French-Canadians owe their cultural survival to the Roman Catholic Church; they owe their achievement of approximate economic equality with English-Canadians to Duplessis by Conrad Black A just-released book about Maurice Duplessis (the premier of Quebec from 1936-1939 and again from 1944-1959) ...Read More...

The former president enjoys an immense following and those who united to depose him are going to have to do much better than they have to maintain their coalition and prevent his successful return. by Conrad Black These are only the opening days of what is supposedly the post-Trump era, and ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The reaction of the Left last week to the death of Rush Limbaugh was a shocking demonstration of the incivility of current American political discourse. Everyone remotely familiar with the American political scene is aware of what a powerhouse and pioneer Rush Limbaugh was. Anyone ...Read More...

At this point, Joe Biden doesn’t look any more like Franklin Roosevelt than he does like Donald Trump. by Conrad Black Given my consistent but never uncritical support of President Trump and his administration and my frequent expressions of skepticism about Joe Biden over many years, it has ...Read More...

by Conrad Black After little over month in office it remains a mystery whether the president and his senior collaborators are earnestly baring their innermost thoughts about the foreign and strategic policy the new administration intends to pursue, or are pursuing the authentic interests of the ...Read More...

The overwhelming slant of intellectual comment, and certainly media comment, is that religion is an outworn concept that has been reduced to the status of mere superstition or habit. by Conrad Black The case of Jonathan Bradley, a fourth-year student at Ryerson University and a contributor ...Read More...

The notion that Donald Trump is about to be abandoned by the force that he created is poor and wishful thinking. by Conrad Black Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) committed a mortal political error on Saturday when, after voting to acquit President Trump on constitutional grounds, ...Read More...

The supremely inconvenient fact is that Donald Trump has by far the largest political following of anyone in the United States, and the attempt to deny him the ability to seek reelection has failed. by Conrad Black The vast bipartisan pretense that the Trump era is over continued through the ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Friday was the first anniversary of the death of Christie Blatchford, who must rank as one of the outstanding journalists of my time in the Canadian newspaper business, (more than 50 years). A number of readers, among many who miss her yet, have asked several of us at the National ...Read More...

by Conrad Black French President Emmanuel Macron has now warned his countrymen of the menace of American academic and media “woke” thinking and of identity politics as a formula for social oppression and disunity.  France is officially focused entirely on the integration of its entire population ...Read More...

The Democrats are wasting no time in squandering their victory by Conrad Black Impeachment will likely prove the most disastrous political initiative since Richard Nixon involved himself directly in the Watergate defense strategy. Joe Biden had a perfect opportunity to be a president of unity ...Read More...

Donald Trump will prevail in the Senate impeachment circus, and at the end of it, the country’s impatience will be rising for Joe Biden to do something useful. by Conrad Black So far, after nearly three weeks of the Biden Administration, the only aspect of the Biden campaign promises that ...Read More...

by Conrad Black J.K. Rowling The woke and cancel culture is plumbing new depths of absurdity and injustice every week. By my casual count the New York Times, for years the most prestigious and constant media defender of liberal American values, has conducted four professional lynchings in ...Read More...

by Conrad Black President Biden’s meeting last Monday with 10 Republican senators seeking a compromise on COVID-19 relief legislation may be his first action on his promise to try to work with Republicans and promote political unity. It also may be the last opportunity to stop the Democrats’ ...Read More...

What is needed is a little strategic thinking in Ottawa by Conrad Black Canada absolutely has to retaliate for the outrageous and cavalier cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. The millions of Canadians who celebrated former U.S. president Donald Trump’s departure from the White House ...Read More...