Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution Eric Kaufmann (Crown, $45 hc, $27 pb, 394 pages) Version 1.0.0 Eric Kaufmann is perhaps the foremost theorist of the great awokening – even more so than Christopher Rufo – and his definition of woke is unsurpassed: “the sacralization of historically disadvantaged race, gender and sexual identity groups.” The prioritizing of [...]
A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims: The Ugly Truth about Stakeholder Capitalism Andrew F. Puzder (Encounter, $45.99,. 335 pages) Andrew Puzder is a former CEO of a CKE Restaurants (which owns Carl’s Jr and Hardees) and commentator on economic affairs. In A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims: The Ugly Truth about Stakeholder Capitalism he examines the corporate commitment [...]
On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law Edited by Russell Hittinger and Scott J. Roniger (Catholic University of America Press, $52, 490 pages) Russell Hittinger and Scott Roniger have edited a compendium of Hittinger’s previously published articles on Catholic social teaching and natural law that is both scholarly and accessible. Collectively, the essays show that human dignity is [...]
By J.M. Glover: March for Life Ireland 2025 On May 5, thousands of Irish men, women, and children marched in Dublin, Ireland, under the banner “Pro-Woman, Pro-Baby, Pro-Life.” Busloads of pro-lifers from all over Ireland descended on Dublin to join the March. Since the abortion law took effect in 2019, there have been a staggering 51,000 abortions in Ireland. This does not [...]
From the editor's desk: From the editor's desk New York City-based Orthodox Jewish university, reversed its decision to permit an LGBTQ club, Hareni, from operating on campus. In March, the university, with campuses in Manhattan and the Bronx, agreed to official club status for Hareni. However, on May 9, in a letter to the school community, the university said that [...]
Interim Staff: In March, Manitoba Justice Minister Matt Wiebe introduced Bill 43, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, to add “gender expression” to the province’s human rights law. The law, if passed, would amend the Manitoba Human Rights Code and Wiebe said it would “cover anything from behavior or appearance, such as dress, hair, makeup, body language and voice,” and that the [...]
John Carpay: In Latin, the word secular simply means “of this world,” and neither affirms nor denies any “religious” doctrine as such. Over time, the word secular has come to mean “non-religious.” After more than four centuries of loyal devotion to Catholicism, Quebecers in the 1960s began the process of ejecting the Church from schools, universities, hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, unions, orphanages, [...]
Donald DeMarco: Charles E. Rice, in his book, The Winning Side, offers a cogent case for the connection between abortion and euthanasia. He points out that contraception and abortion have reduced the numbers of taxpayers in the United States who could pay for the elderly and disabled. It is predicted that by the year 2050 one American in 20 will be 85 [...]
Josie Luetke: The mistake was in believing Pierre Poilievre was our political saviour. From the sense of crushing disappointment amongst friends and family members in the wake of the 2025 federal election, you’d almost think the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is pro-life. Almost. April 28 was disappointing to me for another reason. At the Waterloo Catholic District School Board [...]
Donald DeMarco, Review: How We Got Here: A Guide to Our Anti-Christian Culture by Jonathon Van Maren (Christian Heritage Press, 311 pages, $25) Version 1.0.0 “Our world is utterly different from the one that existed just a few decades ago. But how did this happen? Why did everything change?” These words provide the focus of this important book. The author, Jonathon [...]
Rory Leishman: In a landmark ruling on April 16, a five-judge panel of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (the country’s highest court of appeal since 2009) unanimously upheld the plain words of the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010). Would that the Supreme Court of Canada would do the same in interpreting the laws and the Constitution of Canada. At issue [...]
Paul Tuns: Long-time Interim columnist Frank Kennedy has died at the age 97 on May 14. Frank Kennedy, along with his wife, Ileen, was active in their North York, Ont., parish, Blessed Trinity, and the pro-life movement. Frank Kennedy served as a columnist for The Interim from the mid-1980s to 2014 and as the paper’s Queen’s Park correspondent for many years. In [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life Imagine planning for the biggest day of your life only to have it blow up in your face and turn into the most humiliating moment you ever experienced. Some privacy would be a blessing to help you evaluate what happened, right? Well, imagine having TV cameras in your face instead, with millions [...]
Oswald Clark: Planned Parenthood of America (PP) released its 2024 annual report which revealed the organization committed 402,230 abortions in 2023-24 and received $792.2 million in federal funding. In 2022-2023, PP committed 392,712 abortions and raked in $699 million from taxpayers. The $792.2 million in “government health services reimbursement and grants” funding represented a 13 per cent increase compared to 2023 making [...]
Oswald Clark: On May 1, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a comprehensive 409-page review, “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,” which found gender-affirming interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex reassignment surgeries are supported only by low- or very low-quality evidence, while the potential for irreversible harm is substantial. A review [...]