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The Unfair Demonization of Plastic Bags
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The CDC Covered Up the Vaccine’s Risks
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The Origin of 6 Feet of Distance
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Can Argentina’s New President Succeed?
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What Will Become of Cities?
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When Did Governments Become so Ridiculous?
World media this morning is breathlessly reporting on what they say is huge and important news. Two hundred people who claim to speak for billions of others, because they happen to have a title associated with a government post and are involved with the United...
It’s Not Too Early to Name the Decade
The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene. Try as I might, I cannot understand the last one. Regardless,...
How to Be Sick With Intelligence and Dignity
Writing with a second bout of COVID—yes, it’s annoying but I’ll get over it—I’m thinking about all that we’ve forgotten about sickness over the last four years, and also what we’ve learned and relearned. It’s been a very strange time, when ruling class interest groups...
The Globalists Want to Cure Your Loneliness
Are you seeking social connection in these post-lockdown times of fragmentation, disorientation, sadness, economic loss, and ill-health? You are not alone. It’s a problem all over the world. Three years ago, our social, economic, political, and cultural institutions...
The Censorship Began Earlier and Went Further Than We Thought
There was some sense in the air in the spring of 2020 that many things were not quite normal. Here we had most governments in the world locking down their populations with extreme policies, wrecking economies and long-settled traditions of rights and liberties, while...
Malicious Stalking as a Literary Device
Airport bookstores are often filled with customers, and surely some buy. I don’t. I just like to see what books among many millions of possible candidates land in such prime real estate. As a publisher, I’m aware of the herculean efforts, vast resources, and network...
The COVID Caper Gradually Unravels
Think back to those grim days of mid-March 2020. Many things did not make sense. There were screams about a new virus but no tests available for anyone to find out if we had the dreaded disease or not. The main question in everyone’s mind was: how can I find out if I...