The Iconoclast
Cute Force
By Theodore Dalrymple One of the characteristics of the present age, no doubt a consequence of the expansion of tertiary education beyond the capacity of people to benefit from it, […]
Rochdale rape and abuse trial continues as eight men accused of treating two girls as ‘sex slaves’
For some reason the jury was discharged earlier this week and a new one sworn in and the trial started again. It probably isn’t for any significant reason. The Manchester […]
Rolling Back DEI: Resisting Forced Equality
By Theodore Dalrymple Equality of opportunity is to modern political thought what deliciousness is to food: everyone is for it, no one is against it. And yet, if everyone took […]
Where the Wind Blows Across Sage
By Carl Nelson The farm we were homesteading in the Columbia Basin in the ‘50s was a designated 180 acre plat in square miles of desert sage brush and cheat […]
Israeli tourists required to disclose IDF service before entering country
By Geoffrey Clarfield It is well known that New Zealand was among the most pernicious and woke countries during and after the Covid pandemic, when their cultural Marxism and anti Zionism […]
The Fishing Place: A Marvel of a Movie
By Bruce Bawer Until the other day, I was unfamiliar with the work of Rob Tregenza, a Kansas-born, UCLA-educated filmmaker who has written, directed, and photographed five pictures. Reviewing the […]
Koran burner Salwan Momika shot dead in Södertälje Sweden
This is breaking news this morning in both the Swedish and the international press. The BBC, the Swedish edition of the Local Expressen (for which I am using Google translate […]
Mexico—Friend, Enemy, Neutral, or Something Else?
By Victor Davis Hanson Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and […]
The Big Guy’s Treason
By Bruce Bawer Miranda Devine delivers the definitive account of the Biden crime family. To me it was obvious from the start that claims about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, […]
Ouch! You Don’t Have To Be Rude About It ‘
By Reg Green Fed Stands Pat on Interest Rates,’ a Wall St. Journal headline said on Wednesday. I wonder how many minds, like mine, flew across the years to Jackie […]
Unauthorised anti-Israel adverts and posters on London underground.
Transport for London say that this latest stunt will be taken down. And the artist responsible for the art-work (installation may be by others) is quite open about his work […]
Caravan of explosives set for Jewish synagogue attack found in Sydney – as NSW Police launch major investigation
From the Daily Telegraph and 9 News photograph from Daily Mail Australia A potential anti-Semitic terror attack has been foiled after a caravan laden with explosives and a note with the […]
Trump hits Davos with nationalist capitalism, chastened elite forced to accept
By Conrad Black Speaking from the White House, President Trump last week sounded a stirring tocsin of nationalist capitalism to the usual audience in the grim Swiss mountain town of […]
Why the Long Tyranny of ‘Wokeness’ Is on the Way Out
By Conrad Black The neutral-to-positive reception given President Trump’s video address to the Davos conference last week confirms that the long tyranny of wokeness, political correctness, affirmative action, aggressive restraints […]
Our Ivory Tower Enemies
By Bruce Bawer In the hours before Donald Trump took the oath of office for the second time, I was busy gnashing my teeth over an article in Norway’s newspaper […]
Melania: A Review
By Armando Simón I bought Melania, Mrs. Trump’s autobiography, for my wife as one of her Christmas presents. Like myself, I admire the First Lady’s breathtaking outfits, her obvious beauty, […]
