By Peter Copeland

Peter Copeland works in politics. He writes about politics, policy and culture from a philosophical perspective.

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Light from the sunset hits the skyline in Toronto. Mark Blinch/The Canadian Press.

Peter Copeland: Canada’s changing landscape is marked by opportunities

Tensions in the history of colonization and migration reflects the perennial challenge of reconciling unity with diversity, and opportunity and freedom with equality and the nurturing of community and close ties.

Peter Copeland - June 30, 2021

For all the data points marshalled in Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, the progress problem is one of method.

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Peter Copeland: Progress is much more than outcomes — it is the quality of life

The gap in the Enlightenment story is that the good things in life are not found in the amount of a thing possessed, or the raw, abstract ability to choose from a dizzying array of possibilities, but in the quality of a life lived.

Peter Copeland - May 31, 2021