by Conrad Black There is some natural justice in the shambles of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 policy. This administration benefited miraculously from the onset of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus—all polls prior to the arrival of the pandemic had indicated that President Donald ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Peggy Noonan’s column in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday is a very clear exposé of the profound political division in America today. Her position is that Donald Trump is a deadly combination of crazy, dishonest, and incompetent, that there can be no possible question that ...Read More...

As the U.S. suffers through its first period of outright decline since the Great Depression, this is our chance for Canada to be an important and positive world leader by Conrad Black This is the time Canada has awaited for 350 years: the United States has momentarily subsided into a state ...Read More...

by Conrad Black As the 50th anniversary of the 1972 election approaches, it is time to reconsider the Watergate controversy that preceded and ultimately partially undid it. I’ve just completed a review for the New Criterion of Michael Dobbs’ new book about Watergate, King Richard. The book repeats ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Former German Foreign Minister (1998–2005) and Green Party leader Joschka Fischer published a column on July 23 that, perhaps inadvertently, well summarizes the confused strategic worldview of the traditional German political parties, which is steadily diverging from the interests ...Read More...

by Conrad Black It’s a worrisome time for those who follow or are to any extent dependent upon American foreign policy. The Biden administration began very slowly on Cuba, having followed meekly in the tracks of the Obama appeasement of that appalling regime. The well-known pro-Castro enthusiasm ...Read More...

by Conrad Black This column is becoming a weekly checklist on the descent of American public policy and attitudes further into the depths of frivolity, chaos, and national self-dislike.In this past week, we’ve seen the absurd spectacle of a group of Texas state legislators commandeering a private ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Flags mark where ground-penetrating radar recorded hits of what are believed to be 751 unmarked graves in this cemetery near the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess First Nation, Sask. PHOTO BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Almost all Canadians who ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The fact that the Supreme Court of the United States has effectively debunked the Democratic effort to deform the whole process of electing the president and vice president is naturally gratifying. Some readers will recall that I recently suggested that the abdication by the ...Read More...

by Conrad Black C-SPAN’s consultation of a rather large and randomly selected number of historians to rate the presidents of the United States produced an often whimsical result when it reported its findings last week. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Franklin D. Roosevelt are, as they ...Read More...

by Conrad Black In the last nine months, the United States Supreme Court has conducted the most important and delicate feat of political navigation since the late 1930’s when President Roosevelt proposed its expansion. On that occasion, even after he had been advised that he could succeed ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Having given my Canada Day greetings to readers last week, I will confine myself to permutations of the observation of the national holiday. We are celebrating 154 successful years of the only transcontinental, bicultural, parliamentary confederation in the history of the world. ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The Biden–Harris administration is now in an extended levitation of credibility. Except for Donald Trump, who entered office in the midst of a public relations terror campaign against him and had no trace of a political honeymoon, all incoming presidents arrive with a favoring ...Read More...

by Conrad Black There can be little doubt the United States is now in a contest with China over which will be the most important country in the world. In important respects, we are replicating the German challenge to the United Kingdom prior to World War I and the renewed German challenge of ...Read More...

by Conrad Black In my expression of gratitude to COVID vaccinators last week, I did not mention that the federal government took an unconscionable risk in gambling on the effect of a 10-week gap between vaccinations, nor the disgraceful record Canada has in getting the population fully vaccinated, ...Read More...