A NEW BOOK from The Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy

The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished--Not Cancelled. Twenty distinct, thoughtful and occasionally contrarian authors make the case for Canada. Buy now on Amazon.ca.

Trudeau and Trump are shredding our democracies and norms

Defenders of Trudeau and Trump should resist the temptation to place a premium on princes and chronic apologias for the same. They should instead defend our hard-won institutions paid for in time, treasure and blood. My newest column.

Five reasons why Canadians should support Israel

This is a moral, civic and civilizational duty including when one’s origins are Palestinian. Read more here.

What Rishi Sunak’s rise says about skin colour: It’s irrelevant

Claims of widespread systemic racism in the Anglosphere are overblown. Read more here.

How should we think about Queen Elizabeth and past empires?

Let’s start with more nuance and informed history—and think of Hong Kong as an example. My newest column.

Canada’s robust history of freedom

Freedom is as Canadian as maple syrup and the Canadian Rockies. Don’t let collectivists tell you otherwise. My National Post column.

Memo to the right: Stop acting like the left

The left has long engaged in anti-reality thinking and behaviour. Now the right is in danger of making the same mistake. My Financial Post column here.

Victims of identities and arguments over privilege

The privilege theory is analytically weak, based as it is in assumed correlation–causation links now confounded by massive wealth creation and immigration that has washed previous effects of privilege out to sea. Nonetheless, there is no shortage of activists with little actual experience of discrimination who keep telling (black) economists Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele that they are in the wrong. Read the excerpt from The Victim Cult.

The Victim Cult

“Belongs on your shelf next to Dalrymple and Jordan B. Peterson.” - Ben on Amazon

“This is honestly the most comprehensive book I've come across, one that lays out society's problems with human, practical solutions that cross racial and economic lines.”— Larry Yff, host of “White, Confused, Black and Christian - the Podcast” and author of Your View Matters book series

“Mark Milke's The Victim Cult is a solid introduction to victim chic - and chicanery. - Ian Kluge

Keynotes

My keynotes are designed to break through foggy thinking and to inform and challenge your audience with clarity.

My speeches deliberately avoid contrived corporate-speak, Orwellian Newspeak, and clichés. All that is akin to filling an already fog-choked valley with more mist.

Instead, whether in my speech about the dangers of victim thinking but the possibilities of self-actualization through deliberate choice (from my new book The Victim Cult) or why reflexive critiques of Western civilization are flawed, I always offer: a clear explanation of the problem; why it matters to your audience; how they can think, live, and act with a clear head on those and others issues.