Culture Wars

Ford Government Is Right To Halt School Renaming Process

Ford Government Is Right To Halt School Renaming Process

Senior Fellow Michael Zwaagstra supports the Ford government’s crackdown on school renaming, targeting boards like the TDSB for attempting to erase John A. Macdonald’s legacy. Yes, Macdonald was imperfect, but without him, there might not be a Canada. Renaming schools drains money and distracts from teaching, Zwaagstra argues. Honouring Macdonald preserves the country’s foundations, and Canadians owe him that.

What An Anthropologist Learned From Living Among Other Societies

What An Anthropologist Learned From Living Among Other Societies

Senior Fellow Philip Carl Salzman draws on years living among nomadic tribes to challenge the Western obsession with big government. Among the Baluch of Iran and pastoralists in India and Sardinia, he found decentralized, self-reliant societies thriving on kinship, tradition and mutual responsibility. These communities show that freedom doesn’t require bureaucracy—just strong bonds and the will to defend what matters.

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Transformers: More than Meets the Eye

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It Is Time to Return to Reality-Based Knowledge

It Is Time to Return to Reality-Based Knowledge

Cultural anthropologists venture out into the world beyond the university, to study and try to understand people and their cultures often distant geographically and different in ideas and practices from their own. To do this they employ some simple procedures, that they dignify with the label “methodology,” to ensure or at least increase the probability of reining in their own assumptions and expectations, in order to grasp the reality of the world that they have entered.

From Post-National to Patriot

From Post-National to Patriot

  In response to what is obviously a bargaining ploy by Donald Trump to use economic force to get what he wants from us, our now “former, but still there” PM has come out swinging. A defiant Trudeau, in boxing stance, told Trump (not to his face, mind you) “there...