April 7 was the sixth month anniversary of the October 7 Hamas pogrom and the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas. For those who have been watching this war closely it was particularly disconcerting. It was on that…
State-sanctioned euthanasia has been on the rise for years, and not just among terminally ill patients. Young people in their 20s and 30s who are struggling with disabilities and depression are increasingly turning to the practice. On today’s episode of The…
Last week, Humboldt County, California, recognized March 19 as “Two-Spirit day of Celebration and Awareness.” A county supervisor, Natalie Arroyo, proudly noted that the holiday’s celebration would be the “first of its kind” in the United States. Immediately following the…
I want to like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Online Harms Act. Children are ostensibly its biggest beneficiaries. Bill C-63 aims to shield minors from easy access to graphic pornography, online predators, and other forms of exploitation. Given that Canada…
Canada has taken step after step to expand citizens’ access to euthanasia ever since 2016, when it first legalized the practice it euphemistically labeled “medical assistance in death,” or MAID. Officials recently announced that the Canadian government will be delaying…
Earlier this week, it was reported by the Financial Times that American authorities had stopped an attempted assassination allegedly conducted by Indian agents against Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The allegations are serious enough that the National Security Council has…
The Fifth Estate’s exposé of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s real identity as an Italian- and English-American from suburban Massachusetts rather than an indigenous person abducted from a Saskatchewan reservation rates awards in the same way Buffy Sainte-Marie did not. That is to…
I’m not going to tell you that I know much of anything about Pierre Poilievre. I know that he’s considered to be the likely conservative alternative to Canadian Prime Minister Justin “Fidelito” Trudeau, the wannabe dictator of that country to…
Los países de literatura indigente tienen historia desabrida. [Countries with an impoverished literature have an insipid history.] — Nicolás Gómez Dávila It has become something of an autumn tradition. The leaves change their verdant hues, mothballed sweaters come out of…
Believing that a civil war occurred in the early 1970s, and that the show All in the Family communicated persuasively to the combatants and affected the outcome, James Poniewozik wrote in Time magazine on June 22, 2001: Archie Bunker spoke…