The Iconoclast
How Trump Became an American Hero
By Bruce Bawer In my young adulthood — which, roughly speaking, spanned the decades between the Carter presidency and the dawn of the computer age — most Americans, it seemed […]
Despotic green policies lead to impoverishment and unemployment
By Conrad Black As many have predicted, including in this column, the economic terrorism of government green extremists in one country after another has succeeded in splitting their left-wing constituencies […]
What Are We Doing to Children?
By Theodore Dalrymple The U.K. finally puts the brakes on gender medicine. A few years before the Covid pandemic, the Irish state television network (RTÉ) asked me to appear in a […]
Top 10 Books on European Colonialism
By Bill Muehlenberg This article was first published on Culture Watch What to read on this divisive topic: Americans used to celebrate and exalt in things like Columbus Day. […]
Sinwar was a needle in Hamas’ haystack.
Apparently, after a year of war this haystack has become much thinner. by Lev Tsitrin I won’t try to analyze what the death of Hamas leader portends for Gaza hostages […]
WHOA! The UN was Guarding Sinwar?
By Roger L Simon Ding-dong the witch is dead is an understatement! But amidst that ubiquitous reports of the elimination of Yahya Sinwar—the extraordinarily evil man most responsible for thousands […]
Who Will the Dems Replace Kamala With?
By Roger L Simon Get the hook! Get the hook! Apparently Kamala Harris’ handlers were gesturing wildly to Bret Baier to cut things short during his interview of the vice […]
Some Columbus Day Thoughts About Elon Musk
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds Elon Musk has scored multiple triumphs. The left has responded by sniping. But it does seem like the successful enterprises in America are increasingly run by […]
‘Bold vision’
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good by Theodore Dalrymple Speaking of Thomas Jolly, the director of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, the […]
Election 2024: Those Who Lecture Versus Those Tired of Being Lectured
Hectoring the electorate on its supposed ignorance or moral shortcomings has become a Harris campaign trademark. by Victor Davis Hanson The election is finally shaping up to be not only […]
What It Will Take to End the War in Ukraine
by Conrad Black Since the battle lines are barely moving, and with neither side appearing to be able to finish the war in Ukraine despite triumphalist noises, there is a […]
EXCLUSIVE: I helped jail the grooming gangs raping young girls in Rochdale – now things have got worse
From the Daily Mail Former police officer Maggie Oliver is angry. Twelve years ago she famously turned whistleblower to expose the horror of young girls being sexually abused by gangs […]
Iran, the Evil Kingdom, Protected by American “Wokesters.”
by Phyllis Chesler The Evil Kingdom of Mullahs has both exiled and murdered Afghan refugees in flight from the Taliban. In 2021, together with London based activist, Mandy Sanghera, I […]
The Verdict Is In: Non-Merit Based Hiring Has Diminished Quality at Canadian Universities
Patrick Keeney writes in the Epoch Times: The Times Higher Education, widely regarded as among the world’s leading journals for reporting on higher education in the UK and worldwide, has […]
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
by James Stevens Curl Two books have recently landed on my desk which deal in differing ways with images of the Landscape Garden: one is Prints and the Landscape Garden: […]
Fox News Up Against the Wall with Kamala Interview
by Roger Simon I suspect at least some of the powers that be at Fox News know to the degree they themselves are in, if anything, more jeopardy than Kamala […]