Why Steven Pinker's defence of rationality is the only game in town
Errors of judgement and bias are endemic to humanity. The only way to overcome them is the rigorous application of critical thinking and rationality.
China is on a charm offensive. And it's not working
Professor Zhang Weiwei is an intelligent, scholarly, thoughtful, and soft-spoken spokesman for China. He’s also wrong about the West and too eager to promote CCP propaganda.
A better homeless solution for Canada: Follow Houston, not Seattle
Moving the homeless population out of City of Toronto parks was good for the city and the homeless people themselves.
Patrick Luciani: Is this the beginning of the end for communism in Cuba?
Is this the beginning of the end for communism in Cuba, or the end of the beginning, as Winston Churchill once said during the Second World War?
Hate does not live in Canada
The political left believed all humans were born good and made bad by society and conservatives held that all people were born in sin, and it took the strictures of society to save our souls. That trope has now been put on its head.
Patrick Luciani: Push back on the new theories breaching high school history classes
My only interest in high school history was doing as little studying as possible. The idea that I wanted history, or any subject, to reflect my ethnicity as a minority would have been absurd.
Patrick Luciani: Too many apologies cheapens our sense of remorse
There was never a groundswell from the Italian community for an official apology from Canada. The only winners in this scenario are a few self-serving politicians while Canada’s reputation is stained as a racist country with a distorted view of history.
Patrick Luciani: Blame government overreach for the decline in trust
Public trust in government institutions is in freefall