Commentary To say that Elon Musk’s tenure at Twitter has been polarizing would be an understatement. He bought Twitter at a time when the social media giant was actively putting its thumb on the scale of public discourse and seemingly punishing right-wing accounts. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, compared the Trump…
To Promote Viewpoint Diversity, Elon Musk Should Emulate Thomas Jefferson
What I Learned When Students Tried to Cancel Me
Commentary Even being attacked can be educational and enlightening. In November 2020, eight official student groups published a public letter demanding that the McGill Administration rescind my Emeritus status. This was allegedly necessary in order to honor “the right of Muslims and People of Colour have to feel safe. [sic]” The groups endorsing this demand…
Newsom Grandstands on Oil Profits
February 6, 2023
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Commentary You would think Gov. Gavin Newsom would be happy with higher gas prices at the pump, and the ensuing high oil company profits. The hits to consumers encourage people to buy the electric cars his 2020 executive order mandates for all new-vehicle sales by 2035. The order even explained at the time, “Clear policies…
Removing the Monarch From the Australian $5 Note Is Unjustifiable
February 6, 2023
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Commentary Symbols matter. They tells us what the organisation or society treasures. For the Christian, faith the symbol of the cross is deeply meaningful. For a soldier willing to lay down his life for his country, the national flag is a significant emblem—in Australia, its sown on their uniform. Freedom movements, political movements, and community…
A Certain Type of Absurdity
Commentary A survey of Canadian opinion carried out for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute found that the majority of Canadians still think that prisons should remain segregated by sex: to which one is inclined to add, amen to that. All surveys of opinion are subject to caveat, of course; one can rarely be sure that they’re representative…
John Robson: The Upside to Canadians’ View That ‘Canada Is Broken’ Is That Most Are More Indignant Than Resigned
Commentary Imagine living where two-thirds of the inhabitants think “everything is broken in this country right now.” Then imagine it being good news. Because, according to a new Leger poll, if you’re a Canadian you do… and it is. Obviously, it would be better to live where the vast majority did not think things were…
Barbara Kay: Assenting to a Blanket Rule on Pronoun Use Is to Lose One’s Right to Say Aloud That the Emperor Is Naked
Commentary In 2016 and 2019, a violent Scottish thug by the name of Adam Graham raped women he had met online. After being charged, he renamed himself Isla Bryson and assumed feminine lamination (wig, cosmetics, etc.) Graham did not have a gender recognition certificate, but was nevertheless remanded to Scotland’s only women’s prison, Cornton Vale….
Central Bank Digital Currencies Could Bring Hyperinflation
Commentary There are many excuses often used to explain inflation. However, the fact is that there’s no such thing as “cost-push inflation” or “commodity inflation.” Inflation isn’t an increase in prices; it’s the destruction of the purchasing power of the currency. Cost-push inflation is more units of currency going to relatively scarce real assets. The…
‘The Elephant Song:’ Breening a Modern Play
Commentary If you’ve read my articles before, you’re probably familiar with the term “to breen.” This made-up verb, coined by “Variety” back in the 1930s, is the Old Hollywood version of bowdlerization. Named after Joseph I. Breen, it’s the process of applying the Motion Picture Production Code to film stories and scripts to render them…
Mending the Warfighter Community: A Return to the ‘Centric Force’
Commentary I don’t think we see ourselves as victims ever but we get labeled as “damaged” so we are constantly fighting distortions and that’s rough. Damaged can mean anything within the entire spectrum of “abnormal” and that’s never good. What we are dealing with is somewhat of an identity issue. We go to war and…
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