Welcome to the site of author Gwynne Dyer.
Gwynne Dyer is an historian and independent journalist, has published several books and has had his articles widely syndicated for many years. He is also available for university and corporate speaking engagements.
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Is America Back? By Gwynne Dyer If the question is: ‘Is America Back?’, then the answer must be: ‘No.’ At least not in ways that are meaningful to non-Americans, who make up 96% of the world’s population. For Americans, it’s a bit more nuanced. Nothing at all will change until
Aluf Benn’s Despair By Gwynne Dyer Aluf Benn, the editor of the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, has been a steady voice of moderation and common sense for a long time amid the dogmatism and extremism of so many other observers, but he is about to give up. This is what he
Has the Wind Changed? By Gwynne Dyer It has been quite a week. First we had ‘Lula’ – Luiz Inácio da Silva (as nobody but his mother ever called him) – defying everybody’s expectations. After winding up two million votes behind his challenger, Flávio Bolsonaro, in the first round of
Israeli Election: No Change By Gwynne Dyer According to the 1970s anarchist slogan, ‘No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in’. That’s certainly true for the election in Israel this month (27 October), even if the winner is not Prime Minister Binyamin (‘Bibi’) Netanyahu himself. All the
India: Cockroach Uprising By Gwynne Dyer India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is technically not upper caste, but he does have a high opinion of himself. “When my mother was alive, I used to believe that I was born biologically,” Modi told an interviewer two years ago. “After she passed away,
The Moment of Maximum Danger By Gwynne Dyer A long time ago I was interviewing a professor at the University of Michigan (whose name I cannot recall) on various topics of no great interest. I was about to give up when I accidentally asked the right question. “Have any major