Opinions

Are wars inevitable? War crimes? If we really don’t want wars, it behoves us to get serious about understanding their causes, and choose to radically address them. Otherwise, what’s the point? Feeling a “rush” with folks at political actions only perpetuates our addiction to anti-war rallies, which do nothing to stop wars from occurring.…
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No-one reads anymore. This is something that teachers of literature like me are always saying. “Every generation, at some point, discovers that students cannot read as well as they would like or as well as professors expect,” wrote the scholar of literacy Martha Maxwell in 1979. But more and more, educators are finding that the…
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The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a wake-up call for President John F. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Both leaders realized that the military competition between the two nuclear powers could end in the annihilation of both countries.…
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Europe is plagued by a series of existential crises – all self-inflicted. A dominant therapeutic culture preaches utopian but deadly truisms. These wounds are now in their final stages, destroying the very civilization once conceived as “heaven on earth.” First rider: Radical climate utopianism Global warming hysteria wasn't…
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NATO is literally closer to all-out war with Russia than it has ever been before. Recently 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspace, and NATO fighter jets shot down several of them. “Polish fighter jets, with help from NATO allies, shot down multiple Russian drones that entered its eastern border early Wednesday, Sept. 10. It was…
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Lately, it has become increasingly evident that European citizens are growing weary of their political elites and the entrenched system of rotating figureheads who perpetuate the same policies year after year. The political establishment exhibits a rigid adherence to outdated approaches, and their arrogance – manifested in a belief that…
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We are living in a particular moment where mainstream communicators want you to believe the world is in a state of permanent war – even when you are walking peacefully down your own street. Your phone relentlessly feeds you images of bombings. News channels and politicians constantly warn you of imminent danger. This is how a…
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Billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day. The Internet and digital systems are insecure and cannot be made secure. To operate in the digital world becomes increasingly risky by the day and harder to use. The inherent…
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There are no limits to the insanity that progressives will embrace in their pursuit of power, and they continue to adhere to the fantasy that they are the “good guys” despite the fact that most of the world has been telling them for the past several years that their ideology is repugnant. The events in Los Angeles are just the…
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Lenin hasn’t been a favourite of President Vladimir Putin’s. He’s derided him: “Ukraine appeared in 1922. Now the grateful descendants are smashing monuments to Lenin, the founder of Ukraine.” The second last time he mentioned Lenin, in February 2024, Putin blamed him. “For some unknown reasons, he transferred to that newly…
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