We must jettison this government’s insane energy policy and ensure national self-sufficiency by Conrad Black Canada needs to become more secure by becoming more self-sufficient. In a new series, the Post examines how a country made wealthy by globalization and trade can also protect itself ...Read More...

Democrats seeking electoral advantage from this crisis are in an untenable position.  Even in suboptimal circumstances, it is hard to see where any case can be made for mismanagement by the administration. by Conrad Black The new Democratic pre-electoral chorus is already audibly arising like ...Read More...

It is time the intelligent Right deprived the moronic Left of the ability to swaddle their socialistic cynicism and defeatism in the great and misapplied legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. by Conrad Black Writing on President’s Day last month, I engaged in the fundamentally disagreeable activity ...Read More...

The president fends off ankle-biting Democrats in Congress and the media. by Conrad Black Even in such a worrisome and dangerous time as the current public-health and economic crisis, there are some entertaining election-year maneuvers. The Trump-hating media have been reduced to desperate ...Read More...

There is a case to be made for draconian measures to reduce the overall number of infections and thus deaths, but putting the entire economy into abeyance and immuring the population rather than focusing on the vulnerable may cause more harm than good by Conrad Black The Canadian government’s ...Read More...

Democratic Party bosses are sending an infirm and elderly mouse to bell a big, tawny, roaring cat. Anyone can see how it will end. by Conrad Black President Trump has met and passed his supreme test. This has left his Democratic opponents  desperately espousing gloom and demanding that the ...Read More...

The president is already unlimbering the economic guns and starting to spike the dreams of those who hope that the economic consequences of the anti-coronavirus measures will lose the administration its reelection. by Conrad Black The political aspect of the coronavirus crisis is developing ...Read More...

The president is showing true leadership in responding to the coronavirus. by Conrad Black The near-term future of America’s physical and financial health now depends on weighing public-health and commercial data in a gigantic cost-efficiency study as disease and economic recession compete ...Read More...

Israel must be as united as possible to prepare and implement a peace that generally resolves the problem created when the British with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 sold the same real estate to two different parties. by Conrad Black The third Israeli general election in a year has produced ...Read More...

The consequences of forcing everyone to self-quarantine could take years to heal. Tax relief won’t work with people and companies who aren’t making any money, and direct payments to the whole population, as is envisioned in the U.S., is a bit of a blunderbuss. by Conrad Black The coronavirus ...Read More...

After a shaky start, Trump is hitting his stride, as is the nation. by Conrad Black Evaluating the political impact on the election campaign of the coronavirus pandemic is obviously hazardous, but not fruitless or impossible. We can see from the Chinese experience, although that government ...Read More...

There are delicate balances the administration will have to sort out, but the results of the national voluntary mobilization the administration has led are already emerging. by Conrad Black As the coronavirus crisis rapidly develops, the Trump Administration must cope with two paradoxical ...Read More...

President Trump has turned a public health challenge into an invitation for more temperate political discourse that his opponents will continue to scorn at their peril.  by Conrad Black After rattling the country with his implausible bravura and rather embarrassing statements at his press ...Read More...

Europe’s bungling of the approaching danger has been so serious that Donald Trump should not have any problem demonstrating that his administration has handled it better than its natural comparable countries by Conrad Black The greatest long-term significance of the coronavirus pandemic, as ...Read More...

The Democratic also-rans exit, stage left by Conrad Black The hecatomb of unsuccessful Democratic candidates raises questions about the current viability of the Democrats that they will have to address in the next four years. It appears that the powers that be in that party were so fixated ...Read More...