CONRAD BLACK

Toronto, Canada

Conrad Black is a Contributing Editor of the Sun.

Lord Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, was Chairman of Hollinger International Inc. and a founding director of the New York Sun.

Latest Articles

AP/Eric Gay — Migrants are led to a processing area after they crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States.

Fiasco of Linking Immigration Reform and Foreign Aid Signals Need for Leadership in the Congress

The Republicans should start by stripping away the phony Democratic pretense that what is going on on the southern border has anything to do with immigration.

By CONRAD BLACK

|Feb 19, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Bebeto Matthews — The United Nations General Assembly after a vote on a resolution calling on Israel to uphold legal and humanitarian obligations in its war with Hamas, December 12, 2023.

Discovery of Terrorist HQ Under UN Building in Gaza Means It’s Time To Reform the UN Itself

Links between Unrwa and Hamas illustrate how this now thoroughly dysfunctional organization has become an insult to all civilized countries.

By CONRAD BLACK

|Feb 17, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Andrew Harnik — President Biden speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Statuary Hall at the Capitol, February 1, 2024.

A Resurgent Trump Heightens Democrats’ Fears Over the Re-Election Prospects for Biden, Their ‘Human Gaffe Machine’

The struggle over President Biden’s renomination, like dogs fighting under a blanket, makes it impossible to judge who is winning, though it is clear that the contest is in progress.

By CONRAD BLACK

|Feb 13, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Matt Rourke — President Biden speaks at Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, January 5, 2024.

Democrats, If They Move Fast, Could Change Candidates in Time for an Electoral Indian Summer in the Fall

The economy may be improving, but not fast enough for the question of whether Americans are in better financial condition than four years ago.

By CONRAD BLACK

|Feb 6, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Andrew Harnik, file — President Biden walks along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas, January 8, 2023.

Democrats’ Handling of the Border Crisis Is a Debacle That Ranks With President Biden’s Flight From Afghanistan

And it is worse because of the complicity of the Republican leadership in the Senate.

By CONRAD BLACK

|Jan 29, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File — President Trump speaks on January 6, 2024, at Clinton, Iowa.

Five-Alarm Panic Erupts Among Democratic Party Bosses Who Rescued Candidate Biden From the Ditch Four Years Ago

If Donald Trump regains the presidency, his victory will be seen as a watershed moment in the reinforcement of America’s constitutional democracy.

By CONRAD BLACK

|Jan 22, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Carolyn Kaster — President Trump speaks during a Fox News Channel town hall at Des Moines, Iowa, January 10, 2024.

Idea That Trump Was Finished as a Political Force Looks To Be Put Paid as the First Votes of the Election Are Due To Be Cast

The 45th president could win a majority of votes in the four-candidate race in Iowa today.

By CONRAD BLACK

|Jan 16, 2024|

Opinion (Other)

AP/Mike Groll — Gold, the basis of monetary value, at the U.S. Mint at West Point, New York, 2012.

A Move to a Hard Currency Standard Is Coming Into Focus as the Best Way To Fix Canada’s Teetering Economy

Could the country — by fixing its currency to a combination of precious metals, oil, basic housing, and food — emerge as the leader in a world economy badly in need of reform?

By CONRAD BLACK

|Jan 13, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Vadim Ghirda — Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored transporter outside Kiev March 31, 2022.

Russia, in the Battle of Ukraine, Flunks Out as a Great Power

Unfortunately, there has been no indication of the future of American policy other than in ‘whatever’ and implicitly, ‘as long as it takes.’

By CONRAD BLACK

|Jan 10, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Artie Walker Jr., file — President Trump speaks at a rally at Summerville, South Carolina, September 25, 2023.

Why, in the Coming Election, the 2020 Result Needs To Be Undone, Not Replicated

Unheard-of feats of electoral skulduggery would be necessary to defeat Trump now.

By CONRAD BLACK

|Dec 18, 2023|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Rebecca Blackwell — President Trump announces a third run for the White House as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago at Palm Beach, Florida, November 15, 2022.

Eleven Months From the Election It Looks as If Trump’s Enemies Might Have To Start Thinking the Unthinkable

The American public appears more discountenanced by the politicization of the justice system than by the alleged infelicities of Candidate Trump.

By CONRAD BLACK

|Dec 12, 2023|

Opinion (Other)

Secretary Kissinger on October 12, 1973 at Washington.

When Henry Kissinger Died at 100, It Could Be Said That His Death Was Premature

In Vietnam, Kissinger and Nixon salvaged the Democrats’ war, which the Democrats deserted and finally exploited the Watergate debacle to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and deliver that country to the vengeance of the Communists.

By CONRAD BLACK

|Dec 4, 2023|

Opinion (Columnists)