Mikhail Gorbachev — pictured above a year or two before his death on Wednesday  — is being hailed today as the key human element in bringing about the end of a great tyranny. The other key players — Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John-Paul II — will be largely overlooked in mainstream commentary because, […]

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Writing at The Federalist, senior editor John Daniel Davidson on the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid (above): Everyone in America knows the real reason for the FBI raid: to tarnish Trump as unfit for office and to intimidate and dissuade him from running again in 2024. Nothing like this has ever happened in American history. Sen. Marco […]

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There is the owner of a tin ear at the ABC who might well be facing a spell in the naughty corner. How could it ever have been allowed to be broadcast, this item from the Tuesday morning edition of AM? Did someone not get the memo about the national broadcaster’s complete, utter and unqualified […]

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For some reason best known to himself, Nationals leader David Littleproud chose not to give newly minted senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price the shadow portfolio of Aboriginal affairs. Her maiden speech, delivered on July 27, suggests that was a grave mistake on his part. Below, a brief sample: … I personally have had more than my […]

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Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter who now publishes via Substack, has some thoughts on Australia’s COVID clown show: Australia should have been the world’s ultimate public health and COVID vaccine success story – the nail in the coffin for Team Reality and the Great Barrington Declaration. Australia did just what the Bill […]

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One byline most would never expect to see in the august pages of Commentary is that of David Zucker, who produced the gag-stacked Airplane, a flick that has amused millions and, as he modestly notes, continues to appear on most critics’ ‘best comedy’ lists. As he laments, he wouldn’t be allowed to make the film […]

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Quadrant‘s John O’Sullivan, writing at The Pipeline, weighs in on Boris Johnson and the mistake conservatives make whenever they stoop to accommodate the Left: …he had real achievements to his credit. He got Brexit done. He sent the extreme left Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, packing in the 2019 election. He put together a broad-based national […]

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Friend of Quadrant Antony Carr considers the fall of Boris Johnson: As many have pointed out, for all his drive, intelligence and sense of fun, Boris Johnson has shown himself to be a poor manager and, most important, without settled principles and careless with the truth. The Chinese sage Confucius would argue that he does […]

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Roger Kimball on the political demise of Boris Johnson: … on most of the big issues, I was at one with Boris. The biggest of the big issues, in my view, was Brexit. I do not think that partial recovery of British sovereignty would have happened absent his support. As the Tories huddle to discover […]

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Yesterday in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, a rooftop gunman opened fire on the July 4 parade, killing at least six innocent people and wounding many others. As always in such cases, the first reaction on social media was not sympathy for the victims but immediate attempts by both left and right to blame […]

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