too close to call - and he has the momentum. No wonder the Democrats are scaremongering. The fact that Kamala Harris has resorted to playing the Hitler card is a sign of desperation, so I'll go ahead and say it. She's losing this election.

The world is beginning to wake up to simmering anti-Semitism and rising Islamic extremism after the events of October 7, 2023, and all humanity - not just Jewish people - must be alert to the threat, one of the globe's most respected historians has warned.

To make proper sense of the bloody events of the past 12 months in the Middle East, I had to go to Vilnius. That may strike you as bizarre, as Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania and roughly 1,600 miles from Tel Aviv. But Vilnius was once “the Jerusalem of the North”—that’s what Napoleon called it when he passed through in 1812.

At home, the left sees him as cynical, conniving and corrupt; while the right sees him as tired, weak and unambitious. Abroad, he is almost universally loathed and distrusted. And yet no one can deny his Machiavellian mastery of the dirty game of politics, domestic and international. Modern history has produced only two figures who fit this description. The first is Germany’s Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. The second is Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. For Bibi – his nickname and the title of his recent autobiography – read Bibismarck.

Why any UK institution would want to follow Harvard down the path to ridicule is beyond my comprehension. Perhaps a sociologist will one day be able to explain this folly.

There might be something scarier than German power. That’s German weakness in this dangerous moment for Europe—and the free world.

“I will probably be the first British historian in history to say this, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear its inactivity,” writes Niall Ferguson for The Free Press.

Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious.

Three years ago, the University of Austin was announced in these pages. Yesterday, the school welcomed the class of 2028. This is what the president told them.