On February 19, 2021, almost exactly one year before Russia would invade Ukraine, President Joe Biden addressed the Virtual Munich Security Conference. He said: “We’re at an inflection point between those who argue that, given all the challenges we face—from the...
“Capitalism is killing the planet—it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction.”- The Guardian The more disordered modern society becomes the more loudly we hear a common diagnosis: capitalism wanted this. Blaming capitalism has long been the status quo for the...
Canadian politicians are creating one bonfire after another of freedom and individual rights. COVID crackdowns established persecution precedents that politicians in some provinces refuse to allow to gather dust. Politicians are claiming the right to financially...
It appears that the free global internet, such as it was, which many of us loved and grew up with, is nearly dead. Long gone are the days of anonymous IRC chats or where only paranoiacs thought their emails were monitored. The growing standard is the government...
If self-described progressives decry anything more fiercely than poverty, it is income and wealth inequality. Some have even suggested that they would prefer low-income equality to inequality, regardless of how affluent the lowest level was. What counts is the gap....
A new executive order from President Donald Trump titled “Prosecuting Burning of the America Flag” is generating considerable stir across the United States. The order, which was signed by Trump on Monday, instructs the Department of Justice to “prioritize the...
The Enlightenment produced many innovators, but few have left a legacy as contentious and influential as John Locke. Born in Wrington, Somerset on August 29, 1632, Locke wrote the political treatises that shaped England’s Glorious Revolution and later guided the...
The Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Enlightenment bequeathed to the Western world two basic springs of political thought. Both emerged from a common source: the rejection of divine-right monarchy, feudal hierarchy, and the suffocating weight of hereditary...
