This government has such a weak record, it has tried to sell its oppressive political correctness as a beatific aura that is itself a distinguished national achievement by Conrad Black If Stephen Harper had retired five years ago, as many advised, he would be regarded as one of the country’s ...Read More...

The Kurds are far from being unified and reliable U.S. allies, and Trump had little choice but to withdraw our few hundred troops. by Conrad Black The controversy over President Trump’s pullout on the Turkish–Syrian border will settle down quickly. It is another useful debunking of ancient ...Read More...

This is the government’s record: pandering, posturing, bungling, faddishness and extravagance, and four more years of it is promised by Conrad Black The signal facts of this federal election campaign are that the government is not running on its record, and cannot, and it is not promising ...Read More...

It can be the key part of a broad Middle Eastern coalition against Iran. by Conrad Black There are three angles for assessing President Trump’s announcement of an agreement on Syria with Turkey, even though, like the similar announcement that apparently caused the resignation of former defense ...Read More...

Trump has gained full control of his party, has held at least 45 percent of the country solidly behind him, and is threatening to derail the liberal slide of post-Reagan America and to pulverize and convert or expel the “OBushinton” cadres of the political class. by Conrad Black What appears ...Read More...

There is too much posing and pandering and not enough innovative policy. Canada yearns for leadership that will make it an envied and admired nation by Conrad Black This election campaign in Canada often seems dull, vapid, but civilized, and as the late finance minister Jim Flaherty said of ...Read More...

He has been wrong on just about every issue for decades. by Conrad Black It is hard not to feel some sympathy for Joe Biden, up to a point. He is said by almost everyone who knows him to be personally likeable. As a simple member of the public, I have never forgiven him for his treatment, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt by John F. Woolverton and James D. Bratt Eerdmans, 280 pages, $32 A Christian and a Democrat gets off to an inauspicious start, with a foreword by former FBI director James Comey denouncing President ...Read More...

FDR in 1936, Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Richard Nixon in 1972, Ronald Reagan in 1984, all won by over 20 points. Trump will gain a victory on that scale next year, and he will have earned it by Conrad Black Just as I was pulling my chair up to my desk and preparing to pounce clumsily upon my ...Read More...

Prosperity is increasing, and the less well-off are benefiting the most. by Conrad Black Four large secrets that most of the American media are afraid to utter are that the American economy is growing in a way that is directly helpful to the most vulnerable segments of society; that the administration’s ...Read More...

The Saudis are far from admirable, but we need to support them in this escalating conflict. by Conrad Black The drone raid on the Saudi oil fields, along with the Israeli elections, opens a new chapter in Middle Eastern relations. Whether the attack on Saudi oil production, which has temporarily ...Read More...

The Saudis are far from admirable, but we need to support them in this escalating conflict. by Conrad Black Last weekend’s drone raid on the Saudi oil fields, along with the Israeli elections, opens a new chapter in Middle Eastern relations. Whether the attack on Saudi oil production, which ...Read More...

If the president can become a bit more presidential, his reelection will be all but assured. by Conrad Black This is the time for President Trump to deprive his enemies of the last weapon that could be employed against him that could cause him any harm: the largely false, but still troublesome, ...Read More...

Nortel had been the victim of attacks by hackers. Around this time, Huawei began its rapid rise and usurped Nortel’s market position by Conrad Black There are many ironies in the controversies over the status of Huawei, the Chinese technology giant in the crosshairs of the U.S. Justice department, ...Read More...

They go back at least to the Spanish Armada by Conrad Black Americans watching the spectacle currently unfolding in the British government should not be fearful that the entire British political system is cracking up. It isn’t. The United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) has ...Read More...