Monday, October 13, 2025

Transitioning Toilets and Transforming the Mind

As I walked in the doors of the Social Science Centre at my one-time alma mater, the University of Western Ontario, I was struck...

The Vatican, Paris and Climate Follies

The Vatican has signed on to the problematical Paris Accord on Climate Change, apparently without reservations. Here are some thoughts. We’ve written before on the...

The Gnostic Roots of Transgenderism

Ideas have consequences, and few more dire than the idea of that one can transition one’s gender. The notion that our bodies may be...

Freedom of Speech, D.O.A. in our Dominion? In Canada, It’s 1984 All Over Again

(We posted this piece almost exactly a year ago today, but it may be even more relevant now, with Bill C-11 (formerly C-10) currently...

Kakistocratic Elites

Aristotle wrote that rule by the best is the best, which may seem tautological, but it does not seem obvious to many, based on...

A Happy Independence Day in the Not-So-United States

A joyous Independence Day to all our American readers, one that may be more muted than days of yore in the land of our...

Complacence, Complaisance, Courage and Christ

Saints Peter and Paul, whom we celebrate today, and John the Baptist, whose birth we recalled a few days ago, were neither complacent nor...

Should We Receive Communion Daily? A Respondeo

I heard recently a homily from a traditional priest, the theme of which was how often we should receive Holy Communion, which topic, funnily...

Seals and Crofts versus Roe versus Wade

In light of the hopeful repeal of the disastrous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion - or, more properly, making the illegalization of...

Warren, War and Pyrrhic Victory

Columnist David Warren, whose Canadian contrarian style I oft enjoy, or at least amusingly tolerate, recently claimed that defending Ukraine is worth a nuclear...