Dominic Green

2 weeks ago | compactmag.com | Dominic Green

Frederick Forsyth, who died on June 9 at the age of 86, was a man of action—Royal Air Force fighter pilot, reporter in postcolonial Africa’s civil wars, even an MI6 spy—who became a novelist of action. Forsyth wrote thrillers—14 of them, as well as some short story collections, selling an estimated 75 million books. His first three novels are the classics: The Day of the Jackal (1971), The Odessa File (1972), and The Dogs of War (1974).

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Dominic Green

The media, universities and other institutions are crucial to America’s national security. In the U.S. and across Western democracies, the nonprofit, media and education sectors have become staging grounds for policies that lack democratic support. These aren’t merely outsourced partners of the administrative state. They are a parallel order, a successor state in the making. Hence Harvard’s defiance of President Trump, and most of the media’s defiance of reality on Joe Biden’s fitness for office.

2 weeks ago | freebeacon.com | Dominic Green

LONDON—Iggy Pop hobbles to the side of the stage at the Alexandra Palace, rocks back and forth on his shorter right leg like a high jumper who left his pole in the changing room, and bounds toward the microphone as the band kicks into "TV Eye." Shedding the formality of his waistcoat, and having omitted to wear a shirt, he contorts his bare, sagging, crepe-skinned but tanned torso and sings the blues. "See that cat, down on her back," Pop bellows in a fruity baritone.

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Dominic Green

Greta Thunberg is grifting at sea. The moonfaced Swedish malcontent and 11 other Hamas supporters left the Sicilian port of Catania on the Madleen on the morning of June 1, destination Gaza. If, that is, the Israelis let them land. Thunberg is an old salt. On May 1, technical difficulties ended the environmentalist elf’s first attempt to enter a war zone in support of Islamists on a ship chartered by and for Islamists.

3 weeks ago | thefp.com | Dominic Green

LONDON — On Monday, Britain sentenced Hamit Coskun, 51, to pay £240 (roughly $325) for burning a copy of the Quran and shouting “Islam is religion of terrorism” outside the Turkish embassy in London. Coskun’s behavior was obnoxious, but not illegal: Britain abolished its blasphemy laws in 2008. His case shows that they are returning under the guise of maintaining “public order.” In a tense and divided society, free speech is a luxury that the government cannot afford. Coskun got off with a fine.