Reading Time: 3 minutes History shows plenty of radicals who pushed too hard. We have plenty on today’s world stage
Tag: Idealogues
Is neoliberalism sinful or our salvation?
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s difficult to know for sure since academics and economists want to hide behind jargon rather than offering concrete analysis
Extinction Rebellion’s cult-like threat to society
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ultimately, they want nothing short of a transfer of democratic power to oligarchies of frantic enviro-zealots
Canada’s higher education system is in disarray
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mounting student debt and irrelevant fields of study have left us with a frustrated and unproductive young population
We need to find responsible government in a time of climate crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need real leadership now to calm climate change. Will that come from government, citizens, non-government groups, business or a combination of all four?
Why Milton Friedman’s ideas still resonate
Reading Time: 3 minutes Too much government control means society is less free and less prosperous than it could be
It’s getting impossible to escape from Trump
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our columnist hoped his summer vacation to Vancouver Island would be free of any overheated exchanges about the U.S. President. It wasn’t
What exactly do U.S. socialism enthusiasts have in mind?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Nordic countries, particularly Sweden, are often trotted out as great examples of superior social systems. But a closer look at the details raises concerns
Conservatives “the party of the uneducated?”
Reading Time: 4 minutes Contrary to a university professor’s snide remark deriding Conservatives, every vote matters in an election, from a garbageman to a neurosurgeon
Single-use plastic ban won’t solve waste problem
Reading Time: 4 minutes Economic reasoning and basic statistics show that such bans are largely symbolic gestures that come with real downsides