David Solway

David Solway


  • January 15, 2021

    Are the End Times Near?

    What we are really doing, whether we know it or not, is buying time. Western civilization and its constituent nations are too far gone to be retrofitted; our internal enemies have seen to that.

  • January 5, 2021

    The election will not stand

    It will not stand against the raw determination, the Jacksonian character, and the astute and resourceful intelligence of a president like none in modern American history.

  • December 20, 2020

    Sticking with Trump to the Bitter (or Glorious) End

    A nation presided over by a sorry puppet who has been put in place by a political, technological and wealthy elite employing counterfeit means will become progressively dysfunctional.

  • December 5, 2020

    The Great Reset and Klaus Schwab

    The time has come to implement the Great Reject before we experience the Great Regret.

  • November 30, 2020

    The New New Normal

    I have begun to feel as if I am back in East Germany. People are being indoctrinated into supine acceptance of top-down managerial policing by a political and financial elite

  • November 28, 2020

    Are the people ready to rise?

    Would most people accept the results of a fraudulent election? Heroes are few and far between.

  • November 27, 2020

    What the Election Will Come Down To

    The Fat Lady has not yet begun to warble.

  • November 23, 2020

    The capitulation conservatives

    Coddling counterfeiting and corruption.

  • November 22, 2020

    Lockdowns Are Serial Killers. End them Now.

    Self-isolating, limited sociability, the stoking of public fear and panic, and the shuttering of businesses have become the false solution to a politically ginned-up crisis

  • November 15, 2020

    Donald Trump is the only legitimate ‘President-Elect’

    Even a cursory review of electoral events indicates that a monumental swindle is in progress.

  • November 13, 2020

    The 2020 Election: Fact or Fiction?

    Biden is busy acting as if a fiction were a fact, and a media narrative a lien on reality, but he's moving too fast.

  • November 11, 2020

    Does Anyone Care about the Truth Anymore?

    The Democrat party is by any honest assessment no longer a political party but a criminal organization intent on dominating, suppressing and extorting an entire nation.

  • September 13, 2020

    The Religion of Covid

    The mask will be a communal sign, identifying believers to one another while differentiating them from the unhouseled and heretic rabble. Like the mark of Cain, it confers an aura of special dispensation

  • August 23, 2020

    A Revolution in Sensibility -- and What to Do About It

    The virus of collectivism has taken hold among the young, and equality of personal opportunity has yielded to equality of forced outcome.

  • July 21, 2020

    The Age of Conspiracy

    Not all bruited conspiracies are fabulist absurdities; some are actually real, actually policies deceptively put in place to sway multitudes and engineer desired electoral results.

  • July 16, 2020

    Marxo-Capitalism at Work

    One of the great enigmas of our day is the fact that the most devoted and powerful socialists among us happen to be capitalist billionaires

  • July 12, 2020

    Descending into Chaos

    “That breakdown is upon us…Unless new leaders come forth who understand their duty to maintain the rule of law, the country will not pull back from disaster.”

  • July 5, 2020

    The Devil’s Pitchfork: Seeking the Origin of Our Present Troubles

    A war that began in our universities against three intimately related phenomena: self-governing personhood, historical memory, and the possession of property

  • June 28, 2020

    Then They Came for Jesus

    The Alabaster Heresy and other useless controversies over the color of the Lord and Savior of Christianity

  • June 21, 2020

    An Uncivil War

    For better or for worse, America will either persist as a nation-state, internally fractured or under a socialist dispensation, or devolve into a jigsaw of smaller nation-states.

  • June 9, 2020

    We Have Entered a Looking-Glass World

    We live in an age characterized by belief -- that is, belief in things that do not exist, belief in complete figments of unanchored imagination, abstractions that have no contact with or bearing on reality

  • May 5, 2020

    The Challenge of Decoupling from China

    Getting the Chinese out of our research and tech institutions presents a host of complications.

  • April 19, 2020

    Swans of a Different Color

    The next catastrophe might not be a virus

  • March 20, 2020

    Justin Trudeau's Canada Is Obama's Dream for America

    Justin Trudeau is the worst prime minister in Canadian history. Like his American counterpart Barack Obama, he is both a know-nothing and a do-nothing leader, and an unmitigated disaster to the well-being of his country.

  • March 6, 2020

    It's All in the Stars

    There is no material evidence to substantiate the case against Harvey Weinstein.

  • February 25, 2020

    House Hunters: A Window on a Derelict Culture

    Here come the throuples....

  • February 17, 2020

    Canada: A Totalitarian State-in-Progress

    It can't happen here? Think again.

  • December 29, 2019

    Common Sense and Common Folk

    The difference between doers and talkers is an old story.

  • December 7, 2019

    The Transrealism of the Left

    Severing gender from sex is a powerful strategy of the Left.

