Paul Tuns: Canadian Press reported that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is prepared to use the notwithstanding clause to uphold three transgender laws if the courts attempt to overturn them. In a Sept. 10 memo obtained by the Canadian Press, the Smith government’s Justice Department directed other departments to prepare for Smith’s office to invoke the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements On May 20, 2020, just two months into the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, New York governor Andrew Cuomo gave one of his daily press conferences – a “state of the plague” address of sorts, reliably covered in the legacy media. (He would win an Emmy for “masterful use of television to inform and calm [...]
To mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, sat down with Campaign Life Coalition vice president Matthew Wojciechowski to discuss life and family issues at the UN. CLC has had Special Consultative Status as a non-government organization at the UN since 1999 and Wojcieschowski has been to UN events more than [...]
Paul Tuns: After the League of Nations disintegrated in the wake of World War II, U.S. President Frank Delano Roosevelt proposed the idea of the Four Powers (the U.S., U.K., Russia, and Red China) as an international body to coordinate cooperation among them. Throughout the war the idea morphed into what became the April 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International [...]
1945 was a moment of great hope, and great peril. A mere quarter century after the close of what had then been known as the “War to End all Wars,” Europe had, for the second time, been the epicenter of an even more destructive military conflict. In the wake of the Great War, the League of Nations had been founded precisely to [...]
Paul Tuns: Editor’s Note: There are descriptions of graphic sex acts in this story. The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) published a report that reveals the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has developed resources and funded activities that promote obscene sex-ed programs, homosexuality, and transgenderism to children. In “UNICEF Programs Sexually Groom Children: Evidence of UNICEF Promoting Comprehensive Sexuality Education, [...]
A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century Louise Perry (Polity, $19.95, 165 pages) In 2022, feminist journalist Louise Perry wrote The Case against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century, which poignantly prosecuted the case against the notion that the Sexual Revolution liberated women. She has updated and adapted her book to gear it toward [...]
Oswald Clark: In August and September, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., tackled four pro-life and pro-family issues: fetal tissue research, organ transplantation, the abortion pill mifepristone, and gender ideology. In September, it was announced that HHS rejected the renewal of 17 grants for fetal tissue research. In his first administration, Trump had [...]
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company Patrick McGee (Scribner, $43, 437 pages) Journalist Patrick McGee reports in his book Apple in China, about how one of the world’s largest companies, Apple, maker of the iPhone and other ubiquitous consumer gadgets, “bound its future inextricably to a ruthless authoritarian state” – that of Red China. McGee, a former Wall [...]
After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher Thomas M. Ward (Word on Fire, $36, 201 pages) In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Stoicism, from academic publications to YouTube videos, about Zeno, Marcus Aureliu and Seneca, among others. There is much to recommend in Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy that taught that virtue is the highest good [...]
Mark Twain Ron Chernow (Penguin, $60, 1174 pages) Ron Chernow, biographer of J.P Morgan, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant, has turned his attention to the most American of authors, Mark Twain. Chernow describes Twain, born Samuel Clemons in 1835, and his search for fame and fortune in a thoroughly researched, rich, and brisk-moving 1100-page biography. Chernow says that Twain “thrust himself [...]
Paul Tuns: James C. Dobson, a child psychologist who founded Focus on the Family after seeing first-hand the toll of the social tumult of the 1960s, died on August 21 at the age of 89. A cause of death was not provided by the family’s spokesman. Dobson was an evangelical Christian, the son of a preacher in the Church of the Nazarene, [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 10, Charlie Kirk was killed during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University by a gunman opposed to Kirk’s political views. Charlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012 to advocate for conservative positions on high school and university campuses. TPUSA hosts annual conventions such as the Student Action Summit and Young Women’s Leadership Summit, and organized Kirk’s [...]
Special editorial: For Charlie Kirk, the event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 began like so many others. In front of a crowd of about 3000, the Turning Point USA founder and president engaged in spirited debate, fielding questions from all quarters, taking on all comers. Kirk’s responses were typical: Drawing on conservative values and, even more, on his sincere and [...]