Gerard Baker

As the people of Iran brave another intensifying crackdown by their rulers after another effort to reclaim their basic rights from one of the world’s most repressive regimes, my question is: Where are the protests in the West? Specifically, where are all ... See more

In David Lean’s classic 1957 movie, “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” Alec Guinness plays the punctiliously correct English Col. Nicholson leading his fellow prisoners of war in dutiful observance of a wartime code of honor. His determination that they do a... See more

An old Kremlin joke about Vladimir Putin is that the Russian president has only three trusted advisers: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. I was reminded of the modern czar’s historically animated ambitions by a report in the news... See more

The lawfare Democrats waged against Donald Trump during and after his first term was one of the main reasons behind his comeback. It united the Republican Party around his candidacy in 2024 and animated its voters to support him against what they saw as t... See more

I was minding my own business in a Manhattan coffee shop last Thursday when a man wearing a Harris-Walz T-shirt began loudly denouncing Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Within minutes a pair of armed masked men charged into the cafe and bundled him ... See more