Affirmative Action Entrenches Division and Bigotry
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Every affirmative action produces an equal and opposite sectarian reaction. If a government frames public policy in a group-conscious way, it cannot expect grou... Read more.
A Look Back from Canadian Wildfires to Australian Bushfires and Floods
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Reports and videos of the smoke and haze from the intense wildfires enveloping Canada and drifting down south into the US bring back vivid memories of Australia... Read more.
Kennedy, DeSantis and a Covid Reckoning Election
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The political implications of DeSantis and Kennedy’s successful challenge against the establishment narrative on all things Covid would reverberate in many ot... Read more.
Blaming Victims for Failures of Government
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All these incidents of victim bashing and blame shifting responsibility for the failures of the core functions of government are symptoms of social anomie and d... Read more.
The Fraying of the Liberal International Order
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To no one’s surprise, the rising and revisionist powers wish to redesign the international governance institutions to inject their own interests, governing ph... Read more.
Media Complicity in Policing the Opinion Corridor
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Among the many startling aspects of the topsy-turvy world that we have lived through since early 2020 is the extent to which the media and social media, often w... Read more.
WHO to Govern the Health of the World?
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This is the stuff of bureaucrats’ dreams: the legal authority to declare an emergency and the power thereafter to commandeer resources for oneself from sovere... Read more.
Ukraine as a Proxy War: Conflicts, Issues, Parties, and Outcomes
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In a very real sense, Ukraine’s territory is the battleground for a proxy war between Russia and the West that reflects the unsettled questions since the end ... Read more.
My Transition from Nuclear to Covid
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The case for nuclear weapons rests on a superstitious belief of magical Realism in the utility of the bomb and the theory of deterrence. The extreme destructi... Read more.
What Is a Safety Signal and Why Does It Matter?
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The authorities intentionally conflated the common public understanding with the technical precision of the medical specialists in insisting that serious side e... Read more.
Beware Catastrophizing Climate Models and Activists
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The final common element is the subordination of state-based decision-making to international technocrats. This is best exemplified in the proliferation of the ... Read more.
Democracy Under Stress in America and India
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For decades, the US has tried to export and universalise bedrock American values like the rule of law, civil liberties, political freedoms and democratic practi... Read more.