Commentary Two years ago, major American cities were segregated by vaccine status. Mask mandates delineated safe and unsafe. Signs told us to be separate from each other. We couldn’t even encounter each other during shopping thanks to one-way grocery aisles. We were not allowed to visit families or even attend funerals. Weddings were out of…
America Will Never Give Up Its Ideals
May 10, 2023
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When Government Plays With Politics of Envy, the People Lose
Commentary Envy. It’s one of the seven deadly sins according to the Christian faith. Irrespective of one’s faith, most of us, if not all, would be agreed that envy is a destructive sentiment. It corrodes and divides. Being resentful about another person’s success or good fortune doesn’t improve one’s lot in life. Class warfare, destructive…
The Sudden Dominance of the Diversity Industrial Complex
February 17, 2023
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Little more than a decade ago, DEI was just another arcane acronym, a clustering of three ideas, each to be weighed and evaluated against other societal values. The terms “diversity, equity, and inclusion” weren’t yet being used in the singular, as one all-inclusive, non-negotiable moral imperative. Nor had they coalesced into a bureaucratic juggernaut running…
‘Equity Is Not Equality,’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Office Says
February 9, 2023
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Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s office warned state agencies and public university leaders that hiring for any reason other than merit is against the law. “Federal and state law forbid discrimination against a current or prospective employer because of that person’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or military service,” Abbott’s Chief of…
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Jobs Costing UK Taxpayers £557 Million a Year: Report
The chancellor of the Exchequer is being urged to curb billions in spending that is “dividing us into warring factions and holding our country back,” according to a Conservative think tank. On Monday, 40 Conservative MPs who are part of the think tank Conservative Way Forward (CWF), called on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to consider the…
Michael Zwaagstra: Abolishing Honours Programs in the Name of Equity is Absurd
October 13, 2022
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Commentary School board elections are heating up in Vancouver. The heat is caused, in part, by a group of trustee candidates pledging to bring back honours courses, which the current board abolished last year. Many parents were upset when the honours courses were cut, particularly since they were the only way for gifted students to…
CRT in Schools: Canadians Would Do Well to Discern the Chasmic Difference Between ‘Equity’ and ‘Equality’
Commentary Critical race theory (CRT) is a divisive cluster of notions that reduces human beings to cogs in an identity wheel, segregates them according to DNA, and strips them of individual agency and rights. But it has penetrated all our institutions with incredible speed and efficiency—on the horizon one day, ubiquitous the next. The public…
NSW Government to Focus on Increasing Women’s Opportunities in Workforce
A new expert panel will focus on empowering women and providing them with more workforce opportunities in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said in a release on Feb. 7 the Women’s Economic Opportunities Review and Expert Reference Panel will look into ways of supporting women to enter, re-enter,…
‘Religious Organisation Should Hire to Ethos’ Argues Archbishop
January 13, 2022
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In the second Religious Discrimination Bill meeting on Jan. 13, Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli stated that he would not put forward any amendments and expressed that this act will finally protect all different groups of discrimination following disability, LGBTIQ and aged groups. At the meeting, Comensoli expressed that religious schools should be allowed the right…
Equality in Servitude: From Citizen Competence to Therapeutic Despotism
January 11, 2022
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Commentary A dozen or so years ago, I took temporary leave from Georgetown University and moved to Iraq for two years to preside over The American University of Iraq-Sulaimani. Some of the young men and women enrolled in our fledgling university carried the double burden of having survived both the American invasion and the Kurdish…
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