The Ragged Edge Blog

You would think, given the intersectional ideology that seems to have gripped the imagination of North America’s chattering classes, that the persecution of a woman who happens to be of Lebanese descent would be a pretty big deal.  After all, we’ve heard repeatedly that Western democracies are domineering patriarchies.  Anti-Muslim bias is a blot on the Canadian body politic.  So if any Canadian institution (let alone a university) targeted a Lebanese-Canadian woman, you would think there would be righteous indignation.  But not so fast! Rima Azur is an associate professor at Mount Allison University.  I’ll let you guess her gender…

There is a particularly pernicious and stupid proverb that I hear repeated mindlessly and it drives me crazy:  “It takes a village to raise a child.”  What does that mean?  It asserts that the key success factor for raising healthy and happy children is a community, the macro-environment.  One problem with that theory, however.  It’s a lie.  Everything we know from social science screams that the single most important factor is an intact family, a unit where there is husband and wife living with their biological children under the same roof. I encountered the following statistic that divides the American…

I am writing this blog-post on the morning of Saturday April 18th after learning that a stay-at-home order has been extended in Ontario until May 20th.  At one time I was charitable and attributed the actions of all three levels of government to incompetence driven by at its core a legitimate fear.  But it’s past time giving these authoritarians the benefit of the doubt.  They are ignoring the science.  They are ignoring the objective and incontrovertible facts.  Nietzsche, who understood the human condition, said it best:  “There is will to power where there is life… the will to power is…