This is the forty-second episode of The Hub’s bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum. The two discuss Canada’s reactions to Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israel, the limits of pluralism and the need to reckon with antisemitism in society.
When news broke on Saturday morning about the deadly surprise attack carried about by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians the world’s attention was entirely focused on the Middle East and, at The Hub, it was no different.
Perhaps the live-streaming of a 21st century pogrom will make our leaders and our media think twice before blithely tossing around words like “racist” and “hate” to describe merely disapproved beliefs.
Because of the ground game, the Manitoba PC Party has been beaten but not destroyed. The party received more than 40 percent of the popular vote and can revitalize and rebuild.
Universities are under no obligation to comment on any events that do not directly affect students and faculty. But it is revealing to contrast how they have reacted to what’s going on in Israel to other events in the past three years.
Is the point to buck the latest trends, and run in the opposite direction of the madding crowd in search of undiscovered gems or ones that have passed from fashion and ought to be rediscovered? There is so much wine out there, it’s good to be reminded of some old favourites, like listening to an old album after many years.
This Thanksgiving, so many Canadians will be rightly thankful for their kids. We should give a thought to those who hope to have children and find they cannot.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features The Hub‘s executive director Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with New York Times columnist and Pulitzer prize winner, Bret Stephens, about Israel’s war against Hamas and its geopolitical dynamics as well as the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism.
Israel needs to achieve an “unequivocal victory” over Hamas in the Gaza Strip in the wake of a deadly surprise attack by Hamas terrorists on Saturday, said Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, in an exclusive interview with The Hub.
Israel announced a “total blockade” of the Gaza Strip in response to the devastating surprise attack by Hamas on the weekend that left more than 1,200 Israeli civilians dead.
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