The Iconoclast

Just like real life .. an ungrateful friend
By Bill Corden We’ve all been through it in our lifetimes, you help someone out maybe by lending them money or helping them when they go through troubled times, or […]

Eleanor Williams: The teenager who faked a grooming scandal also named real abusers
Readers might well remember the strange case of Ellie Williams the young girl from Barrow-in-Furness who was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment in March 2023 for perverting the Course of […]

USAID Funneled $122 Million to Charities Tied to Designated Terrorists, Congressional Testimony Reveals
By Geoffrey Clarfield, From National Review The now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development has funneled at least $122 million in approved grants to terror-tied aid charities, including an evangelical Christian group that […]

J.D. Vance has plenty to learn — about manners, statecraft, and Russo-Ukrainian culture
By Lev Tsitrin A mere 3 weeks ago President Trump was asked, by a FOX reporter, a seemingly tricky question: “Do you view Vice President J.D. Vance as your […]

The Forever Holocaust
By Bruce Bawer I’ve read more than my share of books about antisemitism. I even reviewed one of them here at FrontPage twelve years ago. Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives was a collection of nineteen essays edited […]

The Left’s DOGE Tantrum
By Victor Davis Hanson There’s been a lot of commotion lately about the Elon Musk cuts and the Donald Trump rebranding of the entire administrative state and bureaucracy. It’s very strange that […]

Crimes of Punishment
By Theodore Dalrymple Notwithstanding their evident differences, Britain and France are very similar in their juridico-political idiocies. Perhaps idiocy is not quite the right word, insofar as there might be […]

Eat it, Europe
By Bruce Bawer Are you old enough to recognize the name of James Taylor? He’s a singer-songwriter, now 76 years old. Among his hits are “Fire and Rain” (1970) and […]

Good life [as an immigrant] for me, but not for thee: prosperous US Arabs would rather have Gaza’s Arabs live in misery
by Lev Tsitrin I hesitate to say which is more ridiculous, NPR’s asking US Arabs’ (who after all are, by definition, emigrants whose priority, evidenced in the very fact of […]

Teenage girl became ‘used to being used as a sex thing’, Rochdale abuse trial told
“All these men knew I was underage,” Girl A said From the Manchester Evening News The trial of eight men, accused of a series of sexual offences allegedly committed against […]

Reining In District Courts
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds A possible solution to lawfare: Back to the future? We’ve seen a lot of single-judge national injunctions in the last month. These will, for the most […]

Behind Jeff Bezos’ Changes at Washington Post
By Roger L Simon Mayday! Mayday! That sky is falling (not)! The Washington Post staff is exploding (yes)! Big changes are coming to their left-leaning opinion page—and maybe more (hope […]

Not in London
Newsreel of the funeral of the Bibas family in Israel yesterday was very moving, to see the crowds respectfully lining the streets and the orange balloons for all the hostages, […]

Who Caused the Counter-Revolution?
By Victor Davis Hanson At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have […]

This 2013 Interview Foresaw the Tragic Plight of Afghan Women Today
By Phyllis Chesler “The day after America leaves, every shelter for battered women, every school for girls, every hospital that admits women will be shut down with a vengeance. So […]

Germany’s Election Results and the Marginalized Conservatives
By Victor Davis Hanson There were elections recently in Germany. And as many people and pollsters had predicted, the conservative parties, and there are two of them, won nearly, almost, 50% […]