by Conrad Black An eminent former cabinet member and I are having an amicable running debate about what level of concern is justified by the steadily more extreme espousal of lunatic policy positions by influential Democrats. Personal income top tax rates of 70 percent (Elizabeth Warren, Bernie ...Read More...

The shadows lengthen and I am proud to have known these two great Canadians, George Chuvalo and Ron Joyce by Conrad Black Ron Joyce, the founder of the Tim Horton fast food chain, who died last week aged 88, was a good friend, a brilliant businessman, an extremely generous and unpretentious ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The nadir of the amoral egotism of what might broadly be called “Me-ism” has been reached by the avant garde of the Democratic Party in their race to the bottom of the electoral depths. The renunciation of any notions of sacrifice, patriotic pride, the spirituality of life, or ...Read More...

He’s doing fine and holding his support as the Democrats look ever more foolish. by Conrad Black Inveterate and predictable Trump-disparager E. J. Dionne declares the state of the Union to be “petrified” (on the weekend), and cites as illustrative of the complete intellectual and temperamental ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Cary Katz  Normally I would not inflict on National Post readers anything about the vagaries of the U.S. justice system, but the harassments of my illustrious friend Mark Steyn, with whose brilliant writing most National Post readers would be familiar, are a legitimate news story, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Last week’s arrest of Roger Stone at the behest of Special Counsel Robert Mueller incites me to recall Joseph Welch’s famous question of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy at the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you no decency?” Sending ...Read More...

Schumer and Pelosi won in the short term, but now they will need to budge genuinely and significantly on immigration. by Conrad Black There is room for rejoicing all round in the end of the shutdown. The window-rattling ululations of joy of the Democrats at their unimaginable humiliation of ...Read More...

Partisan hackery in our intelligence agencies is a much greater threat to democracy than any purported ‘collusion.’ by Conrad Black The New York Times story last weekend, that senior FBI personnel took it upon themselves two years ago to open a counterintelligence investigation into whether ...Read More...

It should, hopefully, be an interesting election, and we might get closer to two-party government than we have been since before the First World War by Conrad Black It is not too early to consider the next federal election, barely eight months away. The country has come to know Justin Trudeau ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Once again, it is my unpleasant duty to take issue with my friend of nearly 40 years, the eminent commentator George Will. On January 18, he published a column in the Washington Post entitled, “The Shabbiest U.S. President Ever Is an Inexpressibly Sad Specimen.” Will has deployed ...Read More...

A winning endgame appears for President Trump. by Conrad Black The logjam is finally starting to loosen in Washington. Readers may recall that last week I took it upon myself to urge the president to launch a four-pronged attack on the border-security/partial-government-shutdown impasse. I ...Read More...

Cameron didn’t believe Britain would vote to leave and even after they did, Europe didn’t believe the British were serious. by Conrad Black The front page of the London Daily Mirror undoubtedly had it wrong when it ran a front page on Wednesday with a full-length photo of Prime Minister Theresa ...Read More...

by Conrad Black It is time for the president to take his opponents by surprise, as Richard Nixon once did. In 1971, President Nixon astounded his critics with the announcement of the trip to China and later his call for wage and price controls to prevent inflation. Similarly, in 1972, he caught ...Read More...

The U.S. is demonstrating almost effortlessly how illusory is the idea that any other country or group of countries can challenge its pre-eminence. by Conrad Black President Donald Trump speaks to members of the military at a rally at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on Dec. 26, 2018.(Andrew Harnik/AP) Almost ...Read More...

by Conrad Black It is time to rekindle our political spirits in this new year, and to take stock of the subjects of encouragement. First, the takeover of the House of Representatives by the Democrats was, on balance, not as jarring to the vital organs as was feared. As a figure of horror, ...Read More...