David Solway

David Solway is a Canadian essayist, songwriter and poet. Winner of several Canada Council and Writers’ Federation Awards, the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal, and a lifetime achievement award from Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, he has published over 30 volumes of poetry, travel, translation, education theory and politics, including Canadian non-fiction bestseller The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity. His most recent book is Crossing the Jordan: on Judaism, Islam, and the West. He has also released two CDs of original songs. Solway lives in Vancouver with his wife, author and video content creator Janice Fiamengo.

Most Recent Articles by David Solway:

Killing the Canada Goose November 3, 2025
With the help of a benighted electorate that put him in power, Carney will have achieved his apparent purpose. A country rich in natural resources left unexploited by government decree will be permitted to wither in penury;
Carney’s Last Resort October 12, 2025
Canada bears all the hallmarks of a repressive, oligopolist state that has been laboring, first under Pierre Trudeau, then his son Justin, and now the faux and disingenuous Carney
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Does Canada Have a Future? January 8, 2025
For better or worse Pierre Poilievre represents the spirit of phronesis, or prudence, and should be given the chance to prove himself and, equally, to prove his doubters and detractors wrong. For now, he’s all we’ve got
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Another Look at the United Nations September 29, 2024
UN, which purports to adjudicate global tensions and lobby for “sustainable development,” will continue to bedevil the world with its fraudulent excuse for being
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The Underground People December 29, 2023
Gates, Schwab, Soros, Bezos, Fink, Zuckerberg: Living in the lap of plutocratic luxury,controlling the levers of power. Not all have commissioned underground presidios, but they are all part of the underground, a community of upscale Morlocks
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What to Do With the Terrorists? December 15, 2023
Evil demands its recompense. The death penalty for sadistic and unpardonable acts of terrorist depravity is not up for dispute. It is mandatory
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How to Describe the Left? December 10, 2023
Milei may not express himself in politically conventional terms or in the perfumed dialect of the professional politician, but sometimes it is both refreshing and pertinent not to mince words
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The Bonfire of the So-Called Vanities October 19, 2023
Regrettably, we are now experiencing, as Mario Vargas Llosa writes in “Notes on the Death of Culture,” a “manifestation of barbarism,” an eruption of boredom, and the eclipse of the integrity of mind and conscience
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Canada: the World’s Most Comfortable Gulag May 11, 2022
Learning to live with fascism, one edict at a time
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The Real Pandemic February 18, 2022
Nationally, a bureaucratic colossus has taken control of regulative governance
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Beware Liberals Bearing Gifts February 15, 2022
We should not allow ourselves to be deceived. We need to remain alert. Whenever a Liberal has something tempting to offer, you know the gift is tainted.
How Smart Is Justin Trudeau? April 25, 2016
Trudeau’s public performances in the physical and intellectual domains, as well as his documented appeal to female effusiveness, is a vivid expression of his followers’ utter lack of political sobriety, intellectual acumen and emotional maturity
Vote the Platform, Not the Man(ner) April 13, 2016
Harper was regarded by the press and a plurality of Canadians pretty much as Trump is currently viewed by establishment Republicans, sanctimonious conservatives and a partisan media
A Republican Game Plan February 19, 2016
“Trump has shown that voters like it when Republicans don’t act as though they have to be afraid of telling the truth, in harsh terms, about Democrats.”
A Lesson to Republicans in Canada’s Conservative Party Defeat February 7, 2016
Canada's Conservatives lost the election in part because they shrank from being truly conservative. Similarly, should the Republicans lose in November 2016, it will be because they failed to be truly republican
Canada, the U.S., and the Donald January 20, 2016
To summarize, the greatest symbolic and cultural difference between our two nations today, to Canada’s manifest disadvantage, is illustrated by the emergence of Donald Trump
Living with the Muslim Hum December 24, 2015
After years of studying Islam, following its bloody trail across the globe from 9/11 to the present day, unpleasant encounters with Muslims asserting their sense of privileged inviolability, tsunami of migrants
Dining Out With the Terrorists December 13, 2015
One wonders how the jihadists get away with their atrocities and from where they derive their power
Canada Awaits a Pair of Impending Catastrophes December 4, 2015
Canada has joined the cultural declension of the West and I fear there will be no turning back. Were it possible, we would now be packing our bags. The problem, of course, is where to go
The Socialist Republic of Canada October 31, 2015
Canada elects Obama-lite