Likely born around 1620.
Saturday, 6 February 2021
Machine in the Ghost
Can a robot pray? Does an AI have a soul? Advances in automata raise theological debates that will shape the secular world.
Friday, 5 February 2021
Rex Murphy: This is the Worst Canadian Government Ever. Can There be Any Question?
The country is in an economic coma. The House of Commons is a movie set. We are shamed in the international community. And the list goes on.
Thursday, 4 February 2021
Audrey Hepburn’s Favorite Song
Paul Desmond, the original saxophonist of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, wrote a piece for Hepburn. He never knew she’d heard it.
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
The Conservative Case Against the Boomers
For bleakness, scope, and entropic finality, the progressive critique of the generation has nothing on the social-conservative one.
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Gulf Slave Society
The glittering city-states of the Persian Gulf fit the classicist Moses Finley’s criteria of genuine slave societies.
Monday, 1 February 2021
Sunday, 31 January 2021
They Called for Help. They’d Always Regret It.
Two families called 911 to get help for their sons. They didn’t know that they’d be thrusting them into a complex and often brutal system.
The Numbers Are In: Canada’s COVID-fighting Efforts Are Among World’s Worst
Every day 130 Canadians die. Our economy staggers. We are failing to properly respond to COVID and it may only get worse.