The Iconoclast
Israel rescues 10 Indian laborers being held in Palestinian West Bank village
From The Times of India Ten foreign workers from India were rescued overnight from a West Bank village where they had been held for over a month, the Population and […]
‘Sex slave’ could have been abused by more than 200 men, court hears
The trial continues. From the Manchester Evening News An alleged ‘sex slave’ of a group of men in Rochdale has told a jury she could have been abused by more than 200 […]
The Fraudulent Laboratory
By Theodore Dalrymple When I was young and naïve, the thought never occurred to me that what appeared in medical journals might be fraudulent. I knew that there had been […]
Five Ukrainian Fables
By Victor Davis Hanson Fable One: Donald Trump Is Appeasing Russia? Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not […]
The Only Immigrant Democrats Don’t Support: Elon Musk
By Victor Davis Hanson Have you noticed, everyone, that the crescendo of hatred toward Elon Musk is becoming surreal? We had a congresswoman from Ohio, I think her name was Marcy Kaptur, […]
Working With the Gipper
By Bruce Bawer Frank Lavin was appointed by George W. Bush as Ambassador to Singapore and, later, as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade. Until recently, he was CEO […]
Can a Political Party Have a Personality Disorder?
By Roger L Simon Who are those people, I wondered Tuesday night, as I watched the Democrats sit on their hands when brain cancer victim 13-year-old Devarjaye “D.J.” Daniel was recognized as […]
The Disturbing Rise of Criminal Idolatry in a Superficial Age
By Theodore Dalrymple A portrait of Luigi Mangione has been painted on a wall in London under a brick arch which might be very well interpreted as a halo. In […]
Hate has no home here – except for antisemitism
By Matthew M. Hausman While walking to shul on a recent Shabbat morning, I passed a lawn sign that read, “Hate has no home here.” As anybody familiar with the […]
Before Trump, no one had a plan to bring Ukraine war to a conclusion
By Conrad Black In the aftermath of the rather acrimonious meeting in the White House on Friday between President Zelensky of Ukraine and the president and vice president of the […]
Rotherham grooming gang members jailed for over 18 years after raping ‘extremely vulnerable’ girls
Part of Operation Stovewood that has been investigating and prosecuting such cases in South Yorkshire for several years. Not your classic ‘Asian’ Muslim gang members, but either drawn in by […]
Pentagon’s Partisan Letter Against Trump, Hegseth Debunked
By Victor Davis Hanson Recently, there’s been a lot of controversy because five former secretaries of defense—that would be Lloyd Austin, Jim Mattis, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel, and William Perry—have all […]
Hostility Toward Gretzky Is Both Undeserved and Embarrassing
By Conrad Black The outburst of hostility toward Wayne Gretzky because he is a friend of President Donald Trump is one of the most embarrassing manifestations of national immaturity that […]
European Politics and the Cordon Sanitaire
How bad can it get? This bad. By Bruce Bawer After I moved from New York to Europe in 1988, and began reading the European media online with some regularity, […]
What happens next?
By William Corden Although I’m not a fan of Russian politics (because they usually kill dissidents) I sympathize with Putin because the West has provoked Russia from the time the […]
Zelenskyy Bites the Hand That Feeds Him Billions of Dollars
By Victor Davis Hanson On Friday, recently, on the 28th of February, we saw one of the most extraordinary things I think we’ve ever seen in American diplomatic history. Ukrainian […]
