
John O'Sullivan discusses conservatism and Trump, touching on various political and social issues.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com (The full Dish is on vacation until Friday, September 4. This week’s episode was recorded on July 21.) John is a journalist and political commentator. He’s the founder and president of the Danube Institute, the international editor of Quadrant Magazine, associate editor of the Hungarian Review, former editor of National Review, a fellow of the National Review Institute, and editor-at-large of National Review. He’s the author of several books, including Sleepwalking Into Wokeness . For two clips of the episode — on falling birth rates and immigration, and comparing Thatcher and Reagan — head to our YouTube page . Other topics: growing up Catholic in Liverpool; his working-class parents; his dad on a hospital ship for D-Day; stories of John working closely with Thatcher; both of us British editors of US magazines in the early ‘90s; covering The Bell Curve ; the Cold War and defeating the Soviets; muscular liberalism; Tony Blair and his tensions with Bush; what it means to be a conservative liberal; cosmopolitanism; the meaning of Englishness; oikophobia; multiculturalism; the World Cup; Trump…
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