The Iconoclast

More on Nihilism’s Passionate Contradiction
By William Corden It’s worth commenting on Larry McCloskey’s recent essay in this month’s issue as he came very close to putting his finger right on the button of today’s […]

Ten Tariff Questions Never Asked
By Victor Davis Hanson 1.Trump’s So-Called “Trade War.” Many call the American effort to obtain either tariff parity or a reduction in the roughly $1 trillion trade deficit and fifty years […]

Approval of Stamps
By Theodore Dalrymple A French antiquarian bookseller from whom I buy books from time to time sends them to me through the post with old-fashioned postage stamps on the packet. […]

Mark Carney says he’s ‘aware’ of Gaza ‘genocide,’ backs Israeli arms embargo
By Geoffrey Clarfield This is from Post Millenial Canadian News yesterday. In my opinion Mark Carney is a clear outspoken enemy of Israel and a friend of Communist China. Liberal […]

Violence by Transgenders Proves Biology Persists ~ Boys Will Be Boys
By Armando Simón Fencing is my favorite sport and it is one of those sports that does not get the same amount of publicity as other sports. During the […]

Leaving Egypt in Haste Again
By Phyllis Chesler We once left Egypt in haste–and this is now being written in haste. But how can I leave Egypt? I am in the midst of writing a […]

Does Political Ideology Without Religion Beget Violence?
By Roger L Simon I generally distrust polls. As CEO of a small media company I was in a position to order them and it quickly became clear how easily […]

Hamas uses ECHR to challenge terror group status
Riverway Law sound like a right bunch of Fifth Columnists. They describe themselves as “a niche immigration and nationality law practice . . . Our mission is to secure people’s […]

Defending Disney
By Bruce Bawer A Guardian contributor celebrates the cultural and fiscal disaster that is Hollywood wokeness. Jeff Wang – a name previously unfamiliar to me – begins his recent Guardian op-ed with an […]

Why Is Wall Street Panicking?
By Victor Davis Hanson Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal, speaking on a Monday that the market’s gone down 300 points. It’s about where we were […]

The Psychology Behind the Tesla Attacks: Just Look to History
By Armando Simón Many have noted the irony of the fact that for years Musk and Tesla were sanctified by leftists because they advocated electric cars and Musk delivered in spades […]

Shopkeeper accused of raping girl in store basement says he never went there ‘as it was full of rubbish’
After a couple of weeks of the prosecution case interspersed with legal arguments the Manchester Evening News has two reports of the current rape gang trial at Crown Court Minshull […]

Pumping Iron
By Bruce Bawer Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives By Michael Joseph Gross (Dutton, 480 pages, $35) I was never an athlete. Or at least I never […]

Trump works a political miracle in Downing Street
By Conrad Black Obscured by the deafening cacophony of incomprehension about a number of the policy innovations of the Trump administration, there are some refreshing signs of progress. The movement […]

What Would It Take to Destroy the United States?
By Victor Davis Hanson I was looking at the news this week and I thought of an experiment. What if you really wanted to destroy the United States? What if […]

Labour ABANDONS plans for five local grooming gang inquiries
From GB News Labour has dropped plans for grooming gang inquiries, making the announcement on the final day before Parliament breaks up for Easter recess. In January, Home Secretary Yvette […]