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Little policy in the phony populism of Trump or Harris will address the problems of most Americans.

The Phony Populism of Harris and Trump

September 25, 2024/in Politics

There’s little in the phony populism of Donald Trump or Harris that address the fundamental problems of the majority of Americans.

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Collusion between Big Tech and Western governments is a growing threat to free speech

The Coming Strangulation of Free Speech

September 23, 2024/in Politics

Collusion between Big Tech and Western governments is a growing threat to free speech.

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Canada’s current immigration policies are criticized by the nation's liberals as well as conservatives.

The Liberals’ Open Immigration Policy Has Failed

September 20, 2024/in Demographics, Politics, Urban Affairs

Canada’s current immigration policies do not align with the country’s economic reality or popular opinion.

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The Fabians chart a political course that avoids extremes.

The Future Belongs to Fabians

September 18, 2024/in Politics

When the original Fabians found themselves in a fraught political climate, they succeeded by threading a path between political extremes.

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Kamala Harris has typically been a creature of the oligarchs who dominate today's Democratic Party.

Kamala Harris Runs for President as Businesses Flee Her State

September 12, 2024/in California, Politics

Good vibrations aren’t a policy platform. While Kamala Harris is campaigning on a promise to create an “opportunity economy,” employers are fleeing her home state of California.

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AI threatens the normal emergence of new markets, empowering existing big tech companies.

How AI Will Embolden the Tyranny of BIg Tech

September 6, 2024/in Politics

The emergence of AI is pre-empting the normal evolution of emerging markets, lending yet more power to Big Tech and their technocratic elites in government.

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Democrats green agenda may deliver the Midwest to Trump.

Democrats’ Green Agenda Could Gift the Midwest to Trump

September 2, 2024/in Politics

In the coming battle for the White House, the Democrats’ green agenda may deliver the Midwest to Trump, as an EV sales slump starts to impact jobs.

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Landing of Van Riebeeck at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, painting by Charles Bell.

From Settler Colonialism to a New Post-Colonial Settlement

August 29, 2024/in Politics, Urban Affairs

In this era of heightened racial and ethnic tension, few academic concepts have enjoyed as much success as “settler colonialism.”

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Photo from The Philadelphia Story, a 1940s romcom.

How Will We Survive the Sex War?

August 27, 2024/in Demographics

The roots of this war between the sexes is economic, exacerbated by the global “cost-of-living” crisis stemming from house price increases relative to incomes, higher energy and food costs.

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Kamala Harris has typically been a creature of the oligarchs who dominate today's Democratic Party.

Kamala Harris: Creature of the Oligarchy

August 24, 2024/in Urban Affairs

Kamala Harris campaigns on a faux-populist platform, but throughout her career she has been an ambitious operative of the oligarchs, and government bureaucrats who dominate today’s Democratic Party.

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