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Articles by Matthew Hefler
Inside Trump’s American regime change
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, £28 Ghengis Khan. Adolf Hitler. Alexander the Great. President Donald Trump relished an assessment that compared him to such historical figures and framed him as the most powerful man ever to live. He made no moral distinctions between the persons mentioned, whether Julius Caesar or Joseph Stalin, and savoured seeing his name atop a pantheon of epoch-defining leaders.
Josephine Baker's secret war
Josephine Baker was famous long before she was a spy. The Missouri native was a celebrated singer and dancer in jazz-age Paris and made France her adopted country. Yet it was her clandestine work gathering information on Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy that earned her the Légion d’honneur and a place in the Pantheon.
An attack on US intelligence
Donald Trump is a master of shaping the political narrative, but his focus on messaging is one reason for his poor relationship with the United States’ intelligence community. Recent disputes over Iran show how the latter can be a problem for Trump – as a source of evidence that can undermine his message. In order to preserve his narratives on Iran, the president risks politicising the American intelligence community, which can undermine national security.
Forget booing the anthem, Canada must employ strategic communications to fight Trump’s lies Original
Since his return to office, United States President Donald Trump has launched a trade war on Canada. The White House has twice set deadlines for the imposition of sweeping 25 pre cent tariffs — and twice pulled back. Trump has also threatened to use “economic force” to compel Canada to become the 51st state, remarks that are a focal point of the ongoing federal election campaign. Canadians are offended.
The Suez Canal Purchase and the making of modern Britain
The purchase of the Suez Canal by British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli was presented in contemporary press reports as a uniquely patriotic and liberal move, one that cemented the country’s place in a shifting, Europe-dominated world order. The Suez Canal opened in 1869 under the ownership of French financiers and the khedive of Egypt, and connected the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.
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