As you most likely already know, the Trump government has frozen 2.6 billion dollars in grants to Harvard after that university refused to abandon its D.E.I. programs or take action against campus demonstrations which the Republicans feel are anti-Semitic and morally repulsive. The school’s President, Alan Garber, declared self-righteously that his institution “will not surrender …
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Traditional Humanism [i.e. Conservatism] is the Only Answer.
In 2009 Chris Hedges published a Pulitzer Prize winning work entitled “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.” Attracted to the work by my belief that our culture was indeed in decline, I nevertheless felt Hedges’ explanation was extremely simplistic. A Leftist, he attributed that decline to Free Market Capitalism, …
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Their Duplicity is but the Tip of the Iceberg
The notion that the Internet is a cesspool of Misinformation while our news agencies and political institutions deal in nothing but the truth, is absurd. The moral and intellectual diversity of the species is reflected everywhere. On Mar. 26, Katherine Maher, CEO of America’s National Public Radio, responded to various Republicans Congressmen convinced that NPR, …
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Two Books that Define our Cultural Dilemma!
In 1997, American author/historian Jared Diamond published “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.” Winning the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998, the book would seem to epitomize the world-view of both our Western “intellectuals” and the Political Left over the last several decades. As stated by Wikipedia, Diamond argues “against the idea …
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Identity Politics vs. the Facts of Mind and Morality !
Two wonderful human beings with whom I have become familiar over the last few months illustrate the superficiality of the Marxist concept of Materialistic Determinism, the Leftist notion that people who fail to excel are invariably victims of the “oppressive” circumstances to which they were born. Both Mosab Yousef and Narges Mohammadi in fact epitomize …
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Ignorantly Self-Righteous and Proud of it!
On March 13, British Columbia’s College of Nurses ruled against Amy Hamm who, while never having mistreated anyone of a Trans Identity consigned to her care, was nevertheless deemed to be utterly unprofessional in her insistence that Nature’s Norm consists of Two Genders from which all others are deviations. Her politically incorrect views became eminently …
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Another Death, Courtesy of our “Progressive” Judiciary!
On Mar. 29, Hamilton’s conspicuously Leftist newspaper, The Spectator, published a lengthy piece on David Gomez-Rodriguez, a Mexican who had come to Canada in the spring of 2023 claiming refugee status. Six months later, in Dec. of that year, he was arrested for smashing a dinner plate over the head of an individual who was …
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Our Sick, Sick Culture!
When the vast majority of one’s friends seem to share the same world-view, those not prone to rational introspection simply fall victim to the dominant political biases of their era. It is that state of mindless acquiescence that has led even my most educated of acquaintances to fall in line with many of the truly …
Dostoevsky: Wisdom is Ageless!
Just came across a wonderful quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky who, over 150 years ago, epitomized the absurdity of the contemporary Left’s obsession with Inclusiveness in a single sentence. It reads: “Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” Such has been the …
The Mainstream Press: An Endless River of Drivel
On Nov. 9, in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory, Canada’s Globe and Mail published a massive opinion piece consisting of more than two dozen paragraphs by Andrew Coyne whose affiliation with both The Globe and the CBC aptly suggests the Leftist bias of his worldview. Entitled “Sometimes the people get it wrong,” the article, …
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