A Philosophy of Secrets

Jacques Derrida was fascinated by the figure of the Marrano Jew, whose identity could barely be told even to themselves.

Doctor Doesn’t Know Best

Non-binary blarney in Killarney.

Canada’s Housing Affordability Crisis

Is changing people’s lives.

Chinese Hackers Attacked Kenya

As Belt and Road debts grew.

The End of Dollar Supremacy

The West’s imperial lifecycle is drawing to a close.

Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer

The violence of his era can be found in his serene masterpieces — if you know where to look.

What Happened to Jeopardy?

The ambient joy of America’s nightly game show is slowly giving way to a Marvel-brained empire.

California Bill Passes That Protects People Who Have Sex With Minors

Keeps them off sex offender registry.

170 Million Pieces Of Space Junk

How do you clean it up?

The Surprising Geography of Gun Violence

America’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them.

Our American Suicide

America’s founding principles are now vilified as ‘threats to democracy.’

Washington State’s New Climate Curriculum

Attacks ‘rational thinking.’

Is There Anything Left To Conserve?

The chickens of modernity have come home to roost.

‘Safer Snorting Kits’

Handed out at B.C. high school after drug presentation.

Dr. GPT Will See You Now

How will AI change medicine?

Dark Matter

Race hustling in astronomy.

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

Weil, Gandhi, Cioran, and Mishima on humility.

The Endlessly Examined Life

A most chronic depression.

Chinese Salvage Ship Caught Red-Handed

Looting battleship wrecks.

Microbes Have No Morals

First we learned to fear germs, then we learned to love our microbiome. But both sides get the biology wrong.

Homelessness Isn’t an Unfixable Problem

Start by looking at the government policies that have made it worse.

Decades Of Inept Government

Has cost Canadians their prosperity.

Martin Amis

The confrontational genius. 

Trudeau Continues To Embarrass Canada

On the world stage.

The Encampment State

Billions in spending have failed to solve California’s massive—and worsening—homelessness crisis.

New World Genocide

The myth.

Why the US Should Close Its Overseas Military Bases

It’s time to abandon these outposts and bring the troops home.

America’s Poverty

Is built by design.

Ireland’s New Thoughtcrime Bill

Is shockingly draconian.

The Cancellation Of Classical Music

The crusade against ‘whiteness’ is destroying culture.

Electric Vehicles Prove Climate Extremists Aren’t Just Wrong

They’re delusional.

A Manned Mission To Mars

Let’s talk. Some more.

 

Pregnant Citi Bike Woman

Viral, out-of-context clips make victims into villains simply because they’re white.