Category: Opinion

The Opioid Crisis Reflects a Failure of Public Policy – It’s Time to Change Course

Commentary What is the end goal of a policy that deals with drug addiction? That’s the key question that political leaders and societal stakeholders should be considering as they announce ever more alarming initiatives in an attempt to limit the number of drug-overdose deaths across Canada. After all, in the end, there are only two…


​​Taking Stock of Bidenomics

Commentary Speaking in Chicago last week, President Joe Biden made one of the early speeches of his 2024 reelection campaign. Mindful that the state of the economy is a primary concern of American voters in every presidential election, Mr. Biden trumpeted the alleged successes of his policies. In his words, “Bidenomics, we’re turning this around….


Beijing Stokes America’s Next Cuba Crisis

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited China, seeking to restore high-level dialogue between Washington and Beijing. But some pundits, such as Alexander Ward and Jonathan Lemire for Politico, have commented that Mr. Blinken’s trip was overshadowed by news that China and Cuba are in talks to establish a joint military-training facility on the island,…


Woke Inclusivity Opens Gates to Exclusion and Division

Commentary Canada’s federal government has cheerfully proclaimed June to September to be Pride Season. Beyond the commonplace vulgarity in pride parades, one reasonably perceives a push to include new identities. And generous Canadians are inclusive. But a push for inclusion is a push for power, and that makes inclusion a complex political beast. For starters, unless…


The Greatest Victory of Liberty in Our Lifetime

Commentary Here we are on the Fourth of July 2023 wondering what has become of American liberty. On this very day, a federal judge in Texas has shown us that the cause is not hopeless. In a tremendous victory for free speech, the Bill of Rights, and freedom generally, Judge Terry A. Doughty has issued…


Looking Back at Blinken’s Trip to Beijing

Commentary Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently completed a “chief supplicant” mission to Beijing on June 19. The Cambridge Dictionary defines a supplicant as “a person who asks a god or someone who is in a position of power for something in a humble way.” Who could argue that Blinken acted otherwise? During the brief trip, he apparently made no “big asks” in representing U.S. interests and…


Ban Shein, China’s Fast-Fashion Company

Commentary Shein, China’s fast-fashion company, moved its headquarters from Nanjing to Singapore last year, apparently in an attempt to globalize and escape the bad reputation of its parent country. Yet most of its business operations, including almost all its factories and warehouses, remain in China. Shein apparently tried to rehabilitate what’s left of its China…


CISA Was Behind the Attempt to Control Your Thoughts, Speech, and Life

Commentary Keeping up with the corruption of the COVID regime feels like drinking from a firehose. The volume of the fraud, the pace of new discoveries, and the breadth of the operations are overwhelming. This makes it imperative for groups like Brownstone Institute to digest the onslaught of information and communicate salient themes and dispositive…


Sorry but Serious Harms From the Vaccine Are Not Rare

Commentary Drug regulators and public health agencies have saturated the airways with claims that serious harms following COVID vaccination are “rare.” But there has been very little scrutiny of that claim by the media, and I could not find an instance where international agencies actually quantified what they meant by the term “rare” or provided a scientific…


The Oath: A Warrior’s Core Belief

Commentary When you listen to the National Anthem, do you get tingles that run up your spine? When you see someone in need, do you help? Is there something deep in your core? For us, who raised our right hand and swore the oath, we believe in the oath, and that it is worth dying…