Culture & Society Articles
Courage in the face of school board censorship
John Carpay: In Canada in 2023, it takes remarkable courage to state the obvious. At a public meeting of the [...]
New Brunswick reconsiders trans student policy
Interim Staff: New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs announced he would review Policy 713, the province’s public school Sexual [...]
Planned Parenthood ventures into transgender ‘medicine’ to buttress bottom line
Mary Zwicker: Between July 2021 and June 2022, the year before the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, the United [...]
Ontario NDP proposes bubble zones to defend drag
Paul Tuns Two NDP members of provincial parliament in British Columbia and Ontario have introduced private member's bills in support [...]
A decadent end
In museums, libraries, galleries, and concert halls, one can watch a similar drama unfold. An incipient style—of a period, of [...]
Women and girls deserve safe spaces right now
John Carpay: The more that people possess virtues like humility, wisdom, courage, and self-control, the less that people need regulations [...]
Transgender follies
Rory Leishman: In a startling headline on Jan. 24, Scotland’s largest newspaper, the Daily Record, exclaimed: “Transgender Scot found guilty [...]
And then there was this, May 2023
Poland’s family centered values The European Union constantly pushes EU countries into passing laws which devalue the family, increase abortions, [...]
Freedom of choice and the problem with potential
Donald DeMarco: The word “potential” is mesmerizing. It conjures up a dreamland in which one can become anything he wants [...]
Against preferred pronouns
On April 3, Reformation 21, a Reformed Church website, ran an important essay by Rosaria Butterfield, “Why I no longer [...]
Behind the flag
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey My anonymous Twitter troll has seemingly finally moved onto bigger [...]
And then there was this, April 2023
Heterosexual students happier, healthier than LGBQ+ students The U.S. Centres for Disease Control has completed and released its annual Youth [...]
How to be first rate
Donald DeMarco: Arthur Rubinstein begins his lengthy autobiography by paying tribute to his aunt Salomea Meyer. Mrs. Rubinstein had given [...]
The next awful decades
Rick McGinnis: Perhaps because no place makes us more anxious than the future, there’s a bottomless appetite for predictions about [...]
Protecting your family from excessive screen time
Mary Zwicker: The family, the basis upon which society is built, is faced with challenges and threats like never before, [...]