From Calvinist to Catholic Peter Kreeft (Ignatius, $28.95, 192 pages) These pages review a lot of Peter Kreeft books because Kreeft, a Catholic, writes a lot of books, most of which are easily recommendable to everyone open to faith and reason. At the age of 88, Kreeft has published his autobiography, From Calvinist to Catholic, but it is not a complete autobiography, [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Socrates Meets Box Set (Word on Fire, $139.95 USD, eight volumes, 1712 pages) Between 2003 and 2014, the prolific author Peter Kreeft published eight books in which he imaginatively has Socrates interrogate eight famous philosophers: Macchiavelli, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Marx, Kierkegaard, Freud, and Sartre. Now, for the first time, these eight books have been collected in a (handsome) boxset [...]
Canadians divided on abortion, euthanasia, not so much on divorce, contraception Paul Tuns: On Oct. 16, Research Co. released the results of their online poll on what behaviours Canadians find morally acceptable from abortion and euthanasia to marital affairs and gambling. With the exception of pedophilia, there was significant support for most immoral behaviours and majority support for many of them. While [...]
Paul Tuns: In three videos released by Right Now, a pro-life group, abortuary staff and a hospital worker indicated to the organization’s cofounder, Alissa Golob, who was five months pregnant and pretended to be seeking an abortion, that she could obtain an abortion for any reason, or no reason. Abortion advocates and pro-abortion politicians have claimed that late-term abortions are only committed [...]
Dr. Balfour Mount, 1939-2025 Dr. Balfour Mount, often dubbed the Father of Palliative Care in Canada, died on Sept. 25. He received his medical training at McGill University in Montreal. As urologist and surgical oncologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, he conducted a study in 1973 on the care provided to terminally ill patients and found that they often received inadequate [...]
Josie Luetke: Last month, I shared how Campaign Life Coalition, with the help of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, is legally challenging the rules barring abortion victim photography or any “signs or banners that display explicit graphic violence or blood” on Parliament Hill. Our hearing date, originally scheduled for Oct. 2, has been postponed, but since I last wrote, the respondents, [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Last month, critic Ted Gioia published an article on his Substack site, The Honest Broker, titled “Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased?” He begins by responding to an Atlantic magazine story about the writer John Cheever, once a major figure in American literature until his death in 1982, though as the writer [...]
Rory Leishman: The Free Press is an outstanding, new media company founded and edited by Bari Weiss, a former columnist for The New York Times who quit that newspaper in disgust over its woke, left-wing ideological bias. In her letter of resignation, she charged that at The Times: “Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, [...]
John Carpay: For power-hungry tyrants, government control over the internet is non-negotiable. The internet facilitates the exercise of our Charter freedoms, including freedom of expression, association, and even conscience and religion. Tyranny does not thrive and flourish when free people can communicate with each other freely. First, the federal Online News Act required social media companies to compensate news outlets for any [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life Do you know why we have the stereotype that professional athletes are into gambling, partying hard, and having babies out of wedlock with multiple women? Precedent. I don’t need to point to any specific examples here, but you know I’m right. Let’s face it: Pro-sports is a world that seems to enable [...]
Donald DeMarco: I had a terrible dream last night. Maybe it was brought about by that extra slice of “everything on it” pizza I consumed before I retired. It was having its revenge. At any rate, the dream was not only terrifying, but it lasted a long time. I hastened to write it down before I forgot the incidents that rose to [...]
From the editor’s desk: From the editor's desk On pages 14 and 15 of this issue we have book reviews of three giants of mid-20th century conservatism: William F. Buckley, Frank S. Meyer, and James Burnham. All three were at the founding of National Review, a magazine that has shaped U.S. conservatism since its founding 70 Novembers ago in 1955. [...]
Classic Literature Made Simple: Fifty Great Books in a Nutshell Joseph Pearce (Ignatius Press, $17.95 USD, 227 pages Great Books for Good Men: Reflections on Literature and Manhood Joseph Pearce (Ignatius Press, $17.95 USD, 153 pages Joseph Pearce, author of numerous literary studies and editor of the St. Austin Review, has had published two similar but distinct books on great literature. In [...]
Estimated 20,000 attend Life Chain The 2025 Life Chain, held on Sunday, October 5 in most locations, marked the 35th year of this powerful demonstration in Canada. The Life Chain Canada committee used the occasion to launch a new online hub [...]
Interim Staff MP Rachael Thomas (Lethbridge, Alberta) told the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) targets pro-life advocates. On Sept. 24 Conservative MP Rachael Thomas (Lethbridge, Alberta) told the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) targets pro-life advocates. She said that CAHN has been funded by the federal government and [...]