Hugo Gurdon

Apologists for backward peoples invading wealthy developed nations can't get their story straight.

Dismissing Woke 1 with a chuckle deliberately deflects discussion of the past horrors of leftism — and that's what AOC did. But it isn't how accountability works. In politics, we judge people's actions, not their idealism. Any fool can promise free stuff in Shangri-La, which is why politicians do so. But what have they done in practice? It's upon this that we should judge them.

There are two big points to make about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) suggestion that “Woke 1 was crazy.” The first is that “Woke 1” inexorably suggests Woke 2 is on the way or already here. As with software, later versions of woke will be...

For more than a decade, Democrats have watched Donald Trump succeed with a brand of politics that is crude, often coarse, and always volatile.

Destructive wildfires in Europe and the suicide of a black professor are closely linked, even though they seem utterly unconnected.

News that the national debt has risen above $40 trillion resonated like a ringing bell in my mind.

Anyone who was an adult 25 years ago can remember where they were when they heard news that Muslim terrorists had flown two passenger planes into the World Trade Center

We've all become used to computer-generated scenes of disaster — of meteors thudding into the Earth with the force of a thousand nuclear explosions, seas engulfing cities, or people flash frozen mid-stride.

A news story this week brought back a memory of my early boyhood. I was 7 years old when my father woke me one morning and told me I'd be joining him when he left for work.

The maxim “Once bitten, twice shy” never seems to apply in politics . We don't learn.