Ed West

The Political Gene
by Dennis Sewell
Picador, £16.99
Between 1915 and 1919 a leading Chicago surgeon, Harry Haiselden, quite openly and publicly allowed six infants in his care to die, in one case actively killing the child. The justification was that his victims were “hereditarily unfit”. But rather than being arrested or vilified, Dr Haiselden became a cause [...]

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From the Catholic Herald. Ed West meets the academic who predicts that the future will be dominated by radical religious groups

One reviewer of Eric Kaufmann’s book, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, wrote that it would “send Richard Dawkins on to antidepressants”. Which may sound encouraging, but if Kaufmann’s fascinating and rather disturbing thesis [...]

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At 20 the National Front’s youth leader was sent to jail. Today Joseph Pearce is a leading Catholic writer.
From The Catholic herald 
Joseph Pearce is a happy man. He is one of the leading Catholic biographers in the English-speaking world, and his studies of Tolkien, Solzhenitsyn, C S Lewis, Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare, among others, have [...]

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From The Catholic Herald
It is only October and already the newspapers are publishing round-ups of the first decade of the 21st century, an era that we’ve never satisfactorily found a name for – I for one could never bring myself to say “Noughties” without smiling inanely, for some reason.
So unless aliens invade between now and [...]

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The Patriarch of Jerusalem tells Ed West that the only thing that will keep the faithful in the Holy Land is a lasting peace
25 September 2009
‘Thank you for this interview, I hope you can help us through your good influence on the news,” says the man opposite me, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
It’s not often one [...]

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With post-Christian Europe facing demographic disaster,Ed West speaks to the unlikely American prophet of our doom11 September 2009
 
There is a spectre haunting Europe, the spectre of empty maternity wards and closed-down schools. Europe is dying - its people have lost confidence in themselves and choose a life of pleasure-seeking over procreation.
And for four decades they have [...]

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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL PENGUIN, £14.99 
You might not hear about this book much in the next month, nor even in the next year, but it will affect your life in some way, and that of our country and continent. 
Christopher Caldwell is a mildmannered Financial Times journalist who over the past decade [...]

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Catholic Herald Notebook, August 21
This week sees two important anniversaries relating to that glorious year, 1989: the election of Poland’s first non-Communist prime minister since the Second World War, and Hungary opening its border to Austria, signalling the first physical dismantling of the Iron Curtain. 
It was an awesome autumn, the first great counter-revolution in European [...]

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Ed West travels to Brighton to meet the people at the sharp end of Britain’s homelessness crisis 
‘I know homeless people who’ve taken a beating. Sometimes it’s from other homeless people and sometimes it’s from people just on their way home. It’s scandalous that poverty is seen as something only in developing nations; it’s true, Africa does [...]

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Ed West discusses faith, feminism and Dawkins with the author of this summer’s most talked-about religious novel 
7 August 2009
The Catholic Herald 
For the first time in about seven years the most talked-about religious novel of the summer is not one of the Da Vinci Code’s step-children about conspiracies and lost arks, but a story set in the [...]

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