I am not sure why a nuptial sonnet first wandered to mind when I heard President Donald Trump had issued a full pardon to Canada’s premier historian/journalist, but its first line very naturally did. Black is at his most vigorous and inventive when it comes to the scourging of left-wing journalists. All this is confessedly a digression but the writings and pronouncements of Conrad Black are worth a digression and more. Back to the salient consideration, Trump’s lifting of the stigma of criminal conviction for Black. I do not think it is for supporting him in a time of political cholera that Trump issued the pardon.

Source: National Post May 17, 2019 18:06 UTC