by Conrad Black The prime minister should be congratulated for refusing to be bullied by the People’s Republic of China into returning Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to China, though she is being detained in Vancouver for extradition on a demand from the United States for alleged commercial offences. ...Read More...

A Silent Strategy for the President Will Spur the Silent (and Sane) Majority by Conrad Black Possibly by accident, there are preliminary signs, green shoots, that the president is by experimentation moving toward the campaign strategy most appropriate for the summer. It is Donald Trump, even ...Read More...

In their preemptive exuberance the president’s enemies have begun what amounts almost to a post-mortem on the Trump era. This prematurely fattened goose is cackling too loudly and too soon for several reasons. by Conrad Black The current speculation about a likely Joe Biden victory in the ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Canada is a magnificent country and most Canadians know that. It is not remotely in contention for being the most exciting country in the world, but excitement drama, and historical interest are ultimately generated by upheaval and often violence. I attempted, in my history of ...Read More...

Maybe voters should grant their wish. by Conrad Black Joe Biden’s present lead in the polls is a levitation. These are the dangling entrails of the panic that the national political media, which are unofficially conducting the Democratic campaign in the unheroic absence of the putative nominee, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black In recent weeks, less attractive characteristics of both the United States and Canada have been on display. The racist violence of some maladjusted American police produced a white police homicide of an African-American in Minneapolis (George Floyd), that disgusted America and ...Read More...

Left-wing extremists have hijacked the Floyd protests to wage war against American achievement. by Conrad Black The movement to tear down statues or even just to deface them was misconceived in its earliest stages and has now, like most aspects of the self-flagellating fever over “systemic ...Read More...

The country wants prosperity back and Trump is a great cheerleader. Joe Biden, by contrast, will be dominated by the extremes of his party. by Conrad Black When President Trump got a good look at the coronavirus in late January, and listened to the opening choruses of the Democratic attack ...Read More...

Despite unrest at home, the Trump Administration has made notable progress in U.S. foreign policy.  by Conrad Black In the clangorous pre-electoral atmosphere created by the COVID-19 crisis, its economic consequences, and the disorders that have followed the apparent murder of George Floyd ...Read More...

President Trump should win, but that does not now provide any certainty that he will. by Conrad Black The final stage of the election campaign and its result will depend on four factors: management of the balance between demand for police reform and concern for the maintenance of public order; ...Read More...

Never mind the police. The greatest failing of the American judicial system is the fact that prosecutors have practically unlimited power. by Conrad Black The current inflamed condition of political debate presents opportunities as great as its challenges. There is some merit in both the Democratic ...Read More...

. . . as Democrats in government and media continue their ineffectual attacks. by Conrad Black The Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, is so dyspeptic and incoherent, and so mired in the Trump–Russia, Ukraine, and Tara Reade scandals, that the Democratic presidential campaign is ...Read More...

This is hardball politics of a kind the country has never seen before, the ultimate attempt to criminalize policy differences. by Conrad Black All the stops have now been pulled out in the necessarily unorthodox Democratic presidential campaign. The Democrats are simultaneously blaming ...Read More...

I can no longer disparage Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King's devotion to his dog. (I did not, however, take it upon myself to give Maya messages to take heavenwards to great deceased personalities, as King gave Pat for Sir Wilfrid Laurier, W.E. Gladstone, his own parents and others) by Conrad Black Former ...Read More...

The president will stay the course and defeat the unholy coalition of improvident events and the shopworn Democrats who, in their desperation, have allied themselves with pestilence and mayhem. by Conrad Black No president since Abraham Lincoln has had such a relentless sequence of crises ...Read More...