All knew that his motive was our newspapers’ coverage of Shawinigate and the early stirrings of the Adscam scandal by Conrad Black It was a pleasant surprise to receive a book last week, courtesy of John Fraser (former master of Massey College): Jean Chrétien’s “My Stories, My Times.” Even ...Read More...

George H. W. Bush was a decent, honorable, and admirable man but not a distinguished political leader. by Conrad Black George H. W. Bush did, as many have stated, exemplify the highest civic and human virtues. A political or historical evaluation of him will be more complicated and, necessarily, ...Read More...

An investment by the public sector in Canadian media can be beneficial, if it is politically even-handed and underwrites quality by Conrad Black The federal government has introduced a $595-million, five-year boost for Canada's ailing media.(photo: Aaron Lynett) The federal government’s ...Read More...

Journalists froth as the Mueller special-counsel investigation rumbles toward its third year. by Conrad Black Contrary to the reasonable hopes and the expectations of some that the midterm elections would accelerate a normalization of the American political climate, nothing of the kind seems ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The controversy over acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is the inane death rattle of the Democratic addiction to the idea, pushed by the 90 percent-hostile press, that President Trump must remain handcuffed to an endless special counsel inquiry. This conviction persists, ...Read More...

A response to Theodore Kupfer’s essay ‘A Sensible Approach to Climate Change.’ by Conrad Black Theodore Kupfer’s attack on my remarks last week in these pages about President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord cannot be allowed to pass without comment. He cites Svante Arrhenius ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Despite noises from Europe, Canada, and the American Left, Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accords. President Trump has not received adequately grateful recognition for withdrawing from the Paris climate accord and effectively scuttling the Clean Power Plan. These measures, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black At this point, the Democrats appear to have a lead in the House of Representatives of about 30 or 40 members, a relatively small edge in an undisciplined chamber, and the Republicans have purged the NeverTrumpers, led (with his customary uncertainty) by departing House Speaker ...Read More...

All Europe was at war and no one really knew why. Sixteen million people would die as the blood-soaked years passed. by Conrad Black Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, left, and his cousin Czar Nicholas II of Russia are seen in a photo from 1905. This Sunday the world observes the centenary ...Read More...

The question now is whether House Democrats want to get something done or simply posture for another two years. by Conrad Black The Trump effort to drain the swamp is stalled, the Resistance attempt to defeat President Trump has failed, and the president has completed his takeover of the congressional ...Read More...

The Democrats have won enough to deal from some strength with the president, and he has conserved enough to do the same with them. by Conrad Black It was like a children’s prize day as everyone claimed victory on election night in the United States, and everyone had won something. The Blue ...Read More...

Populist politics respond to local conditions. by Conrad Black Jair Bolsonaro wins the Presidency in Brazil There is a rising buzz of rather unrigorous comment about a widespread wave of populism, which is generally seen as an odious movement verging on fascism. Somehow, Britain voted narrowly ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The problem with all the advice to the president urging him to change his demeanor is that it is given for the wrong reason and at the wrong time. As I have often recounted, since Donald Trump attacks the entire political system and almost everyone in or near it in both parties ...Read More...

We concluded that practically all of western Canada, and the sizeable conservative minority in eastern Canada, were practically unrepresented in the national media by Conrad Black The reasons my associates at the time and I founded the National Post 20 years ago were a combination of commercial ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Gradually, almost imperceptibly, the outline of a coherent Trump foreign policy is emerging and succeeding. The elements were to withdraw from the role as the default war-maker in the Middle East without creating a vacuum, render Russia less adversarial without facing it down ...Read More...