Behind the peeling façades of Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney, America is a monster, and not always an amiable one by Conrad Black At this point, everyone on both sides of the proverbially unguarded (except for aggressive customs and immigration officials) Canada-U.S. border wins from the ...Read More...

by Conrad Black President Trump’s idiosyncratic methods conceal the strength of his effort to reverse the disintegration of America as a Great Power and a just force in the world. Beneath or with his almost avuncular comments on Kim Jong-un being “a nice guy,” the president has gained Mr. Kim’s ...Read More...

by Conrad Black It is a bit rich for my esteemed colleague Jonah Goldberg, one of the most persevering but civil of the Never Trumpers, to write, as he did a few days ago, that the Trump emphasis on an FBI spy in his campaign was reminiscent of McCarthyism. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, on ...Read More...

Ontario is a jurisdiction of serious discontent, seeking radical change. With its triad of party leaders, the choice is clear by Conrad Black Ontario’s long-awaited election day is finally almost upon us. There is a unanimous view that the Liberals are finally going to be thrown out, bag and ...Read More...

by Conrad Black However the legal controversy between the administration, congressional committees, and the Justice Department plays out (and I have made my predictions on that subject), the general state of American justice should be the ultimate winner. No objective assessment of its condition ...Read More...

Jordan Peterson and Stephen Fry prove a powerful coalition at a Munk debate, overrunning the trenches of the New York and Washington left by Conrad Black Stephen Fry arrives for a Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Lord Snowdon at Westminster Abbey on April 7, 2017, in London, England.Justin ...Read More...

by Conrad Black It is now clear that Russian attempts at interference in the 2016 election, though somewhat outrageous, were ineffectual, unconnected with any particular party, a small effort given what a country of Russia’s resources and taste for political skullduggery and chicanery is capable ...Read More...

The demonstrations this week along the Gaza border and the attempt by protesters to swarm into Israel under an acrid smokescreen is a gesture of pathetic desperation. by Conrad Black The move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and the American withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The move of the United States embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and the American withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal have been the subjects of an immense volume of nonsensical comment and hand-wringing. The idea that it is anyone’s business apart from Israel and the United ...Read More...

The presidency is what its occupants make of it, and Trump is a man of his times, whose time has come, writes Black in an excerpt from his new book In an excerpt from his latest book, available May 14, Conrad Black says now that U.S. President Donald Trump has reduced most peoples’ tax burden, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The New York Times’ list of questions that the special counsel wishes to put to the president is a farrago of psychometric inquiries into mood, motive, and opinion that has almost nothing to do with the original canard about Trump-campaign collusion with Russia. Unlike the cases ...Read More...

The verdict must await his trial, but rarely has the presumption of innocence lodged so plausibly with a defendant by Conrad Black The strange case of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman raises a number of serious questions about defence and justice policy in Canada, and unless a heavy burden of proof ...Read More...

The disgraceful White House Correspondents Dinner, and other problems by Conrad Black James Comey, Robert Mueller and Patrick Fitzgerald The house of cards of the Trump Resistance is collapsing with accelerating speed, as anything propelled by the force of gravity does. The “comedy” act at ...Read More...

Canada is a mockery for importing 700,000 barrels of oil a day in eastern Canada while being unable to move oil from Alberta to eastern markets by Conrad Black The issue of pipelines is a key in Canada’s latest crossroads of national seriousness. The country didn’t arise from an anti-colonial ...Read More...

Their effort against Trump has brought their own misconduct to light. by Conrad Black I will just make a prediction and try to keep out of the swamp of Trump-obsession as the weeks unfold. The anti-Trump movement is now in inexorable decline; it is a little like the Nixon defense forces after ...Read More...

Anti-Trump mainstream media in the U.S., joined by their fatuously chirping Canadian counterparts, are failing the general public by Conrad Black We are living through an era when the Western democracies are generally reassessing a great deal of assumed conventional liberal wisdom, and have ...Read More...

Trump has gotten the better of them. by Conrad Black It has been a good week for President Trump. Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz provided indisputable evidence that former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe lied at least four key times and was fired by the attorney general ...Read More...

There are better methods of achieving the admirable goal of the elimination of poverty than just pouring out cash and paying for it by tax increases by Conrad Black It was my pleasure on Wednesday night to participate in a debate at the C.D. Howe Institute about the desirability or otherwise ...Read More...

And he is pursuing important foreign-policy objectives in China and Mexico. by Conrad Black It is strangely satisfying to observe President Trump slowly rising in the polls, like the astonishingly slow lift-off of a rocket or an aircraft. The poll of polls of the last week has him at 43 percent, ...Read More...

This is intellectual fraud, on the state and the Church. This government should do what the Harper government would not do and legislate abortion by Conrad Black A cross glistens in the sunlight at a church in Etobicoke, Ont.Peter J Thompson/National Post It is reasonable to assume that ...Read More...

Prediction: A major Trump success in Korea and in the midterms by Conrad Black The thrusting green shoots of early spring and visions of cotton-tailed rabbits confounding my wife’s splendid Hungarian dogs by their acrobatic zig-zag jumping have incited me to make some predictions about this ...Read More...

What we have here is a failure to appreciate the president. by Conrad Black It is distressing to see my friend of nearly 40 years, George Will, writing such words of frenzied despair about the president and his national-security adviser–designate, John Bolton. It is also worrisome to see my ...Read More...

Journalists may be held to a less exacting standard than lawyers, though a free press is scarcely less important to democracy than a fair justice system by Conrad Black As a party to, in legal parlance, “the matter of Hollinger Inc.,” I received last week, along with dozens of other people, ...Read More...

Don’t try to impeach your opponent without legal cause. by Conrad Black No one following the Russian-collusion and related dramas should be in any doubt about the steady flow of the balance of damaging evidence away from Trump and on to his accusers. It is clear that the hierarchy of the FBI ...Read More...

The grandees of that party should note that the appearance is that the legitimate leader was ejected in a cooked-up dawn-raid smear campaign by Conrad Black Ontario PC leadership candidates Tanya Granic Allen, Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott and Doug Ford pose for a photo after a debate ...Read More...