Getting drawn into discussions of this supposed movie about Islam is a fool’s game. Who made it? Why? Is it the worst film ever? Does it even exist? None of that matters. Click here to read the rest.
What really happened in the Quebec election? A lot of things. But the short answer is, voters elected legislators. Click here to read the rest.
Let me tell you what really happened in the Quebec election. Voters went “Ugh.” When you see a separatist boasting that she’s just been elected premier of Quebec, it’s easy to think we’re back to Jacques Parizeau’s never-ending visit to the dentist. But that’s not what happened.
For a person who hates politics, I sure can’t get enough of it. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, call your office. But my excuse for staring obsessively at things like the Republican National Convention is that government is important especially when it’s done badly. And right now its general air of dreary malevolence is a big part of the problem. Click here to read the rest.
Political conventions are strange tribal gatherings whose frequent emotional outbursts, frenzied responses to obscure issues and peculiar sense of embattled joy might prove upsetting to normal people. But for all their weirdness they are important tools of self-government because, at them, party insiders show you who they think they are. Click here to read the rest.