Mr Podhoretz parted ideological company with them as he gradually metamorphosed from a left-winger into a cold-war warrior and Reaganite fellow-traveller, and he cannot now forgive them for failing to follow where he led.

ECONOMIST: New York opinion-makers

Many Democrats continue to pretend that Jack Kennedy was a paragon of family values and Harvard-Yard liberalism rather than a womanising cold warrior.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Perhaps it should serve as a healthy cold shower for any modern civilisational warrior who sets out to present the course of history as a simple tug-of-war between Christianity and Islam.

ECONOMIST: The Crimean war