Robert Wargas, Author at Catholic Herald

Robert Wargas

Trump won over voters exactly where he needed them – and many were Catholics

November 14, 2016

In swing states where Romney lost, Trump's economic programme had mass appeal

How did Trump pull it off? He appealed to the voters the Establishment had forgotten

November 10, 2016

Many Rust Belt workers are registered Democrats. But Trump spoke to their disaffection

Inside the Democrats’ Trojan Horse

October 20, 2016

You wouldn’t expect Hillary Clinton’s staff and senior supporters to think very highly of conservative Catholics. But reading their own words, when they don’t think anyone else will ever see them, is still jarring. “Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) … They must be attracted to

Inside the Democrats’ Trojan Horse

October 20, 2016

Leaked emails show that Clinton’s right-hand man helped create Catholic front groups to inspire ‘revolution’. The fall-out is only just beginning

The anxious world of Turkey’s Catholics

August 11, 2016

In 2010, the Austrian politician Ewald Stadler delivered a rousing speech from the floor of the National Council in Vienna. For more than eight minutes, he harangued the Turkish ambassador, who was present in the chamber, for complaining about the treatment of Turks in Austria. Listing ignored crimes against Catholic clergy in the ambassador’s homeland

A complacent elite is to blame for politics being turned upside down

July 15, 2016

The way we think of left and right is a relic of the Cold War. Reality is catching up

Politics turned upside down

July 14, 2016

New York I wouldn’t be the first to observe that Donald Trump never uses the words “freedom” or “liberty”. In the United States, a Republican presidential candidate who avoids those terms – someone who doesn’t gloss every speech with talk of shining cities on hills – is like a baker who doesn’t use flour. Trump

Reason is the loser in our political age of overblown symbolism

June 28, 2016

Last week's gun control sit-in highlights how one side of the culture war has successfully linked its opinions to the most contentious periods in US history

Student radicalism like Yale’s ‘decolonisation’ helped pave the way for Donald Trump

June 10, 2016

Yale has responded diplomatically to student demands. But the wider attack on traditional Western culture should be resisted

Transgender toilets are a reality shock for the Left, and the stress is showing

June 03, 2016

The latest skirmish has revealed the inner contradictions of identity politics

Why Catholics thrive in the CIA

May 05, 2016

Just a few days before Christmas 1988, terrorists blew up Pan American Flight 103 as it passed over Lockerbie, not long after leaving Heathrow. One of the 259 murdered onboard was Matthew Gannon. The eighth child of devout Catholic parents, Gannon had joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1977, becoming a skilled operations officer and

Why Catholics thrive in the CIA

May 05, 2016

The agency has been dubbed ‘Catholics In Action’ because the faithful have occupied so many senior positions. But could their dominance be weakening?

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