American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism Ned Ryun (Encounter, $25.99, 159 pages) Ned Ryun, founder of American Majority and Voter Gravity, has written a stinging overview of the origins and growth of the so-called Deep State, the class of bureaucrats that have come to rule American society. Ryun shows how bureaucratic rule quickly becomes authoritarian rule. The [...]
Paul Tuns: Three municipalities that declared December Chirstian Heritage Month in 2024 have reversed themselves and will not do so again. In January, The Interim reported that 56 jurisdictions in Canada, including the province of Saskatchewan, and cities such as Calgary, Mississauga, Regina, and Toronto, officially declared December “Christian Heritage Month” after an advocacy campaign by Molly Banerjei, a realtor from Toronto [...]
Jonathan Van Maren: In a truly absurd story that serves as a microcosm of the battle over Canada’s soul, the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) is facing off with the City of Hamilton … over an ad that depicts a smiling young woman, and the dictionary definition: “Woman: An Adult Female.” The ad was submitted by CHP Hamilton in January 2023 to Outfront [...]
The Detransition Diaries Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell (Ignatius Press, $24.95, 246 pages) Documentarian Jennifer Lahl (Trans Mission) and perinatal nurse Kallie Fell have written a short, powerful, timely argument against transgender ideology. There are several short chapters on issues surrounding gender dysphoria such as “The rise of the gender-affirmation movement,” “Lessons not learned from medical abuses,” “Why is the trend higher among [...]
Paul Tuns: Calvin Robinson acknowledges the audience at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington D.C., on Jan. 25. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network, which has a history of targeting pro-life and pro-family organizations as hate groups, published a “smear piece” against black preacher Calvin Robinson, a featured speaker at the youth conference following the National March for Life in Ottawa this [...]
Sarah Stilton, Review: Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws: A Critical Edition Edited by W. B. Allen (Anthem Press, $215, 954 pages) There are Marxists and Lockeans, Nietzscheans and Aristotelians but there are no Montesquieuans. The knock against Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu is that he created no system, that he was not a theorizer. Montesquieu is considered a [...]
Paul Tuns Numerous organizations from Canada submitted concerns about Canada’s euthanasia regime to the United National Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), including worries expressed by the Canadian Human Rights Commission that some people will choose so-called Medical Assistance in Dying because they cannot access adequate medical care, housing, or other supports. Canada ratified the UN Convention on the [...]
Donald DeMarco: The Fifth Annual Report on It was just another game in the long 162 marathon that is the season of baseball. Or was it? Boston Red Sox first baseman Pat Stapleton came to bat in the fourth inning against the Chicago White Sox with the score tied 2-2. Stapleton hit a line-drive that would have been far less memorable if [...]
The Chicago Canon on Free Inquiry and Expression Edited by Tony Banout and Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago Press, $26, 228 pages) The University of Chicago is justly famous for its defense of freedom of expression and free inquiry against the censorious barbarians at the gates of academia, and within it. Over the past decade, as many universities set out to provide [...]
CLC, CHP call on pro-lifers to vote conscientiously this election Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition gave Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre (left) an F, People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier (center) a C+, and Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor (right) an A+. Two weeks after winning the Liberal leadership, Prime Minister Mark Carney called an election for April 28. Carney, [...]