Marriage and our social health
A Review of I … Do? Why Marriage Still Matters by Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell, Cascade Books, 2024. “Marriage is a public good, and now more than ever North Americans need to reimagine what a healthy marriage culture could look like in a pluralistic society” write Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell, as […]
Exposing the true nature of ‘campus investigations’
Review of Professors Speak Out: The Truth About Campus Investigations by Nicholas Wolfinger. Washington DC: Academica Press, 2025. Once upon a time, when I was an undergraduate, academic life was populated by persons, mostly men, who were very smart, slightly eccentric and would sometimes say abrupt, even rude, things. Some were amazing teachers, some amazing […]
What Mark Carney can learn from John Diefenbaker
Review of “Freedom Fighter: John Diefenbaker’s Battle for Canadian Liberties and Independence.” On April 28, after President Donald Trump again remarked that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state, Canadians voted in the federal election with one key concern—the preservation of Canadian sovereignty. Following his election victory, Prime Minister Mark Carney represented this concern with […]
Closing the casket on JFK’s assassination
A Canadian expert on conspiracy theories reviews Fred Litwin’s A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination (NorthernBlues Books, 2024. Available on Amazon for $22.78 CAD). With the March 18th release of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection—all 2,566 entries—the JFK assassination is back in the news. Remarkably, but unsurprisingly, […]
Demystifying Israel: Revisiting Noa Tishby’s witty and informative guide
Review of Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, voted on the Gaza disengagement plan 20 years ago this month. Initially intended to improve Israel’s security and reduce terrorism, the plan ultimately proved disastrous. Instead of fostering peace, it inadvertently allowed Hamas to consolidate power and […]
The shifting sands of liberalism: A review of MacKinnon’s ‘Confronting Illiberalism’
Peter MacKinnon is a lawyer, former law professor, a former Dean of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, and a senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation among other accomplishments. He served as president of the University of Saskatchewan, and interim president at both Athabasca University and Dalhousie, resigning this last position in January 2020. In […]
Book Review: Educational Pluralism and Democracy: How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools
A Review of Ashley Berger’s Educational Pluralism and Democracy: How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools 225 pages, $35.00 CAD Declining outcomes. Civil discord. Cultural illiteracy. Functional illiteracy. The list goes on. K-12 education is struggling to deliver on the promise of not only universal education but also civic formation. It is […]
Book Review: ‘In Defence of Canada’ outlines country’s current malaise and how to fix it
A Review of Michel Maisonneuve’s In Defence of Canada: Reflections Of A Patriot 174 pages, $32.95 CAD Lt.-Gen. J.O. Michel Maisonneuve (retired) is a true Canadian patriot. But while he wore the uniform of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and led Canada’s French-language military university, he kept his mouth shut regarding what he was witnessing—not […]
Book Review: ‘After the Pogrom’ is a sobering assessment of our cultural moment
A Review of Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation 172 pages, $21.54 CAD I have long wondered why terrorism draws worldwide condemnation, unless the target is Israel. It’s commonly seen that the condemnation of Hamas is “qualified,” tentative, and reluctant. Why is this? I finally got the answer […]
Book Review: On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
Collin May, The Epoch Times, September 10, 2024 Adam Kirsch’s latest essay-length book takes on the thorny ideology of settler colonialism. In On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice, and despite its concise format, Kirsch covers a lot of ground in a work that is comprehensive, insightful, and a good read. While this is a […]
