The Iconoclast
I am distraught over Daniel Penny’s Deadlocked Jury
By Phyllis Chesler I live in New York City. People are being sucker punched at random by strangers, sent into comas, sometimes killed. Criminals are looting stores—and shooting people down. […]
Sean Bw Parker’s Art
Sean Bw Parker’s book, Court Painter to the Counter Culture, is at a discount for the next week. needs a push to get it over the ‘full publish’ line, […]
What the Trump nominees Have Not Done—And Will Not Do
By Victor Davis Hanson Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. Many of Trump’s picks are well […]
Whitewashing Leftist and Islamist Jew Hatred
By Phyllis Chesler Two professors take to the New York Times to blur the connection between DEI and the Left’s response to Oct. 7th. These days, when one ponders misogyny and antisemitism, […]
Who will be the DEA administrator?
By Gary Fouse As a retired DEA agent, I have been following the Trump nomination process with greater than usual interest. I am gratified that Matt Gaetz dropped out of […]
Growing Older: Good Days, Bad Days
By Phyllis Chesler Someone once told me that as you get older, “you have good days and bad days. Get used to it.” Oh true words. I’ve had Covid three […]
UK government and its flea-bitten policies out of step with new rhythm of the West
By Conrad Black British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has sharply accelerated the descent of popular and international respect for the new Starmer government in the United Kingdom with […]
A Wide Variety of Books Reviewed for Possible Christmas Gifts for Intelligent People
By Armando Simón Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly Mentally ill people have always made normal people very nervous. In the 1880s, there were really no competent authorities or […]
Muslim bullying at the Belfast Girls Model School
I have been following this for a couple of weeks but not posted while I watched developments. This morning the BBC has a Northern Ireland headline School tells Muslim girls […]
A Quarter Century of Entertainment — and Propaganda
By Bruce Bawer When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, almost everybody was familiar with the prime-time schedules of the major networks. In those long-ago days before […]
Canada’s Cops Stand on Guard – for Hamas
By Bruce Bawer Montreal. In the 1980s and 90s, when I lived in New York, I made several summertime trips to the Canadian metropolis. It was a beautiful city, pleasant […]
Trump’s Second Term Promises To Usher in a New Era of Normalcy
By Conrad Black Steadily and almost imperceptibly, normalcy is returning to American political life. For the last eight years the conventional wisdom endorsed by practically all of the national political […]
Parallel Universes
By Theodore Dalrymple Cosmology is a subject that is far too difficult for me. For example, I find it impossible to understand the idea of the Big Bang, let alone […]
Canada and Mexico Shouldn’t Be Tarred With the Same Brush Regarding Illegal Immigration, Trade Infractions
From Conrad Black Raising tariffs is a nonsensical response to complaints about border control with a neighbouring country. In the case of the United States, the recent announcement by President-elect […]
Moral Exhibitionism: The Hollow Virtue of Overreaction
By Theodore Dalrymple Victory or defeat in democratic elections often provokes elation or misery, neither of which, for obvious reasons, is long lasting. Politicians rarely stick to their promises, and […]
Now they’re saying “it wasn’t a lie”
By William Corden Here’s a line or two of lyrics from Emmylou Harris’s “Jerusalem Tomorrow” it’s a fabulous song and, unlike Biden, has redemption in the final verse. If I […]
