The Iconoclast
The West Must Recognize That Beijing Is an Enemy of Western Civilization
By Conrad Black The arrest of Linda Sun, a former chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and an aide to the previous governor, Andrew Cuomo, and of […]
The Transgender and Anti-Israel True Believers
By Phyllis Chesler Birds of a Feather … The transgender issue has become as toxic and as polarizing as that of the Israel/Palestine matter. A far-fetched comparison? Not really. The […]
Did President Trump actually win the debate? Lord Conrad Black with Sebastian Gorka on AMERICA First
Paradoxes of ivory-tower mind: NYU Law professor decries misinformation — than insists on staying misinformed
By Lev Tsitrin The title of a book-signing event sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice was “Solutions for a Threatened Democracy” — and one of the obvious threats to democracy […]
Judge orders Rotherham rape gang survivor to REMOVE demand for deportations in court statement
From GB News A Rotherham rape gangs survivor was ordered by a judge to remove a demand for her abusers to be deported in her courtroom victim impact statement, GB […]
A Viennese Perspective on American Ethnomusicology
By Geoffrey Clarfield The academic field called ethnomusicology aspires to encompass the comparative study of the world’s music, both present and past, defined in a variety of ways by those […]
Juries, Prosecutors and the Rule of Law
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds So this Substack is actually mostly a podcast. I recorded an episode of the Thomson/Reuters legal podcast, “The Hearing,” and to be honest, had some doubts […]
Ukraine could be Europe’s moment, if the will is there
By Conrad Black Western Europe could quite properly see the Ukraine war as it now stands as a great opportunity. In the United States, Donald Trump remains the election favourite, […]
Noa and Leah: Victims of the same jihad
From the Jewish News Syndicate The face of a slave is—or should be—unforgettable. On Oct. 7, graphic, heartrending videos circulated social media, but none seemed crueler than the video of a screaming […]
Hull grooming gang: Alleged victims complain after police officers diverted to deal with summer riots
I have always prefered to call them complainants. We do not call the victims of shoplifting or burglary ‘alleged’ victims, even though the accused are innocent until proven guilty. Giving […]
Double, Double Toil and Trouble: Harris Creeping Up on MAGA Like Something Out of Macbeth
By Conrad Black Each time it seems that the anti-Trump coalition has run negative positions to retreat to, they feverishly dig a new trench, fasten their helmets, and leap into […]
Believe Melania. Don’t Trust the FBI!
By Roger L Simon I again felt the familiar nausea of our times while watching the Newsmax chyron on today’s (Sunday Sep 16’s to be clear) near fatal doings in […]
Fact checking
By William Corden You’ve gotta love the fact checking industry that’s grown up alongside the internet. Seems that you can ask just about anybody whether or not something is true […]
An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus
By Victor Davis Hanson After the September 10, 2024, presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the Harris campaign became giddy. And why not? Pre-debate conventional wisdom had assured […]
FBI says it’s investigating ‘what appears to be an attempted assassination’ against Trump in Florida
From CNN The FBI said Sunday it “is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of former President Trump.” The Trump campaign said earlier Sunday that the former president […]
The Israeli Officer Spy Conspiracy Goes Mainstream
By Ehud Neor After 25 hours of not looking at a screen (that is the Holy Shabbat day of rest), I was washing dishes and thinking how I would respond […]
