A return to order: Burning France must choose between chaos and civilisation
The French establishment may be learning—slowly, painfully, and perhaps too late—that sustaining a civilisation requires the same discipline that was required to build it.
In Fairy Creek, there's so much at stake for so little gain
The more I talked to the people in the camps, the less I liked their cause, while the further I got from the protesters and into the forest, the more I understood why they were there.
Canada could learn from France about protecting kids from porn and Big Tech
French laws barring children from social media passed with unanimous support in the National Assembly, while here in Canada, not a single party is even proposing to protect children from Big Tech’s predations.
What to say when 'experts say'
By filling mainstream media with Twitter-level commentary from experts grasping beyond their expertise, journalists are making news reporting increasingly look and sound like social media. This isn’t reporting, it’s narrative building by proxy.
Pizza is the true secret to good mental health
Pizza night is a secular sacrament that orders time and locates you within it. It reassures and comforts by imposing rhythmic familiarity onto a world of kaleidoscopic disorder. And who couldn’t use that?
Spring returns, a king is crowned, and Oxford endures
May’s real winner was Charles, who seemed mostly relieved but slightly overwhelmed by his coronation and being crowned next to his queen, Camilla. Theirs is a great love story for our time—an anti-fairy tale romance, as all the great love stories are
Canada's top men
Between superannuated supremes and eminent Canadians, our federal politics can sometimes feel like a collegial class of old friends swapping favours and extending to each other a presumption of trust and goodwill that very few ordinary Canadians think they deserve.
Canada’s new passport is too boring to be angry about
Of course it’s bad, but honestly I was expecting worse. I was almost relieved when it turned out to be just offensively inoffensive, rather than actively offensive.
Is smoking cool again?
Old habits die hard, apparently. While it may not be as ubiquitous a habit as it once was, smoking cigarettes appears to be the new retro, taboo-flouting trend of Gen Z’s It crowd.
Do we live in a civilisation?
We live in the valley between civilisations, in the shadow of a peak still visible behind us but unable yet to see the peak in front of us. This should not be cause for despair. Although the history of man has been the story of the rise and fall of civilisations, the most important thing is that civilisation has never yet died out altogether; it has always been preserved somewhere.