The Iconoclast
The Erosion of American Capitalism
By Bruce Gilley In November, Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy. Was this because it was a particularly ill-managed company? No, Spirit Airlines went bankrupt because the United States is no […]
New Toronto Tory MP puts Olivia Chow on notice for letting antisemitism fester
From Geoffrey Clarfield. This is about my home city, Toronto. From True North A few days ago, my new member of Parliament, Conservative Don Stewart, sent a letter to Mayor […]
German ‘diversity’ Christmas market banned for selling Hamas gifts
From The Telegraph Prosecutors are investigating the Michaelskirche parish in Darmstadt for “incitement to hatred” and the “use of terrorist symbols” after receiving complaints about the festive event held on […]
Dronomania
By Victor Davis Hanson New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the airspace of airports […]
Judge enters not guilty pleas to murder charges on Axel Rudakubana’s behalf as he remains silent
From the Liverpool Echo and the Daily Mail A judge has entered not guilty pleas to three counts of murder on behalf of Axel Rudakubana in connection with the Southport stabbings. The […]
Trump defeats the self-loathing agenda of ‘the great liberal death wish’
By Conrad Black Even in Europe, which generally likes weak American administrations devoted to endless collegiality with its balky and condescending European allies, there are signs of relief at the […]
Is Columbia history professor Rashid Khalidi a historian?
Lev Tsitrin David Reminck, the editor of the New Yorker, recently deemed it necessary to dedicate a full issue of New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly show broadcast on NPR stations nationwide, […]
Trump Begets a Resurrection of Common Sense
By Conrad Black As the Christmas holidays and the year end approach, I respectfully take it upon myself to recommend that thoughtful Americans reflect upon how close the United States […]
A Christmas Portrait
By Carl Nelson Just about fifty years ago my college career was drawing to a close, (I hoped.) And my dream, if I could have described it, would have been […]
A Night Out With Handel’s Messiah
By Phyllis Chesler I don’t go out very much these days but friends finally managed to drag me to Lincoln Center to hear the New York Philharmonic perform George Friederic […]
Fall of Syria’s Assad Regime Signals Hope for the Region
From Conrad Black Syria suffered for more than 50 years under the brutal despotism of the Assad family in what was the oppression of the country by an 11 percent […]
What Al-Jolani’s Past Can Reveal About Syria’s Future
From Geoffrey Clarfield, from the Middle East Forum In late February 2012 I (Jonathan Spyer) was travelling through Syria’s Idleb province. I stayed for a few days in a town […]
Convicted terrorist ‘deeply offended’ by pub sign sues boozer because it ‘scares him’
From GB News and later the Telegraph A convicted terrorist is suing a pub after he was allegedly “deeply offended” by a sign that “scared him”. Khalid Baqa, 60, who has spent […]
Please No Kamala as Governor of California
By Roger L Simon I started to laugh, while at the same time feeling slightly sad, when I read Kamala Harris was considering running for governor of California. That’s the […]
Crystal Mangum Confessed. But What About the Victims of Sex Assault Hoaxes Whose Accusers Have Never Confessed?
By Armando Simón In 2006, the elite la crosse athletes of Duke University hired a stripper to perform for them to celebrate some wins. Although they specifically asked for […]
Are the Years of Madness Ending?
By Victor Davis Hanson Never in U.S. history has a president-elect been welcomed as the real president before his January 20 inauguration. And never has the incumbent president so willingly […]
