Dan Hannan

Daniel Hannan is a member of the House of Lords and a former Conservative MEP. Find him on X @DanielJHannan

We tell ourselves that we must uphold basic human rights in benighted parts of the world, but other countries might turn that logic against the West. (AP Photo)

The case against international human rights law

Dan Hannan · November 6, 2016 4:04 am

In the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Clinton leads with 48 percent support to Trump's 41 percent. (AP Photos)

Yes, politicians are lying more — voters demand it

Dan Hannan · October 31, 2016 4:04 am

Both sides of the Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton debate misunderstand, or affect to misunderstand, the Constitution. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

The Constitution is bigger than any politician

Dan Hannan · October 24, 2016 4:03 am

No one is even claiming to speak to or for mainstream Republican voters anymore. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

How should a conservative vote?

Dan Hannan · October 17, 2016 4:03 am

Come, American politicians: Think of the moral case for free trade. It is the ultimate instrument of poverty alleviation, conflict resolution and social justice. (AP Photo)

Will no American politician speak for free trade?

Dan Hannan · October 10, 2016 4:03 am

If I can put my kids into Sunday School during a church service, you can put yours in the Momentum creche. In the end, we have to trust young people to make up their own minds. (AP Photo)

Britain’s ‘Trot tots’

Dan Hannan · October 3, 2016 4:03 am

Our obsession with racism is less a response to external events than a state of mind, a determination to divide the world into victims and exploiters. Of course, there will always be victims: innocent men shot by cops, say. (AP Photo)

The racism of the anti-racists

Dan Hannan · September 26, 2016 4:04 am

When a gaffe isn’t a gaffe

Dan Hannan · September 19, 2016 4:04 am

After a century and a half of being solidly wrong, Karl Marx is being vindicated by loose monetary policy. (AP Photo)

All this money printing may finally be vindicating Marx

Dan Hannan · September 12, 2016 4:04 am

Destin Cramer, left, and Noah Rice place a new sticker on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale high school on May 17 in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Virtue signaling and the bathroom wars

Dan Hannan · September 6, 2016 4:01 am

Will banning burkinis soothe or inflame that sense of alienation? (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

The naked truth about the burkini ban

Dan Hannan · August 29, 2016 4:04 am

Donald Trump came late and malevolently into the Republican Party. It owes him nothing. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump will explode — Republicans take cover now

Dan Hannan · August 22, 2016 6:01 am