  • August 21, 2019

    Short-Circuiting the Natural Love of Learning in Young People

    Deprived of genuine instruction in the academic disciplines, indoctrinated in the political shibboleths of the time, and coddled into a state of self-assured autonomy of judgment.

  • July 27, 2019

    Computer-based Teaching of Remedial English Skills Just Doesn’t Work

    There is no substitute for traditional learning and teaching, for books, study and a revival of the ancestral curriculum if students are to learn how to write and think.

  • July 19, 2019

    Prison Death: A Sign of the Times

    The Western tradition of due process has gone the way of the dodo. Thanks, feminists.

  • July 8, 2019

    Why Big Tech Should Not Be Viewed as a Private Business

    What we are witnessing is the deployment of a totalitarian methodology justified as the legitimate practice of a private company.

  • July 3, 2019

    On Moving to the Wacky, Wacky West

    Where the lunatic fringe makes its home.

  • June 16, 2019

    Law, Justice, and God: An Awkward Fit

    The restoration of moral conviction and cultural stability is dependent on belief in a higher Power, but such belief cannot be imposed by political fiat or generated artificially.

  • June 7, 2019

    Triggering the Academic Lynch Mob

    The unforgivable transgression of Professor Duchesne.

  • May 21, 2019

    Confessions of a Recovering White Supremacist

    What was I thinking?

  • March 2, 2019

    Politics and Music

    Among its many cultural casualties, the Left has also destroyed most of popular music.

  • January 26, 2019

    Honoring Country (Music)

    Country music has almost always been counter-counter-culture.  

  • September 27, 2018

    Surviving Our 'Survivors'

    Every female plaintiff, regardless of age and circumstance, now is a "survivor."

  • September 26, 2018

    Feminism in the Schools

    At every level of the education ecosystem, thanks in large measure to the viral influence of feminism, it is obvious that students are not being prepared for life in the real world of basic knowledge, work, and relationships.

  • September 14, 2018

    Toxic Feminism

    With its reliance on false assumptions, phony statistics, affective resentment, and glib verbosity, feminism is the most potent carcinogen attacking both the body social and the health of the education system.

  • September 9, 2018

    The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

    To be white, Christian, and proud of one's heritage is now the kiss of death in academia.

  • August 24, 2018

    A is for Activist?

    Trained to follow a leftist curricular agenda, a majority of K-12 teachers are set on molding the social justice warriors, anti-free market revolutionaries, radical environmentalists, global warmists, and feminist Furies of the future.

  • August 17, 2018

    Marxism and Marriage

    Destroying the family is the key prerequisite for the socialist revolution.

  • August 11, 2018

    The Problem with Gay Marriage

    When the institution of marriage is compromised, the underpinnings of Western society will inevitably collapse. 

  • August 4, 2018

    Socialism and Equality

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a lightweight even on the Bernie Sanders scale, is merely the latest in a long line of what we call today "democratic socialists."

  • July 31, 2018

    Is There a Cure for the Modern University?

    Sometimes collapse is the only remedy.

  • July 17, 2018

    Thank the Lord Donald Trump Is Not an 'Intellectual'

    Too crude and rough hewn.

  • July 5, 2018

    Guilt by Inadvertent Association

    Should we never cite a wise word from someone who also said things we disagree with – even if it's sympathizing with a loathsome political movement?

  • June 26, 2018

    A Double Injustice Throws a Scare into the Nation's Judges

    First a young man accused of sexual assault – now the judge who sentenced him. The message to our  judges handling sexual assault cases is clear.

  • June 8, 2018

    The End of Merit

    Everyone is at risk when the meritocracy principle submits to the social justice compulsion and feel-good dynamics. 

  • May 28, 2018

    The Feminist Endgame

    Feminists will win once they've succeeded in banishing humor.

  • May 18, 2018

    The Plague of 'Theory' in Educational Discourse

    Where not entirely balderdash, it is sheer Marxist bombast.

  • April 4, 2018

    The Divine Frenzy of Feminism

    In demanding obeisance to temperamental fury at the expense of the principle of order, feminists and their allies have unleashed a storm of discontent, resentment, misrule, and social turmoil.

  • March 19, 2018

    The People's Republic of Canada

    Bulletin: Canadian leftists don't like Trump. 

  • March 11, 2018

    'Believe All Women' at Your Peril

    We're constantly and aggressively commanded to "believe all women." Has anyone asked why we should?

  • March 5, 2018

    What Is #MeToo Good For?

    You couldn't devise a better formula for ruining men's lives.

  • February 24, 2018

    Joe McCarthy and Lillian Hellman: The Hated Patriot vs. the Beloved Commie

    The patriot is exonerated, while the commie is condemned.  But, as always, the left has things exactly backwards.

