Promises Kept Trump promised to close America’s open borders and he has: illegal daily border crossings are at a 15-year low. He promised to rescue America’s culture from elitists who have replaced merit with ethnicity as the ticket to advancement and he has: government and private sector institutions, most notably diversity enthusiast Black Rock, which […]
Any doubts your columnist had that newspapers are the first rough draft of history disappeared as he watched his wife make use of hundreds of American newspaper reports of Winston Churchill’s 1929 and 1931 US lecture tours to enrich her century-later book on the great man. So as a gift to future historians, here is […]
Donald Trump inherits an economy that is somewhere between healthy and booming, although nevertheless with some looming problems. It is growing at what seems to be a three per cent annual rate, available jobs equal the number of unemployed, unemployment is low, real wages are rising, CEOs are optimistic that replacing the Biden team with […]
You can call what America is going through a swing to the right. You can call it an historic inflection point. You can call it the end of the era of what has been called progressive politics. You can call it a new paradigm. But these terms do not fully capture what is about to […]
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,” observed John Adams, the Founding Father who served as the second President of the United States. That was in 1770. We live in a different time, one in […]
The surprising thing about the reaction of American Jews to the current wave of virulent anti-Semitism is their surprise. The war launched by Hamas did not create a wave of anti-Semitism: it revealed a previously unnoticed cancer lurking under the skin of American civil life. It was always there, undetected by generations that came to political adulthood […]
The campaign has established important things. Joe Biden, who continues periodically to insist he is running for the Senate, is a nice man, empathy oozing from every pore. Trump is not a nice man, not an empathetic bone in his body. Trump supporters are hoping that Leo Durocher, then manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was […]
On Friday the over-stressed air traffic controllers at New York’s busy LaGuardia airport claimed that so many of their colleagues had stayed at home rather than work without pay that they couldn’t safely handle the traffic. So the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) halted some incoming and outbound flights. With another missed payday due at the […]
US immigration tussle could lead to another government shutdown * Recorded before the President made his latest proposal. Another government shutdown in the US looms, as Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on immigration. We speak to US economist Irwin Stelzer from the Hudson Institute in Washington.
Returning from Davos, the gathering of the global elite who had never before seen fit to invite this exhibitionist television celebrity, familiar with the bankruptcy courts, to eschew Big Macs in favor of canapés for a few days, Donald Trump faces a more demanding test next Tuesday, when he delivers his first State of the […]