The Prophet of Dystopia at Rest: Margaret Atwood in Cuba
Canada has never supported the US embargo, and the countries’ good relations are for many Canadians a symbol of our independence.
Yvon Grenier
· 13 min read
Human Rights
A collection of 94 posts
The Route to Re-Enchantment
Moving from Cain and Abel to Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, with some Egyptian myths thrown in, he reconnects his young audience to the religious tradition that was always theirs to inherit, but from which they have been estranged by their modern education.
Harrison Pitt
· 9 min read
The 'Gender Supremacist' Threat to the Progressive Alliance: Part One of a Three-Part Series
Allan Stratton
· 22 min read
Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women
Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.
Kathleen Stock
· 13 min read
Book Burning at Midnight, May 10th, 1933
Following the Nazis’ defeat by the Allies, the imagery lived on. In succeeding decades, projections of the book burning were never long out of sight or reference.
Thomas Doherty
· 7 min read
James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature
“The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn and anybody is
Samuel Kronen
· 24 min read
Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot
The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.
Edie Wyatt
· 8 min read
Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review
Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.
Jonathan Salem-Wiseman
· 8 min read
Anti-Asian Discrimination Is Real and an Attack on American Values
The self-selection bias of immigrants does not dilute the story.
Manu Sarna
· 6 min read
Starvation and Ethnic Cleansing Stalk Ethiopia
The Ethiopian government has attempted to maintain total control of the narrative by locking down the region and imposing a communications blackout.
James Jeffrey
· 8 min read
Dictatorship and Responsibility in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s political culture is being dismantled.
Peter Baehr
· 16 min read
Cuba’s Doomed War on Independent Art
There were seven police officers, all dressed as civilians. They arrived at the improvised Havana music studio on the morning of Monday, September 28th, kicked down the door and found their target—Maykel Castillo Pérez, a well-known Cuban rapper and human rights activist who was in the process of recording
Jorge C. Carrasco
· 4 min read
Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
Making the World Safe for Autocracy
Brian Stewart
· 4 min read
China’s Stateless Nations
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read