Can you cherish a tradition of no traditions and turn Canada into a community of lack of communities? Ottawa’s General Hospital sure gave it the old postmodern try this festive season. Click here to read the rest.
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.
Are you an animal? I don’t mean as opposed to vegetable or mineral. I mean are you a beast on two legs? Click here to read the rest.
If you love your freedom, thank a Greek. Specifically Themistocles. Click here to read the rest.
The bad guys are on the move. From Iraq to Libya to Ukraine to Beijing the separate crises are starting to roll into one. Click here to read the rest.