To recognize appeasement, it’s best to learn from a master. One must not mistake Neville Chamberlain for a Nazi. He wasn’t. His antisemitism was that of T. S. Eliot — an offended sensibility, a mild disgust at there always being…
If anyone had doubts as to the seriousness of the threat to the West and its heritage of political freedom, what happened this last week in the “Mother of Parliaments” should be enough to dispel them. When Pim Fortuyn was…
The unworthy heirs of the English Common Law tradition in Ontario decided that it was appropriate to revoke Jordan Peterson’s license to practice psychology. His sin was voicing political and cultural criticism that these worthies didn’t like. Apparently, freedom of…
“In a Baltic Nation, Fear and Suspicion Stalk Russian Speakers,” announced The New York Times on December 18th: “In response to the war in Ukraine, Latvia has targeted residents with Russian passports as part of efforts to combat Moscow’s influence.” …
When Adolf Hitler started to turn Europe into his German empire, he faced military vulnerability. The newly minted country of Czechoslovakia thrust into the southeast of Germany. Its border with Germany was mountainous and, heavily fortified, posed a formidable obstacle…
Last week, Ben Shapiro engaged an audience at Cambridge University. In his short presentation that opened into an extended question and answer session, he defined and argued against the moral code which Hamas and its enablers use to justify its…
Marc Rowan, genius capitalist, worthy of Carnegie and Rockefeller in his understanding of philanthropy, going against his beloved alma mater, UPenn, for its failure of nerve against the pro-Hamas fascists. And now Bill Maher, with a short speech worthy of…
A few days ago, in rejecting the many calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza War, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “The Bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war. This is a…
Jephthah is described by the biblical Book of Judges as a somewhat disreputable character. Certainly, his birth was disreputable, but it was hardly his fault that his father’s liaison with a prostitute produced him as its fruit. Neither was it…
Much is being said right now about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The reason, of course, is the new film on Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan. The film has opened old debates and wounds about Oppenheimer’s communist…