Oswald Clark, Review: Hell to Pay: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America by Michael Lind (Portfolio, $39, 213 pages) Conservative writer Michael Lind has followed up his book The New Class War which looked at the trans-Atlantic West through the prism of the growing economic and cultural gap between the university-educated overclass and the working class, with Hell to Pay, a [...]
Interim Staff: New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs announced he would review Policy 713, the province’s public school Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity policy, arguing that the current policy denies parents their right to know if their child wants to change genders. The current policy, implemented by the Ministry of Education in 2020, states, “Transgender or non-binary students under the age [...]
Paul Tuns: The NDP launched an online petition calling for "abortion services" to be made "accessible to every Canadian," suggesting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government was insufficiently pro-abortion. The petition stated, "Many Canadians seeking abortion services can’t access them – this must change," claiming, "in Canada many individuals seeking abortion services can’t access them," with "only one hospital in six [...]
Paul Tuns: According to a study published in the medical journal Cureus, one in four American women who have had an abortion described having one as coerced, and most others describe their abortion as unwanted. The study by Dr. David Reardon, an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute and director of the Elliott Institute, and Tessa Longbons, Charlotte Lozier’s senior research [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads: Essays from The New Criterion Edited by Roger Kimball (Encounter, $28, 234 pages) The New Criterion is an essential conservative review of the culture today, focused on the visual arts, music, books, and the goings-on in academia. Every few years they have a year-long series in their monthly journal dedicated to a particular [...]
Paul Tuns: On May 9, Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton-Melville) moved that Bill C-311, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (violence against pregnant women), be read the second time and referred to a committee, with the Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois condemning the Conservatives for what they claim is an attempt to reopen the abortion issue. If passed, Bill C-311 would [...]
Mary Zwicker: Between July 2021 and June 2022, the year before the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, the United States saw the second-highest number of abortions carried out by Planned Parenthood in its history, new data indicates, despite the total number of abortions in the United States trending downward since the 1990s. Under the theme of “Relentless,” the Planned Parenthood Federation [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements If you were a fan, you might have experienced the death of singer Gordon Lightfoot last month in different ways depending on where you lived. Expressions of grief and mourning were a testament to his popularity on both sides of the 49th parallel and all over the world, but the tributes and reminiscences [...]
Paul Tuns Two NDP members of provincial parliament in British Columbia and Ontario have introduced private member's bills in support of drag shows for children. In Ontario, NDP MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam tabled Bill 94, the Keeping 2SLGBTQI+ Communities Safe Act, 2023, which, if passed, would allow the Attorney General to temporarily designate addresses where drag shows are taking place as "community safety [...]
Paul Tuns: According to data obtained from Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information, researcher Patricia Maloney, who blogs at Run with Life, has found that more than 1500 babies born-alive after a failed abortion have been left to die over the past 23 years and Campaign Life Coalition has renewed calls for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to investigate [...]
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Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America Abraham Reisman (Atria Books, $39.99, 452 pages) Freelance writer Abraham Reisman has written a fascinating book with a misleading title, Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America. It is common for pundits to make comparisons between the showbiz of professional wrestling and the celebrity style of modern politics, with some offering theories that [...]
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language Arika Okrent (Oxford UP, $20.95, 264 pages) Linguist Arika Okrent has written a delightful book on the oddities of the English language, Highly Irregular. Okrent looks at hundreds of words and phrases that do not conform to the normal rules of spelling, pronunciation, grammar, and usage, [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition said 5000-6000 people participated in the National March for Life through the streets of the nation's capital on May 11, and many others also attended the week's numerous events including a screening and panel discussion of the documentary Roe Canada: The True North in a Post-Roe World, songs for life coffee house, the Candlelight Vigil, pro-life church [...]
In museums, libraries, galleries, and concert halls, one can watch a similar drama unfold. An incipient style—of a period, of an artist—begins uncertainly, but it promises something more, an as-yet-unachieved maturity. Eventually, as the career of a style progresses, something permanent and distinctive is added to the sum-total of cultural achievements. One need only think of the qualities conjured by eponymous adjectives—like [...]