The modern world really is upside down. Including that business where Facebook and Apple pay to freeze hi-tech employees’ eggs and almost nobody goes “Oh, that’s weird.” Click here to read the rest.
Just about the last ditch for people who deny the West is under siege by radical Islam is feeble pleading in the alternative: Jihadis are not attacking us, but if they are we started it. American foreign policy is provocative. Israel is provocative. We travel thousands of miles to drop bombs on them. No wonder they blow us up… not that they do, of course. But if they did, you know… just saying. Click here to read the rest.
It seems odd to be arguing whether Nathan Cirillo’s murder and the assault on Parliament was terrorism without any effort to discuss what terrorism is. Terrorism isn’t just a word for extreme badness. It’s a particular kind of evil, with particular methods and goals. Click here to read the rest.
What causes radicalization? It’s clearly a question we can’t afford to ignore. Click here to read the rest.
Don’t worry about Ebola. Government is on the job. Oh, you don’t find that reassuring? Click here to read the rest.
It is a credit to our system that Parliament debated our Iraq mission. Unfortunately they had a partisan squabble over whether Canada is doing too much when we needed a statesmanlike discussion of whether we are doing too little. Click here to read the rest.
When exactly did vacuous ignorance become a boast in politics? Click here to read the rest.
The Ontario Progressive Conservative party isn’t just running around like a chicken with no head. Its leadership candidates are promising when it gets a head it will be empty. It matters, even if you don’t live in Ontario, because this relentless quest for lack of ideas is everywhere in modern politics. Click here to read the rest.