The Iconoclast
European Politics and the Cordon Sanitaire
How bad can it get? This bad. By Bruce Bawer After I moved from New York to Europe in 1988, and began reading the European media online with some regularity, […]
What happens next?
By William Corden Although I’m not a fan of Russian politics (because they usually kill dissidents) I sympathize with Putin because the West has provoked Russia from the time the […]
Zelenskyy Bites the Hand That Feeds Him Billions of Dollars
By Victor Davis Hanson On Friday, recently, on the 28th of February, we saw one of the most extraordinary things I think we’ve ever seen in American diplomatic history. Ukrainian […]
Oscar Who?
By Bruce Bawer It started, as ever, with the red carpet. Since I live in Norway, I watched it on TV2 Denmark. Asked by the Danish reporter why so many […]
An O’Toole for Anti-Israel Propaganda Big Lies Run Amuck in the New York Times Book Review
By Phyllis Chesler I know what can happen when a book receives a major prize, is chosen by a television host who has millions of viewers, or receives a front […]
Examining the White House Meltdown
By Armando Simón By years of training as a psychologist, I automatically look at both sides of an argument, or fight, even though I may be personally more inclined […]
The Peace Process on Ukraine Is Likely To Resume Sooner Rather Than Later, Despite the Meltdown in the Oval Office Last Week
By Conrad Black The speed and the glee with which the most febrile surviving Trump-haters among Democratic officeholders and the press have accused President Trump of ambushing and bullying President […]
Who Really Politicized the Pentagon?
By Victor Davis Hanson Is the era of rounding up government or academic “experts” to declare their support or opposition to ongoing controversies over? Public declarations by Anthony Fauci and […]
If Trump was serious about Canada
By William Corden In the Reg Green style . If he sent troops up to Vancouver it would be the shortest siege in military history. Close the two bridges and […]
Fasching in Germany under threat
By Gary Fouse The Fasching (Carnival) season is a great time to be in Germany. Everybody dresses up in crazy costumes, and there are parties and parades galore. When I […]
The Evolution of Prayer
The following paper explains how prayer developed, the psychological benefits of prayer, and finally then conditions necessary for prayer to be effective. “Remember, even if prayer does not change God, […]
10 Takeaways From the Zelenskyy Blowup
By Victor Davis Hanson 1) Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: Those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) […]
The UN Won’t Stop a Real Genocide
By Phyllis Chesler Deepti Mahajan, the Director of the Coalition for Hindu Girls Abducted and Their Rights, and a successful businesswoman, has just bravely written a Complaint which she will […]
Denizens of the Deep State
By Bruce Gilley It’s long past time to rein in the field of public administration, which supplies the bureaucrats who populate the administrative state. About 12,000 U.S. students a year […]
Sulky Mark Carney not what we need
By Conrad Black Canada appeared last week to be undergoing a paroxysm over U.S. President Donald Trump. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau incited public fears three weeks ago by declaring before […]
Trump’s Righteous Criticism of Zelenskyy
By Victor Davis Hanson President Donald Trump is incurring a lot of criticism lately on the Ukrainian war. He’s trying to negotiate an end to the war. Remember, there’s probably somewhere […]
