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Published in The Times’ International Weekly this past Sept., the article I am about to discuss was entitled: “An Old Philosophy of Oneness Can Guide Us Today.” It was written by Andrea Wulf, author of “Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self.” She begins by citing the late 18th C. teachings …
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The distinction implied in my title is the fundamental distinction separating “liberals” from “conservatives,” the latter contending that, whatever the circumstances of our lives, we must all be held accountable for our actions, the former, given to Marx’s “materialistic determinism,” exonerating even acts of horrific violence on the grounds that their “oppressed” perpetrators were the …
The Eaton Center, Toronto’s largest downtown mall, has just announced that it will not be gifting the city with that massive, gorgeously decorated Christmas tree it has been featuring for several decades now. The official announcement failed to use the word “Christmas,” referring to the iconic seasonal attraction as a “holiday” or “signature” tree. The …
Born in the U.S., Henry A. Giroux ended up at McMaster U. in my hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. Well into his seventies, he apparently still holds his position there as a professor of Scholarship in the Public Interest. History being his primary scholarly focus, he embraced Critical Race Theory early in his career, applying what …
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Just watched a video posted today by Benny Johnson showing House Republican Kevin McCarthy at a bridge by the Mexican border which has apparently been the entry point of approximately 70,000 illegal immigrants over the last 7 weeks. Outraged that Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, has continued to insist that the border is secure, …
As reported by the Washington Post in Mar., 2022, deportations of illegal migrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] fell drastically in 2021 as a direct result of the priorities imposed upon it by the Biden administration. That that year also saw record high border crossings would perhaps seem to validate Republican claims that the …
On Nov. 21, Not the Bee posted a video of a mother in what I believe is Frisco, Texas, addressing the school board responsible for her child’s education. Opening a book she obtained from the library of that child’s school, she begins to read a brazenly pornographic passage. Thirty seconds or so into her reading, …
In Sept., journalist Matt Orfalea produced two videos featuring various public figures, mostly politicians, who had dared question the integrity of the two most recent U.S. presidential elections. The first cited various Democrats claiming Trump’s 2016 victory was a sham. It included Joe Biden suggesting Trump was an “illegitimate president,” an opinion echoed by Kamala …
The following is but one of hundreds of newspaper articles I might use to make my point. On Oct. 28 of this year, my local newspaper printed an article by two Canadian university professors who had just published a book entitled “Has Populism Won?: The War on Liberal Democracy.” Implicit in the article is the …
The Federation for American Immigration Reform recently announced that approximately 5.5 million illegal immigrants have entered the U.S. since Biden took office. While 4.4 million were processed by border patrol, 1.1million entered the country utterly undetected. Quite aside from the fact that many of the latter were drug dealers and various other species of undesirables, …