Hugo Gurdon

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

The Left gets one thing right about President Donald Trump’s response to the Los Angeles riots: He wants a fight. That’s not the same as saying he is to blame for the violence, as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, also a Democrat, claim. He is not. Mobs that incinerate police cars, smash federal property, drop chunks of broken concrete onto vehicles from bridges, and spit at law enforcement officers are not forced to act as they do. They choose to. It is voluntary.

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

The legacy media seem beyond redemption. They’re like Macbeth, so steeped in blood that going back would be as tedious as continuing onward. So outlets that supposedly write the first draft of history remain determined to distort and deceive rather than enlighten their readers. You’d think their humiliating exposure as cover-up artists for former President Joe Biden’s mental decline would prompt them to restore some credibility.

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

For three years and more since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperial invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we have become accustomed to referring to Russia’s “war machine.” The phrase denoted a powerful and malevolent force, big and dark and dirty, capable of grinding down its enemy while uncaringly sacrificing its own infantry in great numbers.

4 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Conservative intellectuals have long lamented leftist dominance of culture. They recognize the danger of ceding culture to people who disagree with them on everything and watching their creations erode the founding values of the country. The focus is mostly on television, film, and other dominant forms of middle- and low-brow entertainment. But conservatives should engage with higher culture, too. Great literature, old and new, must be protected, championed, and nourished.

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing President Donald Trump like a balalaika. That is how to understand Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s airy announcement Tuesday in Turkey that Putin and Trump have agreed to exchange Americans held in Russian prisons for Russians detained by the United States. You can hear the soothing tinkle of music intended to lull the U.S. into yet more weeks of inaction while the tyrant in the Kremlin continues on his mission to murder Ukrainian civilians.