In the Sleep of Reason, Monsters are Born

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column:

 

The likely next President of the USA has his mugshot taken as he faces racketeering charges. He doesn���t care. He is not ashamed to be put through a procedure designed to humiliate him. The current President of Russia makes little effort to pretend that he had nothing to do with the violent death of his enemy. He too does not care. By 2025 it is quite possible that both these men will have control over huge nuclear arsenals. One of them alread...