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The Persecution of a Lebanese-Canadian Woman

2021-05-13 No Comments

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…

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It Takes a Nuclear Family

2021-04-28 No Comments

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…

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Here We Go Again…

2021-04-19 No Comments

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…

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It Takes a Nuclear Family

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 […]

Two Preventable Deaths: Zero Accountability

This past Saturday in North Vancouver, British Columbia, one woman was killed and six others were injured in what seems to be a random attack.  There is no evidence that the alleged attacker, Yannick Bandaogo, knew any of the victims.  Right now, we don’t know much about him and what his motivation may have been.  […]

A New Model for Public Schools

My four-year old son will likely be returning to school a few weeks from now. He will be attending a public school close to where we live. He wants to go back because he misses his friends, and this is something I sympathize with. Children should be spending most of their day playing, preferably unsupervised. […]

The Restarting of History | August 12, 2020

In 1989, American political scientist Francis Fukayama published a landmark essay, “The End of History”.  The Soviet Union was in collapse and the United States was the undisputed single world Super Power.  The Cold War was over.  Fukayama observed this outcome and concluded that because people were naturally attracted to value creation and classical liberal […]

Great Politics, Great Economics

Last week, US President Joe Biden laid out plans to raise the US corporate tax rate from the current 21% to 28%.  This would roll back the cuts that Donald Trump had enacted several years earlier.  It is almost certain that the Republican Party, seemingly directionless, will oppose this change.  And as a general rule, […]

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