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British Journalist and Editor

Daniel Johnson

2 articles 2007–2011

Daniel Johnson is a British journalist, author, and commentator who founded the cultural and political magazine Standpoint in 2008. He has written extensively on European politics, foreign policy, and intellectual history. He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard on European affairs and international relations.

Friends Indeed

December 12, 2011 · Jews, England, Gertrude Himmelfarb

In the last words of this book, the author quotes her brother Milton Himmelfarb in one of his last essays: “Hope is a Jewish virtue.” Nobody embodies that virtue more felicitously than Gertrude Himmelfarb, who over a long and fruitful life of scholarship has given hope to all who have encountered…