A Walt Whitman Reading List

Reading recommendations from a life of letters.

The Sultan Saladin Fan Club

Tracing the path of the Crusades as it traveled through European history.

6 International Bad Guys

Thrilled to have Biden in office this year.

School Censors ‘Jingle Bells’

Because it could be ‘offensive.’

Public Safety—If You Can Afford It

Urban violence triggers the rise of private security services for the affluent.

‘I Pray Everyday For Justin Trudeau’

‘I pray that he will resign.’

From Our Family To Yours

 

A Blueprint For Woke Medicine

Mount Sinai embraces ideologically charged DEI programs in medicine.

The Book Disease

On bibliomania.

Climate Surprises

Some unexpected effects of climate change.

Underground World of Fungi

To be mapped for the first time.

A Year of Writing

To uncover the authentic self.

The Multiverses of Robert Grosseteste

A medieval polymath looks for the origin of the cosmos.

Lucretian Prehistory

An Epicurean view of the pros and cons of civilization.

China Fires Up Its ‘Artificial Sun’

Is fusion here?

Canada Needs To Build Millions — Not Thousands — Of EV Charging Stations

Lack of charging infrastructure could turn people off electric vehicles.

Why AI Needs a Genome

AI could learn and adapt like humans with algorithms that work like genes.

The Pipe Holds Them All Together

The myths and truths of the Black Hills—and the past and present of the Lakota people.

The Debatable Land of Fungi

On mushrooms and mycologists.

‘If You Could Die By Irony, She Would Be Dead’

Elon Musk lobs another one at Elizabeth Warren. 

Pandemic Exposed

The myths of Canadian health care.

What Books Have We Been Denied?

Publishers now operate in a state of fear.

How Science Has Been Corrupted

The pandemic has revealed a darkly authoritarian side to expertise.

Careerism

The writing life and its discontents.

Eventually, Everyone Needs to Urinate

On the medieval era’s obsession with unknowable innards.

Abe Lincoln Looks West

How the Civil War changed the frontier.

Trudeau Refuses To Recognize Uyghur Genocide

Says genocide is a ‘loaded term.’

The Death of Europe

Mandatory vaccination spells the violent end of European liberalism.

US Air Force

Embraces gender pronouns.

Medical Journals Have Replaced The Scientific Method

With Critical Race Ideology.

Angry Tesla Owner

Blows up his car.

American Diplomats In Cuba And Elsewhere

Russia may be behind ‘sonic attacks.’

 

Too Dense, Too Abstract, Too Suspect, Hegel Was Outside The Anglophone canon For A Century.

 Why is his star rising again?

This Riotous Life

There’s no rhythm to mass extinctions, no pattern to evolutionary recovery. Life bursts forth, in cacophonous adaptation.

American Gothic

On America’s unease with the darkness in its past.

Welcome to Baker Street

How Sherlock Holmes’ home went from a fictional setting to a reality for readers.

Hidden Water Reserves

 Discovered on Mars.

University Could Hire Professors

On ‘woke score.’ 

Trudeau Government Spending Spree Comes With Huge Costs

The tradeoff between higher spending and higher taxes.

Take Responsibility For Your Own Life

People need to grow up.

During the Holidays

BC forbids unvaccinated from hosting or attending private gatherings. 

Are We All Really Burning Out?

Academic burnout is real — but difficult to diagnose.

The Courage of Christopher Hitchens

Ten years ago, I lost a friend and the world lost an intellectual giant. We miss him now more than ever.

The One and Only Hitch

Christopher Hitchens died ten years ago. John Rodden recalls his friend’s rhetorical and literary gifts.

Norman Podhoretz on the Spiritual War for America

What drew him to Trump.

Waltzmania in the Paris Pleasure Gardens

On the culture of dancing madness in post-terror Paris.

Egg Controversy

Is personal.

Western Greed Fuels China’s Domination

Our oligarchs prostrate themselves for profit.

Unearthing David’s City

Archaeologist Eilat Mazar dug with a spade in one hand and a Bible in the other. 

Reweaving The Wild

Human roads have utterly fragmented the world of wild animals but the engineering to reconnect the pieces is in our grasp.