Joanna Baron: Blame Big Tech all you like, but polarization is in our nature
Big tech platforms serve as an etheric parrot that collects information on our impulses and mirrors back the content we find tantalizing
Culture
Caroline Elliott: Let’s harness dissent, not hide it
Tocqueville was writing 200 years before social media and cancel culture became features of our own political conversations
Howard Anglin: Cheer up, Canada. There’s nothing we can do
We are yoked to a stagnant American civilization and infected by its pathologies
Ginny Roth: A conservative feminism would go beyond the labour force
Conservatives have the opportunity to articulate their own feminism informed by choice, dignity and the pursuit of a good life
Rudyard Griffiths: The pandemic is tearing up our social contract
It is becoming starkly evident that we have failed every major test of the pandemic
