The intersection of music and politics has been one of the most striking features of modern culture. Almost all of the nation-building movements that swept through the West after the American and French revolutions owe some of their energy to the emotional appeal of...
An environmental activist with the group Extinction Rebellion DC scales the Wilson Building next to a sign that reads "No New Fossil Fuels," as part of an Earth Day rally against fossil fuels in Washington on April 22, 2022. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) In...
Climate activists rally to urge politicians to stand against climate denial in New York on Jan. 9, 2017. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images) According to various sources, “denialism” is the practice of denying the validity of something for which there’s irrefutable proof....
Canadian school trustee is canceled for sharing traditional views
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...
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...
Somewhere around the mid-1960s the conventional conservative model of the English grammar school was finally over-turned by a new-age, liberal-progressive intellectual alliance of “progressive educators.” This shift of power and influence to the left led to changes in...
Part 2 of a 5 part series
Part 1 of a 5 part series
Traveling to Portugal in early April, I came across an English-language newspaper serving the country’s Algarve region. The Portuguese paper reported on a Positive News Magazine summary of a recent King’s College London study that found the UK is “becoming more...
To defend liberty it’s critical to recognize the left’s enormous appetite for the pursuit of unfounded allegations. In early adult life, the iconic communist philosopher Karl Marx mused about being a soul “once true to God,” but “chosen for Hell.” He candidly...
Early in February, The Epoch Times reported on a story about Josh Alexander, a 16-year-old student who was arrested at St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario. Reports said that following a suspension in November, Josh had tried to attend class while he...
People would be wise to think more critically about alleged racial conflicts in the United States and Canada. In the summer of 2019, New York Times journalists led by Nikole Hannah-Jones launched the “1619 Project.” Its purpose was to revise history by placing the...
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell For more than a century of socialist cultural advance, man’s capacity for independent thought and free expression has been in a state of...