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.
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It is often excellent politics, at least in the short term. It also leads to hollowed-out, incomplete history, and a simplistic caricature of events. It is the “Disneyfication” of often difficult decisions from another era.
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The 2019 inquiry, media, and politicians overlooked a major issue on reserves and thus ignored the nearly 250,000 indigenous women who live in such communities.
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The co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has been clear he wants to ‘suspend’ liberal democracy, remake modern society – and in his belief that the Holocaust was not unique.
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6,000 new Alberta bureaucrats and half-a-billion dollars annually to collect income tax? Most of the firewall ideas only make sense if you’re a separatist.
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Despite flourishing conditions for many, the rise of grievances and constellations of people that obsess over them — victim cults — has proceeded apace. Examples can be found that range from the mild to the murderous.
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A century of data suggests that climate deaths are actually declining.
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Even the BBC headlined a news report with the question, “Does Justin Trudeau apologise too much?”
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The best way for liberalization to happen is for a province or territory to act unilaterally to end its own barriers. The Alberta government has already moved ahead in just this fashion.
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Western voters were not insane in the 1980s and they’re not insane today
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Yes, Albertans are angry. It would be remarkable if they had any other reaction.
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East Asian Americans never waited for long-deserved equality in American laws and institutions before carving out their future and their children’s opportunities whenever possible—in this case, via education
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The point of the numerous mea culpas is to morally preen and take issue with the dead who cannot argue back.
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The Cain and Abel story may be the first in the Western canon where the temptation to burrow in self-pity appears, where a man who spills blood thinks himself the victim.
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Rising incomes in Canada have been closely tied to one economic sector. Naturally, it’s the one experiencing implacable opposition.
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When Christopher Hitchens described George Orwell as “sensitive to intellectual hypocrisy and well-tuned to pick up the invariably creepy noises which it gives off,” the same lucidity applied in exact measure to Hitchens.
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Almost every society had the awful, evil mark of slavery on it. That should lead those of alive today to grasp this reality: We have a lot more in common with each other than with our ancient tribes.
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An excerpt from The Victim Cult: How in history can we actually compare and weigh suffering as if an impartial scale exists?
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As with elsewhere in Canada, governments in British Columbia are committing a troika of mistakes,
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King Canute showed his subjects that no, even he couldn’t stop the tide from coming in. A thousand years later, too many politicians don’t seem to understand that economies can’t “transition” by decree.
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