Feature Articles
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Was Mass Immigration A Deliberate Attempt To Destroy The West?
Ethnic conflict is coming to the West. It is almost a certainty in Western Europe. America, Canada and Australia are likely to follow on the same path if they do not change course…
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The Cost of Security
The Western world is often defined by freedom. This century—and the many that came before—young men and women in the prime of their lives left behind families and livelihoods to embark on a journey, a journey that for many would be a one-way trip. These souls endeavoured to end tyranny and set captives free…
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Yes, We Need To Talk About Vaccine Cards
Canadians are being inundated with arguments that a vaccine mandate (facilitated by QR codes) is a simple solution to the COVID-19 pandemic that is consistent with Canadian culture, values and rights. While this rhetoric from the political and media pulpit is nearly unanimous and increasingly angry, it is characterized by an incredible oversimplification of a…
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The Club of Democracy
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 The term propaganda has the potential to evoke a handful of iconic images. One might visualize the agitprop of 20th century communist regimes, or perhaps a poster deifying a political leader. Maybe…
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The Transgender Debate as a Disagreement Over Terms
In relatively recent memory, individuals across the political spectrum could agree on definitions of basic nouns like men and women, but today these terms—perhaps more than any others—represent the growing schism in Western societies. At risk of oversimplifying the complexity of the varying perspectives, this piece bifurcates the debate into two camps: Progressives and Conservatives. The…
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The Word Goes Between
The word dialogue is rooted etymologically in the Greek language. Dialogos means that the word or words (logos) move between (dia) people as they converse…
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A Critical Mass
The largest civilizational and cultural upheavals in history have occurred as the result of slow and subtle changes in human thought. The introduction of Christianity to the Ancient Near East and the Roman Empire, for example, planted the seed of individualism that grew to choke out the long-standing culture of group identification, such as ethnicity,…
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Covid-19 and an Emergent Theory of Rights
The ongoing government response to Covid-19 has engendered much criticism over the curtailment of civil rights, but for many people public health measures are justified by moral considerations that are, on their face, compelling. It is easy to castigate those opposed to government measures as uncaring and reckless, willfully endangering the lives of the elderly,…
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The Seductive Dictator in the Western Mind, Part 1
There exists a myth in Western societies that individuals have strong philosophical and ideological convictions against dictatorships. It is comforting to think that within oneself and one’s neighbours sits a moral arbiter ready to cast out the impulses that made possible history’s worst tragedies. The disheartening reality, however, is that in most people lurks a…
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The Seductive Dictator in the Western Mind, Part 2
In this two part series, it is argued that the appeal of dictatorships is deeply embedded in Western thought. Part 1 discusses examples of democratic institutions or movements being discarded in favour of autocratic governance. Part 2, below, examines the ideological and intellectual foundations for non-democratic forms of governance, and in closing discusses the modern…