  • January 31, 2018

    A Brief History of the Fake News Media

    For far too long, I was convinced that the media were, on the whole, reliable purveyors of the news. For nearly three years I freelanced happily at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

  • January 22, 2018

    Disabilities R Us

    Academia has expanded the definition of "disabled" to include any and every invented student excuse.  The result is chaos.

  • January 17, 2018

    The Left Will Always Be with Us

    No defeat will ever be enough to eradicate leftism.  The ideology will always exist and will always need to be fought.

  • January 1, 2018

    The Death of Academic Rigor

    The agenda of the academic left is to create a dumbed-down, alliterate and illiterate, and politically indoctrinated generation. 

  • December 18, 2017

    Why I Quit Teaching

    It wasn't just the liberal groupthink or the mob mentality among the teachers.  There was a worse reason on top of those.

  • November 5, 2017

    Is Islamic Reform Possible?

    Unless we come to our senses, realize that we are in the midst of a 1,400-year civilizational war, and take appropriate measures, the sequel is a foregone conclusion.

  • May 14, 2017

    Review Course: The Birds and the Bees

    A few facts about sex for our grown-up children.

  • May 4, 2017

    Obama, the Anti-President

    As chief executive, Obama was the primary facilitator of the neo-Marxist revolution that is splitting the nation into warring moieties.  He remains both its operational mover and symbolic architect.

  • April 24, 2017

    Who Is Obama?

    Obama’s very emptiness holds the key to the ease with which he has managed to deceive and exploit his way to the presidency.

  • April 9, 2017

    The War against Reality

    Word to liberals: Reality is a formidable opponent.  It never loses.

  • March 28, 2017

    A Plan to Reform Our Failing Universities

    A healthy civic life, cultural and economic resilience, innovation and invention, and a sense of national purpose all begin and end with education. 

  • March 14, 2017

    The German Dilemma

    Germany has its memory of the Holocaust on one hand and national survival on the other.

  • January 20, 2017

    A Plan for Draining the Swamp

    There’s a lot more swamp than we might have thought.

  • January 18, 2017

    United We Fall

    The nation is now hopelessly divided and will remain so. Unless Trump recognizes this unpalatable reality, much of his decision-making and hard work will go for nought.

  • January 13, 2017

    Getting It Right

    It’s not so hard with common sense and a few simple rules.

  • December 12, 2016

    The End of the University?

    Today, for the most part, the university is no longer recognizable as an institution of higher learning. 

  • November 13, 2016

    The Shaping of Our Destiny

    What's God got to do with it?  Maybe nothing.  Or maybe everything.

  • November 2, 2016

    How the Left Muzzles Opposition

    Official and quasi-official bodies that purport to defend "human rights" are perhaps the most potent agencies enforcing conformity to leftism.

  • September 13, 2016

    Why Socialism Will Always Be with Us

    The product of human frailty and quixotic desire laced with corruption, delusion, and the insensate hunger for power.

  • August 27, 2016

    Reconsidering the Female Franchise

    Has female suffrage strengthened or weakened Western nations? 

  • August 16, 2016

    The Left Refuses to Learn

    A plague of ignorance and intellectual torpidity has descended like a cloud of locusts on the mental horizon of a once privileged but now vassal culture that no longer wants to think for itself or to work for the truth. 

  • July 30, 2016

    Feminism Attacks at All Levels

    Feminism will ultimately fail for the same reason that socialism always fails. But, like socialism, it will wreak enormous damage on its way to cultural and political disaster. 

  • July 5, 2016

    Shooting the Feminist Sheriff

    Our cultural leadership is hopelessly corrupt, and patience with its malfeasance is neither a virtue nor an option.

  • April 22, 2016

    Distrust Yourself before You Distrust the Candidate

    Trump may or may not be the best man for the presidency, but his qualifications for the job have been obscured by an unremitting campaign of calumny and misapprehension.

  • March 5, 2016

    The Ideal of Perfection in Faith and Politics

    Is there a single factor that distinguishes the philosophies that enable human flourishing from those that inevitably produce mass misery and political disarray? 

  • February 15, 2016

    A Message to Republicans

    If the GOP wants to win, it should learn how not to lose.

  • January 30, 2016

    The Canadian Temper: A Warning to America

    Beware Canadians bearing gifts.

  • January 18, 2016

    Canada, the U.S., and the Donald

     Though we have a Canadian Obama, we will never have a Canadian Trump, and that’s too bad.

  • November 1, 2015

    M-Day: The Invasion of the West

    Self-hatred fuels the outreach to migrants; we have become our own fifth column, the multicultural architects of our own destruction.

  • February 15, 2014

    Remembering Barry Rubin

    Honoring the real man.

  • January 18, 2014

    The Reign of Collective Stupidity

    As Churchill said, "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

  • October 8, 2011

    A Point in Time

    A review of conservative sage David Horowitz's latest book.