Ideological Tug-of-War

And all at once, a sigh of relief could be heard in boardrooms across the globe. The French presidential election ended not with a bang, or a whimper, but beads of perspiration ...

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Vive le Choix

The Fifth French Republic was the creation of General de Gaulle. Contemptuous of what he called the "€œregime of the parties,"€ which saw weak governments come and go and the ...

Will Russiagate Backfire on the Left?

The big losers of the Russian hacking scandal may yet be those who invested all their capital in a script that turned out to based on a fairy tale. In Monday’s Intelligence ...

Back to Business

The Electoral College has spoken, and it's full steam ahead for President-to-be Trump. Many foreigners"€”and I daresay a number of Americans too"€”are puzzled by the Electoral ...

Eating Humble Pie and Hitler Crow

In last week's column, I wished the Trump camp good luck, while taking great pains to not make a prediction regarding the outcome of the election. In my private life, I was not so ...

The Sailer Strategy

As the Duke of Wellington more or less said after the Battle of Waterloo, it was a damn close-run thing. But the Trump campaign triumphed using what my editor at VDARE, Peter ...

Hatfield Clan

Revenge of the Yahoos

A fundamental but hugely unacknowledged divide in America is the intergalactically large chasm between urban and rural culture. The city slickers and the country bumpkins might as ...

Democracy Will Survive

This morning (Nov. 1) The Times (London, not New York) had a gloomy leading article. Reflecting on what it described as the "€œdismal choice"€ facing the American electorate, ...

A Woman Should Vote With Her Husband

This election is going to have unprecedented political infidelity. A good 20 percent of husbands for Trump predict their wife won"€™t vote with them. This is wrong for a number ...

An Establishment in Panic

Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would accept defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump replied, “I will tell you at the time. ...

The Week of Maximum Overdrive

There are less than three weeks left before Election Day and if the next two are anything like this one, we"€™re going to have a heart attack. On Monday, James O"€™Keefe ...

Rigging Elections

Ironically, the most far-reaching scheme to rig this and future American elections isn"€™t being plotted in the Kremlin (as Hillary Clinton and the ruling media warn). Nor is it ...

Is the System Rigged? You Betcha.

“Remember, it’s a rigged system. It’s a rigged election,” said Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Saturday. The stunned recoil in this city suggests this ...

Bill and Hillary Clinton

Sexual Politics

Late last week, the respectable media was shocked, shocked to discover that Donald Trump is a horndog of almost the same caliber as his golf buddy Bill Clinton. One advantage of ...

Donald Trump

The Public Execution of a Manwhore

For me, the most disappointing takeaway from the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tapes was his stark admission that a woman once turned down his sexual advances. Even more ...

Aborting the Trump Revolution

In taking that $915 million loss in 1995, and carrying it forward to shelter future income, Donald Trump did nothing wrong. By both his family and his business, he did everything ...


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