Unless he runs the most persuasive election campaign in Canada’s history, Trudeau and his partisans should be thoroughly punished by the voters for a combination of incompetence and deficient ethics by Conrad Black Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waits to speak about Ethics Commissioner Mario ...Read More...

On all sides, exaggeration and ignorance proliferate. by Conrad Black Election campaigns, especially those that begin as prematurely as this one, are rarely the optimal occasions for intelligently original use of language. Still, the present pre-electoral shouting match in the United States ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The predictable has followed the atrocities in El Paso and Dayton. Barack Obama raised the standard when he issued a statement condemning “language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments.” This is ...Read More...

The traditional media, whose Trump-hating excrescences are inflicted on Canadian readers and viewers have, to their towering chagrin, almost no influence in the U.S. by Conrad Black The Globe and Mail’s commentators on political events in Washington have, like the rest of the Canadian media, ...Read More...

He knows their weaknesses and isn’t afraid to apply pressure. by Conrad Black Of much greater importance to the political and strategic course of the United States than the shabby attempt to portray President Trump as a racist is the developing showdown between the United States and China. ...Read More...

The political debate has become so unfathomably absurd it may be worthwhile to retrace how we got here. by Conrad Black Six months before the Iowa caucuses, the political debate has become so unfathomably absurd that it may be worthwhile to retrace how we got here. It is a little over four ...Read More...

The treatment of Mark Norman was an unspeakable outrage, yet the media and opposition let the government off the hook by Conrad Black We are now less than three months from the federal election and are just starting to hear a few campaign noises that presumably presage the political histrionics ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Even I, as someone who has been blue in the face shrieking that the Mueller inquiry would be an unutterable fiasco since the day it was announced, could not have imagined such a terrible shambles as the world watched, gape-mouthed (like the witness much of the time), when Robert ...Read More...

To the extent to which his record in office conforms to pre-electoral promises, Trump’s record has been the best of any U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge by Conrad Black In The Globe and Mail last month, one Ian McGugan wrote a piece that was titled, very aptly but probably not in the way ...Read More...

He drives his critics insane. by Conrad Black Like many others, I have for some time been trying to understand Trump Derangement Syndrome, the phenomenon of otherwise reasonable people reacting irrationally to some peculiar quality of the president, a quality especially in evidence when he ...Read More...

The long-term consequences of Canada having higher tax rates in almost every bracket than the United States are easily predicted and potentially very damaging to this country by Conrad Black It is a well-known and almost uncontested economic aphorism that you will get more of whatever you ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Nowhere is the collapse of the Democratic Party as a coherent political organization more evident than in the astounding metamorphosis of Robert Mueller. He returned to public notice as special counsel and was instantly heralded by the Democratic media as a virtual Douglas MacArthur ...Read More...

As he piles up successes (and gaffes), the Democrats implode by Conrad Black As we settle into high summer and the period of maximum difficulty in finding anything to fill in hours of television news, especially 24/7 news television, two well-established political trends are emerging in this ...Read More...

And that means leaving the E.U. by Conrad Black As Britain’s relations with the European Union finally come to a climax, the United States can be grateful, once again, that contrary to the preferred outcome of most makers of American foreign policy, the U.S. national interest will be well ...Read More...

Max’s campaign against Boris is cowardly by Conrad Black Sir Max Hastings, whom I engaged as editor of the Daily Telegraph in 1986 and who stayed in that role for about nine years, seems to have installed himself at the head of the rabid mob of journalistic haters of Boris Johnson. In recent ...Read More...