The Iconoclast
The Rogue’s New Gallery of Left-Wing Scoundrels
By Victor Davis Hanson The entire career of race-baiter Al Sharpton was founded on falsehoods about the Tawana Brawley scam. Nearly everything the left told us about the Trayvon Martin […]
Why I Watch Michael Kitchen in Foyle’s War
By Phyllis Chesler Our world is completely upside down; some American politicians absolutely insist that the ongoing riots in LA are “peaceful” when every night, I see with my own […]
Ukraine War Heads in a Dangerous New Direction
By Victor Davis Hanson Let’s look at an update of the Ukraine war. Remember, it’s now gone on for over three years. And we had pretty much discussed the contours […]
Merz rejects anti-Semitism, yet his policy would leave Hamas in power
By Conrad Black The new German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, made an excellent impression in Washington last week. He thoughtfully presented President Trump with an exact copy of the birth certificate […]
Fight or Flight?
On both sides of the Atlantic, life turns darker for Jews By Bruce Bawer In France, vandals deface the Holocaust Memorial along with several other Jewish sites in Paris – a city […]
Biden Dismantled Basic Immigration Law. Now, Americans Are Suffering.
By Victor Davis Hanson Immigration is not just back in the news, it’s in the news every single day. Almost every single day we see someone here illegally like Mohamed […]
The G7 Summit in Canada Will Be an Unusually Interesting One
By Conrad Black The G7 meeting next week in Kananaskis, Alberta, could be an unusually interesting discussion by the standards of that group. The first modern leaders’ summit was the […]
All members of the CDC advisory committee on vaccination have been fired
By Petr Chylek On June 10, 2025, POLITICO published a portion of an email sent to all 17 members of the CDC’s (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) vaccination advisory […]
Why I Can’t Read the Newspapers Anymore
By Eric Rozenman Who can forget where he or she was when news struck of the decision by retired English journalist John Richards to close the Apostrophe Protection Society? Who […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Report on the Treatment of Gender Dysphoria and Why You Should Care
By Armando Simón So many things occurred in the past month that went against the contrary to leftist totalitarianism and, therefore, were suppressed as usual by the leftist media hivemind. […]
CODEPINK = CODE-RED
By Phyllis Chesler Alice Schwarzer, the leading feminist of Germany and the founder of EMMA magazine, introduced the German edition of Women and Madness way back in the early nineteen-seventies. Over the years, I’ve […]
A Tribute to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo & his Unique Courageous Support For America’s beleaguered Allies, the Kurds…
By Gerald A. Honigman I was recently alerted to an important essay dealing with America’s 40 million truly stateless allies in the Middle East, who have far less negative moral […]
Ouch! Counter Jumping
By Reg Green The Ukrainian Counter-Disinformation Center spoke yesterday of the importance of the drone strikes deep inside Russia. The Russian Counter-Counter-Disinformation Center is expected to deny the drones’ effectiveness. The response […]
Trump’s Tariffs, Without Shortages and Inflation, Are Emerging as a Bigger Story Than the Departure of Elon Musk
By Conrad Black The noisy departure of Elon Musk from the administration is a matter of infinitely small importance. It will not last much longer as the subject of fervent […]
Gavin Newsom’s ‘Reckless’ Surrender of LA to Foreign National Riots
By Victor Davis Hanson This weekend we saw rioting in Los Angeles against Immigration and Customs Enforcement for its efforts to apprehend illegal aliens and employers who were hiring illegal aliens. […]
London-based ‘Hamas operative’ behind Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla
From the Telegraph A man accused of being “a Hamas operative” based in London is a key figure behind Greta Thunberg’s Gaza-bound aid boat, it emerged on Monday. Zaher Birawi, […]
