The Iconoclast

US/Canada Relations: Conrad M. Black with Raymond Arroyo

Oh Please! An American ERA Amendment Now?
By Phyllis Chesler Biden and the Democrats have just sold Israel down the river–but they’ve also just gone and ratified the Equal Rights Amendment–long after the clock ran down on […]

The carbon tax gone crazy
By William Corden I just got my latest monthly heating bill. Here’s a copy of it Actual cost of gas was $56 Carbon tax $102 Meantimes they don’t have carbon […]

Joe Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy “Achievements”
By Victor Davis Hanson Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America’s stature abroad. In his now […]

‘What do you mean?!’ Khan won’t say if grooming gangs roam London in heated City Hall exchange
I’m not the only one sure that something nasty must be happening in London, a city of 8 million people over half of whom are of immigrant ethnic background. Readers […]

The Muslim Brotherhood relies on the West’s self-censorship, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In The Telegraph Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan speak to one of the most important global voices on radical Islam and grooming gangs Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an author and […]

Politically Incorrect Comedy Still Survives
By Bruce Bawer At CNN, the biggest annual tradition is its several-hours-long New Year’s Eve celebration. It used to star prime-time news anchor Anderson Cooper and one of his bosom […]

Why not bring the world under America’s constitutional umbrella?
From Geoffrey Clarfield from the American Thinker If you read this playful and creative article with proper intent, there is kernel of a fine idea that begins with the US, […]

Confessions of a Middle East Ceasefire-ophrenic
By Roger L Simon Let me begin with an understatement. It will be an interesting time to be visiting Israel. Sheryl and I will be arriving at Ben Gurion Airport […]

Eat A Falafel And Stand With The Jews
By Ehud Neor Every year as January 18th approaches I revisit the story of David “Dugo” Leitner, of blessed memory, whose personal observance on that date became an Israeli-wide tradition, […]

Contributions of Western Colonialism to Human Flourishing: A Research Bibliography
By Bruce Gilley I have released today Version 5.0 of my Contributions of Western Colonialism to Human Flourishing: A Research Bibliography, first issued in 2018 in response to the “there […]

Grilling Hegseth: Democrats Expose Their Spiteful Hypocrisy
By Bruce Bawer How bizarre it was to watch Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, being abused at his confirmation hearing by the Democratic members of the Senate Armed […]

In Scandinavia, the Elites Freak Out about Trump’s Designs on Greenland. Or pretend to.
By Bruce Bawer This is about Scandinavia, but let’s start with the Anglosphere. The other day, on his Talk TV show Piers Morgan Uncensored, the eponymous host discussed various topics with a […]

A Deal With Terrorists What Is at Stake?
By Phyllis Chesler A deal for a ceasefire and for the slow release of Israeli hostages and a quick release of hundreds, if not a thousand Palestinian terrorists, is upon […]

Ouch! All at Sea
By Reg Green In the overcrowded race for the most bumbling comment on the California forest fires, here’s one from the U.S. National Weather Service: “We’re not out of the […]

Trump remembers Reagan: let the hostages go or ‘Hell to pay’
By Conrad Black Despite the slightly pathetic effort of the departing Biden regime to claim that it is the diligence of the president and his secretary of state that has […]