Tag: Viewpoints

Conrad Black: A Tale of Two Countries: The Trajectory of Conservatism in Canada and US

The following is a speech delivered by Conrad Black at the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference 2023 in Ottawa on March 24, 2023. I have been asked to give a summary of the development and current condition of conservatism in the United States and Canada. Please allow me to begin with a bit of…


The Bank Meltdown Has Just Begun

Commentary Elite overseers of the U.S. banking system spent the better part of the week assuring us that all is well with it. You just have to trust them. They know. And we all know how much we can trust our overlords to tell us the truth, right? Such a wonderful track record of at…


The Decades of Lead-Up to Iraq Invasion

Commentary Twenty years ago last week, American aircraft bombarded Baghdad, starting the United States’ nine-year misadventure in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney predicted that Americans would be “greeted as liberators.” This came true, but only briefly. Iraqi citizens—having endured decades of suffering under Saddam Hussein and his vicious, kleptocratic relatives and cronies—cheered when in just…


Ultra-Orthodox Jews Have Lower Autism Rates–Is It Because They Circumcise Their Boys Differently?

According to a 2015 article published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, modern Jews have children who are more frequently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder than ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arabs. The study, which was led by Dr. Raanan Raz, who was at the Harvard School of Public Health at the time, analyzed…


The Reading Divide 

Commentary A story appeared recently in The New Yorker carrying the funereal title “The End of the English Major.” It got a lot of attention, and it’s not an easy take for people who are committed to literary culture, who think that a society without a population of active literary readers is an unhealthy one….


The CCP Consuming Russia in Its Desire for World Domination

Commentary The recent visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to his “friend forever” in Moscow, Vladimir Putin, marks a new phase in Xi’s efforts to create a new world order dominated by authoritarian regimes. The ostensible reason for the visit was to promote China’s peace plan for the war in Ukraine, but the outcome of…


The Dragon Consumes the Bear in Its Quest for World Domination

Commentary The recent visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to his “friend forever” in Moscow, Vladimir Putin, marks a new phase in Xi’s efforts to create a new world order dominated by authoritarian regimes. The ostensible reason for the visit was to promote China’s peace plan for the war in Ukraine, but the outcome of…


A Red Wave Sweeps Australia

Commentary The comprehensive electoral wipe-out of the centre-right in Australia appears to continue unabated with the defeat of the ruling Liberal-National government in the largest state, New South Wales (NSW) over the weekend. It’s 5.5 million voters (Australia has about 17.3 million voters in all) delivered their verdict in a forceful manner with an approximate…


US Needs to Support Blanket Deposit Insurance

Commentary After Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the U.S. Senate on March 22 that federal bank regulators were not considering “guarantee of all deposits,” the stock market—and bank stocks more specifically—fell precipitously. The very next day, Yellen seemed to have walked back her comments. In a speech to the U.S. House, Yellen said that regarding…


US Needs to Support Comprehensive Deposit Insurance

Commentary After Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the U.S. Senate on March 22 that federal bank regulators were not considering “guarantee of all deposits,” the stock market—and bank stocks more specifically—fell precipitously. The very next day, Yellen seemed to have walked back her comments. In a speech to the U.S. House, Yellen said that regarding…