The joke was on the PM, not on India, on Indians or or Indo-Canadians. Yet that was not how some Anglophones saw it.
“Why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we’ve learned not to fear words,” Uhura says.
n the 1960s, being progressive meant expanding the range of permissible behaviour. A half century later, it’s about imposing constraints.
As far as “master concepts” go, this one is hard to beat. One worries, however, that it is a little too neat.
Views on the news, delivered so smooth.
In the course of the semester, we would take the enormous, world-shaping corpus of American film and feed it through the leftist salami slicer: race, class, sexuality, gender, ability (notably not religion).
Very few of us can actually deal with too much truth, so we rarely enquire too deeply into the justifications for our beliefs.
Pride and shame are two sides of the same coin; so if collective pride makes sense, then collective shame makes sense too
If we are looking for a civilization that never engaged in mass violence or destruction, we’re unlikely to find one.
In the ongoing debate over terrorism, Jihadists offers a timely reminder of why theology matters.
In my experience, social-media-driven activists have been driven more to hate villains than to love and honor their victims. And the most hated villain is white supremacy.
Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker about his book Enlightenment Now and why the critics who took him to task for celebrating the Enlightenment are wrong. Professor Pinker has also written a piece for Quillette on the same subject.
As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Children get a wider perspective when they’re tugged out of the here and now for a little while each day. In an enchanted hour, we can read them stories of the real and imagined past.
Bun’s frankness about her own frailties lends her reporting the credibility and moral authority of honesty—the authenticity with which she writes closes the distance between journalist and reader, and her videos transport us into the world she covers.