So you feel worn-out by the never-ending “peace process” involving two ethno-religious communities and their competing claims over a disputed territory. And you are not ...

Sometimes you write a column just so you can forever after refer people to it. “Oh, that subject/point/complaint/theory/argument? I tackled/countered/responded ...

In a syndicated column that was something less than objective, Matt Towery explains that “Romney has the most going for him in 2012.” According to Towery, “when staunch ...

As the world struggles to make sense of Anders Breivik’s ugly, senseless slaughter and largely incoherent online manifesto, you might have thought that the Islamist fringe would ...

As the international embarrassment known as the American debt-ceiling debate winds down and Congress decides on how much more they should rob unborn Peters to cover for deadbeat ...

Writing about the differences between Canadians and Americans isn’t as easy as it used to be. In 2004, for instance, the night before George W. Bush made his first visit to ...

I have argued elsewhere that at the age of twenty the normal human being’s development is pretty much finished. He is “cooked all through,” as it were. Not that we can’t ...

ONBOARD S/Y BUSHIDO—The thickly pined forested hills form a perfect backdrop to the not-so-wine-dark waters off the Peloponnese. Soft greens and blues are Edward Hopper ...

“Like a fire bell in the night,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, “this momentous question ... awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the ...

When we last left the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), they were defending their decision to permit sexually segregated Muslim Friday prayers in a public-school ...

The left gets a serious going-over on this site. Not that they don’t deserve it. If you come screaming into the room with an aluminum water bottle on your backpack and start ...

Though President Obama has run rings about the Republican Party in the debt-ceiling debate, that party can yet emerge victorious, if it will stick to its guns. Clearly, the ...

In a scene frighteningly reminiscent of the Mel Gibson movie Conspiracy Theory, I recently found myself in a cab as its driver regaled me with a litany of his fears and theories ...

Try to see it from the other guy’s point of view. He may be wrong. He may be, at least partly, right. Today, I am trying hard to see life from the point of view of an Israeli ...

Whaddayaknow? Margaret Atwood warned us that North America would turn into a theocracy—and she was right! Funny, though: She hasn’t said much about that lately, now that The ...

I thought I was inured to the unspeakable stupidity oozing out of Sacramento’s State Capitol, but I am still after half a century sometimes shocked to see what emerges from the ...