Donald DeMarco, Commentary: Poetry in the best sense offers us glimpses into reality that we can ill afford to do without. Science, opinion polls, psychological theories, and the like, are but shadows in comparison with the light by which poetry can illuminate certain realities. G.K. Chesterton maintained that “great poets use the telescope as well as the microscope.” This paradoxical feature may make [...]
Paul Tuns: A CNN report on the May 23 mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school began, “we may never know why a shooter gunned down 19 children and two teachers in a massacre Tuesday at Robb Elementary School …” Not specifically, no. Reasonable explanations often betray such evil acts. But it is not impossible to diagnose the moral muck from [...]
From the editor's desk: I had planned to use this column to write about the Uvalde school shooting in Texas on May 18, and how it ties back to abortion and other cultural rot. I’m postponing that essay because this issue is jam-packed with a lot of “heavy” material. Instead, I return to covering a miscellany of events as is my usual [...]
Rory Leishman: In response to a leaked document suggesting that the Supreme Court of the United States is poised to overturn its 1973 Roe decision which purported to find a hitherto unknown right to abortion hidden in the United States Constitution, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a public statement alleging: “The right to choose is a woman’s right and a woman’s right [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Nearly 15 years ago, Emory professor Mark Bauerlein wrote The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, a warning that the cohort just making their way out of the educational system were going to wrack havoc on civic and cultural life. It joined a library of books [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey A few months ago, CLC Youth’s virtual pro-life club watched a bunch of clips from television and film intending to normalize abortion. Despite this agenda, the somber nature of abortion couldn’t quite be obscured, almost as if the scriptwriters, directors, and actors knew they couldn’t depart too far from reality if they [...]
Andrew Lawton: I often lament how the mainstream media ignores stories that don’t fit whatever the official narrative of a particular subject is. This is, of course, short-sighted of me. With many of these stories, I wouldn’t want the mainstream media to pay attention only to add their trademark spin. One of this summer’s most-ignored stories was Canadian Armed Forces veteran James [...]
John Carpay: Must freedom perish in a quiet, deadening accommodation with totalitarian evil? This question was asked by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in a speech he gave to the Parliament of the United Kingdom on June 8, 1982. Four decades later, Reagan’s speech is just as relevant. “Democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of oppression,” noted Reagan. How true today, considering Communist [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey The news about the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade has re-illuminated our ultimate goal of criminalizing abortion, for no human rights injustice should be legal. The inevitable question, which already arose at our press conference preceding the National March for Life, is whose actions we want criminalized. Are we going to [...]
Andrew Lawton: Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked what seems like a simple question: “Can you provide a definition for the word woman?” Brown Jackson said she couldn’t, famously attributing it to the fact that she’s “not a biologist.” The question is a necessarily blunt one, because most people know full well what a woman is and are [...]
John Carpay: Will Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, empower the federal government to censor controversial and unpopular speech on the internet? Not immediately. But the Online Streaming Act (OSA) is a significant and dangerous first step towards government control of the internet. The stated purpose of the OSA is not particularly controversial: to bring influential streaming services like Netflix, Disney and [...]
Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Rick McGinnis: There’s a fallacy that history and progress march in lockstep, and that we are constantly moving forward to an ever better place; it’s the appeal to novelty, which favours the new over everything else, if only because the errors and dangers of the latest idea have not become apparent. Citizens in a thriving [...]
Rory Leishman: In a proposed judgment for the majority of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson, Justice Samuel Alito persuasively argued that the Court’s calamitous 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade that struck down every state law restricting abortion was so completely and wrongly decided that it has no authority as a judicial precedent and should [...]
From the editor’s desk: Cook at Mercatornet made an excellent point about the abortion debate in the United States following the leak of a Supreme Court decision that indicates that the five-decade old Roe decision is about to be overturned: the pro-abortion side is going to have to learn to debate their position. For nearly five decades, the pro-abortion side has been [...]
AndrewLawton: A silly old cartoon came across my social media feeds the other day for the bajillionth time. In it, two people stand at opposite sides of a number drawn on the ground. One thinks it’s a ‘6’ while the other thinks it’s a ‘9’. The moral is supposed to be that perspective matters (though some variations take the relativist view that [...]