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What Ignited Antisemitism in North America?

What Ignited Antisemitism in North America?

The justifications used throughout history to hate, exclude, abuse, and murder Jews have been many and varied. In Christian countries, Jews were accused of murdering Jesus, of poisoning wells, of slaughtering Christian children whose blood was needed to make matza...

The Post-Ideological Age

The Post-Ideological Age

Conventional wisdom has it that the US and much of the Western world has polarized into right and left. These tribes are hard-core and share mutual loathing. That model of understanding pervades all popular media and consumes the culture, such that everyone feels the...

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Weaponizing the Law

The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...

2024 is Going to Give us All PTSD

2024 is Going to Give us All PTSD

The lazy days of summer serve a useful purpose. A few weeks away from everything clears the head, if one can escape the global cacophony.  It works. Try it if you can; declutter the mind, step out of the fray. Upon returning, it seems possible to see the forest...