Commentary Summer is here. That means school holidays. For the best part of two months, children will spend large parts of their time playing with their friends outside. Or will they? According to a Save the Children report, children play outside with their friends far less than they used to, with over a third (34…
After China Woke Up
June 15, 2023
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Commentary “Let China sleep. For when she wakes up, she will shake the world,” a quote generally attributed to Napoleon two centuries ago became relevant again after the turn of the millennium when the momentum of China’s reforms was increasingly felt around the world. The word “appetite” is used in “China Shakes the World” by…
The Circular Nature of Political Extremism: Extremes Fuel Each Other
Commentary Political extremism is often presented as being a linear concept, stretching from the polar ends of the political left to right. But it’s better explained as being circular, where the extremes on both ends neighbor each other and share more in common than they do with the moderates in the proverbial middle. The primary…
Shawn Whatley: How Danielle Smith Could Transform Health Care
June 15, 2023
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Commentary Albertans re-elected Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party with a majority on May 29. Smith now offers a chance to change how we think about health care—a radically conservative vision. What might that include? Many conservatives trumpet out-of-pocket payments as the embodiment of conservative health-care policy. Danielle Smith’s critics inflamed fears of patient payment central…
Michael Zwaagstra: The School You Attend Impacts You for a Lifetime
Commentary As the school year winds down, many high school graduates are looking forward to their first year of post-secondary education in the fall. Everyone knows that some universities are better than others. That’s why students compete fiercely to get admitted to top-tier universities. A degree from a prestigious institution opens far more doors than…
More ‘Nanny State’ Not the Solution After Devastating Bus Tragedy
Commentary With a crisis comes the inevitable knee-jerk government response. It seems to be an affliction that is universal in Australia (and most leaders nowadays) irrespective of the level of government or its stripes. The reaction is always more state interference in our lives and regulation. The view being the quicker the better because that…
What Now for the Men and Women Without a Country?
Commentary I woke up this morning feeling as if I were a man without a country. The place where I was born no longer existed. It’s been that way for some time, but now is approaching the point of no return. I imagine many others, millions, are feeling that way now that Donald Trump has…
Newsom Bumps Heads With Hannity During Fox News Appearance
June 14, 2023
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Commentary If former President Trump can go on liberal CNN, why not Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sean Hannity’s conservative Fox News show? That’s exactly what happened on June 12, with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the interview posted on YouTube. I’ve been writing a lot about the governor lately, because not only is…
COVID Baby Boom? Mostly in Red States
Commentary James and his wife were not going to let COVID derail their plans to have a family. As pro-life Catholics, they viewed children as gifts from God, and wanted to be generous in accepting them. “We were living in rural Kentucky and the lockdowns did not affect our daily life very much,” says James….
The Alarming Dangers of Synthetic Marijuana
Commentary Cocaine. Meth. Heroin. Even the most sheltered among us recognize the names of these infamous illegal drugs. The “Don’t Do Drugs” mantra has been repeated with gritty persistence since my own days in elementary school. In 1987, I gaped over a bowl of Cookie Crisp cereal at the “This is your brain on drugs”…
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