The Iconoclast

Liberals must retreat from their climate obsessions
By Conrad Black We are now close to the litmus test of the new Carney government as it approaches the bifurcation between the road to sensible fiscal and environmental policy […]

John Brennan’s Checkered Past Comes Back to Haunt Him Amid DOJ Investigation
By Victor Davis Hanson Recently, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump Department of Justice have said they are running an investigation into James Comey’s and John Brennan’s careers as the respective FBI director […]

University of California Bans BDS
By Gary Fouse There hasn’t been much positive news coming out of the University of California and its satellite campuses lately, but this is a step in the right direction. […]

How the Left Lost Its Collective Mind
By Victor Davis Hanson Across the political Left, from orthodox Democrats to Antifa in the streets, the opposition to President Donald Trump has lost its collective mind. The Democrat House minority leader […]

The Taliban Has Many Faces in the West
By Phyllis Chesler On July 7th, nearly four years after America left Afghanistan and the Taliban took it over, the United Nations has “called on” the Taliban to “end their repressive policies” […]

Rotherham police accused of preparing false document after father arrested while attempting to rescue daughter from grooming gangs
From GB News Police officers incorrectly produced a custody sheet for an arrest that never happened, according to the father of a grooming gangs’ victim. He believes the records may […]

The Disappearing of Women Psychoanalytic Theorists by Men and Faux-Feminists
By Phyllis Chesler Many moons ago, I sent my response to Dr. Inna Rozentsvit at Clio’s Psyche–a most fascinating journal of psychoanalysis. It has just now been published. I obtained permission […]

Zohran Mamdani’s Skeletons Are Coming Out of the Closet
By Victor Davis Hanson We’ve talked before about the front-runner in the New York mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani. And we’ve mentioned before that he talked about “seizing the means of production,” which comes […]

Iran tried to kill or kidnap Jews in Britain
From the Telegraph Iran has targeted “prominent Jewish individuals” among at least 15 attempts to kill or kidnap people in Britain, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has warned. A report […]

The Roots of Leftist Rage
By Victor Davis Hanson Across the political left, from orthodox Democrats to Antifa in the streets, the opposition to Trump has lost its collective mind. The House minority leader and […]

Remembering 7/7 – The Wrong Way
Twenty years after the jihadist atrocity, Britain is more cowed than ever by Islam. By Bruce Bawer America had 9/11. Four years later, Britain had 7/7, a multi-pronged jihadist assault […]

Further to a piece by Dr Dalrymple
By William Corden I had the misfortune this week to visit our very own Vancouver Courthouse complex. Probably even worse than Boston’s City hall, its interior is like Hitler’s bunker, […]

Leftists Embrace Sedition and Insurrection as Democrats Lose Power
By Victor Davis Hanson We’ve talked in the past a lot about the unfortunate turn to the hard Left that Democrats have made. But in the last week, it’s become […]

No decline in the US, it leads the West
By Conrad Black As regular readers will have noticed, I have often dissented from the widespread view, generally uttered with a rather irritating attitude of resignation, that the West is […]

Trump’s Not an Autocrat. He’s Following Precedents Set by Obama, Biden.
By Victor Davis Hanson I usually don’t give advice to President Donald Trump, who knows much more about politics, obviously, than most of us. But I think he could use maybe […]

The Architecture of Arrogance
By Theodore Dalrymple Tyler Syck makes an eloquent plea in these pages for modern architecture. A civilization as advanced as ours ought to be able to develop an architectural style […]