Canada stands tall
There was a moment this week in which I felt very proud to be Canadian. There could be moments like that in any...
They who confront false gods
We have just celebrated our northern Thanksgiving; and I, for one, am still assimilating an infusion of pheasant, stuffed with wild rice; of lamb...
End our ‘multiuniversities’
Before leaving the topic of, “Education, Need to get government out of,” in my naive Sunday series on “What is to be done,” let...
Redemption through paperbacks
They look so frail, now—this “parcel of Penguins” that has resurfaced from my own distant past. They are from a time less than half...
Violence in the name of religion
Allow me to preface today’s thought with a short bibliography (two books). These works will not be assigned: I’ve scanned the one, and read...
In search of a meaningful education
Gentle reader and I are enduring my series of Sunday columns in which I consider not “what is wrong with the world” but rather,...
A police-patrolled brothel
By striking down all laws that limited the practice of prostitution in Canada, this week, Judge Susan Himel, of the Ontario Superior Court, was...
Ban the what?
It would appear that a significant thing has happened—an act of war with extraordinary consequences—without anyone getting visibly upset. Perhaps I am understating: but...
Get the state out of education
If you could completely privatize just one government function, what would that be?
Without much hesitation, my answer to that question would be, education—in the...
Breaking the taboo
In the Swedish Riksdag election this week, 20 seats were won by the “racist, anti-immigrant, far right” Sweden Democrat Party. Only 329 were not.
The...
The outsider is coming inside
Polls are said to take the pulse of a nation. The pulse of a healthy patient remains fairly stable, with minor fluctuations through the...
Articulating freedom
In this space last week, I warned my readers that I’d embarked on an eccentric little journey. Inspired, somewhat, by the Tea Party phenomenon...
A beautiful soul
The easiest columns become the hardest to write. When I learned that Anne Roche Muggeridge had died, my first thought was incommunicable; but my...
The biggest non-story of the year
Much has been said and written over the Florida pastor who was threatening to burn copies of the Koran last week—quite amazing quantities of...
Our cynical democracy
Learned a new word this week: “bobbleheads.” More precisely, I learned a new metaphor, having heard the word itself long before, applied to those...