The Iconoclast

A Reminder of What the 4th of July Means
By Victor Davis Hanson Today is the 4th of July, and I’d like to remind everybody what the 4th of July is. It’s the formal date when the Second Continental […]

Brothers accused of assaulting armed Manchester Airport cops used ‘high level of violence’
From the Manchester Evening News. To recap, readers might remember this incident during late July last year. A piece of video was circulated showing two men, from the Islamic Community, […]

God Bless America!

German train passengers overpower Syrian axeman
From the Telegraph Passengers on a high-speed train in Bavaria fought and overpowered a man after he started attacking people with an axe. The suspect, reportedly a Syrian citizen, lashed out […]

Zohran Mamdani Is Dusting Off the Old Socialist Playbook. He Hopes No One Will Notice
By Victor Davis Hanson I’d like to talk about the dream house of Zohran Mamdani. He was a successful Democratic Socialist candidate in the first round of the recent New York mayoral elections. […]

Make Me Sick
By Theodore Dalrymple A suspended doctor in England is running a company that sells people sick notes to excuse them on medical grounds from their work. “When you’re ill,” said […]

Trump 2.0 is a Wrecking Ball
And he’s wrecking the right stuff. By Glenn Harlan Reynolds Less than six months ago, I wrote: The Left Gave Us Trump 2.0. And they’re not going to like it. Right […]

The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called Degreed Experts
By Victor Davis Hanson The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes. Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of […]

Trusting Trump on the Fourth of July
By Roger L Simon If you’re looking for an article on the minutiae of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” you have come to the wrong URL and then some. The debt […]

As Homelessness Grows, City Leaders Chase Global Goals
By Theodore Dalrymple The mayors of large cities in the west these days seem often to be more concerned with global problems such as climate change, and even the reform […]

Donald Trump’s ‘Astoundingly Successful’ June Will Soon Come With Its Own Challenges
By Victor Davis Hanson I’d like to review, very quickly, some challenges ahead for the MAGA movement in general and President Donald Trump in particular. He’s had a wonderful June. He’s defied […]

What if Cuba Did to Us What Hamas Did to Israel on October 7, 2023?
By Gary Fouse Amidst all the international debate over Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas and the devastation in Gaza, let me pose a hypothetical question: […]

The Diddy “Freak Off” Disaster
By Phyllis Chesler Will His Victims Receive Witness Protection? In my view, he’s guilty alright–of savage domestic violence, sadistic and voyeuristic sexual abuse, of buying and distributing drugs to fuel […]

Police investigating punk band Bob Vylan for SECOND anti-Israel outburst onstage just weeks before Glastonbury
From the Daily Mail RABBLE-rousing punk band Bob Vylan are being investigated by police for another anti-Israel outburst onstage weeks before the Glastonbury Festival, the Mail can reveal. Detectives are probing video […]

NATO retains a splendid future, could even go worldwide
By Conrad Black The almost unanimous NATO commitment to a sharp increase in the member-countries’ military budgets at the meeting of NATO leaders last week was a complete legitimisation of […]

Turkey detains cartoonist over Muhammad caricature
From DW A cartoonist working for the satirical Leman magazine was detained by police for questioning on Monday amid controversy over a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. In a statement, the chief public prosecutor’s […]