Hugo Gurdon

Washington, D.C.

Editor-in-Chief at Washington Examiner

Editor-in-Chief, Washington Examiner

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Articles

Resistance media can’t handle the truth

5 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

President Donald Trump wants to boost domestic manufacturing, but one sector has already massively increased output — of bogus news stories by hostile and biased media. High productivity of superficial, misleading, and hostile “news” has always characterized Trump’s 10 years in politics. But it’s worth examining afresh because the 2024 election briefly encouraged hope that media shock might stop the news rot.
Trouble at the northern border

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Commentary on Canada’s anti-Trumpian election result missed a key point, which is that it was due to many Canadians being anti-American bigots. I say this startling thing despite being blessed with Canadian relatives and friends whom I love, despite admiring and liking many others, and despite (perhaps because of) having for decades visited, lived in, and worked in Canada.
Will Trump make bad deals with China, Iran, and Russia?

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

President Donald Trump’s effort to strike deals simultaneously with China, Iran, and Russia will be rewarded with accolades if any of them succeed and with astonished recognition that miracles happen if all of them do. But the folly of previous presidents’ dealings with these pariah states offers a condign warning. The itch of Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to secure world-changing agreements blinded them to what they were really doing.
Review of ‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light’

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Some historical fiction is uncontroversial because it presents the past merely as a backdrop for a story that does not suggest new facts or challenge widely accepted interpretations. Other successful creations go the other way, dispensing with the truth so brazenly that they render caveats fatuous because their narratives aren’t so much revisionist history as counterfactual fantasy.
Harvard’s billions are a privilege, not an entitlement

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Harvard University’s lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from freezing billions of dollars of federal funding encapsulates a tendency among those who receive grants and other taxpayer largesse to treat these subventions not as privileges but as entitlements. There is an old insightful maxim that he who pays the piper calls the tune. It should apply as much to the nation’s most prestigious university as it does to everyone else. And as a practical matter, it does, or will.
Capitol Hill on Thune control

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump scored a big win on April 10 when the House voted for the Senate’s budget framework 216 to 214. Big? It was ’uge, as the president sometimes puts it. Here’s why. It means the 2017 tax cuts are likely to be renewed, not expire at the end of the year, thus avoiding a $4.5 trillion tax hike. This means more economic growth, more thriving businesses, more plentiful jobs, and more voters seeing conservative governance working for the good of the nation.
Here’s hoping there’s method in Trump’s tariff madness

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

There is a point in football games when a team staring defeat in the face gets desperate and starts trying trick plays and throwing Hail Mary passes. It has no option but to resort to long bombs and onside kicks because they might snatch a surprise win, and nothing else has managed to do so thus far. But the very outlandish boldness of such moves bespeaks alarm rather than confidence.
Trump’s leftist thinking on tariffs

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

There is a glaring omission in all the words spoken and written about tariffs since President Donald Trump announced his horrific new trade policies on April 2. The scale of the probable horror is clear. Protectionism looks likely in the future to stanch American growth if it is not already doing so, kill American jobs, and erode American wealth. Stock prices melted down on Wall Street in reaction, gouging everyone’s retirement savings. For once, Capitol Hill Democrats were not exaggerating.
Embarrassing displays of media blindness

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Two high-profile news executives at the end of March demonstrated the extraordinary inability of their caste to see things other than through a distorted left-wing lens. Both executives intended to defend their organizations but did so with arguments, and even more with attitudes, that underscored rather than erased the legacy media’s dishonesty, blindness, or bias about which conservatives complain and with which the public is heartily sick.
Making women’s sports fair again

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Trying to stay fit in 1980s London in my 20s, I would sometimes go running — plodding, more like — in Hyde Park, which was near my apartment. One chilly morning, as I puffed along, I saw another runner. He was circling the Round Pond, a park feature that is what its name suggests. Within a nanosecond of noticing him, without really watching him, it was obvious he was an athlete. There was something uncanny in the way he glided friction-free over the ground.