Reading Time: 3 minutes Populism some call it, but the consequence in many regions around the world has been a slippage into autocracy
Tag: Dictatorship
China represents world freedom’s greatest threat
Reading Time: 4 minutes It employs its great military, economic and seductive power to advance repression around the world
China is driving the rise of omniscient machines
Reading Time: 4 minutes Are we prepared for a world full of machines, governing everything in steely alignment with the technocrats’ goals?
Brain drain puts Venezuela at a further disadvantage
Reading Time: 3 minutes If 7% of the Venezuelan population has fled, that must include some of the best and brightest
What CBC gets wrong about the crisis in Venezuela
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Maduro regime has inflicted massive human suffering. You wouldn’t know that by watching the National
Aung San Suu Kyi’s loss of Canadian citizenship should be applauded
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada is making a powerful statement about her role in denying citizenship to others in her own country
Stalin’s Moscow show trials a blind spot for western intellectuals
Reading Time: 3 minutes The eagerness of western intellectuals to justify the Moscow show trials of the late ’30s was what was truly frightening about them
Where the rule of law weakens, freedom wanes
Reading Time: 4 minutes Freedom and democracy are not stand-alone structures. For stability, they require institutional infrastructure, in particular, the rule of law and tolerance
When an intellectual cozies up to dictators
Reading Time: 3 minutes Democracy is anathema for those convinced of the correctness of their views, the righteousness of their morality and the superiority of their intelligence
The moral roadblock at the end of ethical shortcuts
Reading Time: 3 minutes The world is full of stories of people who have done the impossible, and it always begins with a goal. But is it a worthy goal and are the methods ethical?