Both Canada and the U.S. are threatened by the tyranny of minority rule, just in different ways. The real problem in Canada comes from an unelected and geographically and socially homogenous group, known as the Laurentian Elite.
Tyler Cowen lays down a few criteria to get past the problem of political bias. Any candidate for the GOAT prize must be original, of great historical importance, a carrier of essential ideas, and know lots of micro and macro theory and empirics.
Books tackling a range of issues from the abandonment of meritocracy, the decline of the West, and the complicated life and legacy of George Orwell all had profound things to say, with lessons for our current unsettled moment.
The Soul of Civility by Alexandra Hudson is a well-meaning contemplation on the need to get beyond our anger while respecting those we disagree with. But in today’s political climate, we are required to do more.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the act looked irrational, even mad. Not to neorealists. The invasion was not only rational but also predictable. So argue political scientists John Mearsheimer and Sabastian Rosato in a new book, How States Think.
In the latest Hub book review, Patrick Luciani revisits Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Pantheon Books, 1978) and highlights how his influential book and his activism helped lay the framework, intellectual and otherwise, for the unrest of our current moment.
In their new book, Lukianoff and Schlott trace the rise of cancel culture from 2014, when canceling appeared uncontrolled in academia, the media, and the sciences. But something has changed since October 7, and the backlash has already started for those in higher education who are explicitly supporting Hamas.
Western diplomats, journalists, and B-level scholars got their wish. They helped to defeat a flawed and perhaps hapless leader in the Shah of Iran, and they inadvertently aided a greater evil.
To leap from learning more about how Rome fell to pushing for a range of progressive policies to save the West—policies mainly aimed at the U.S.—is stretching the fall of Rome analogy.
D.J. Taylor’s new biography delves deeply into George Orwell’s personal life and highlights how, like all of us, he was a complex man who had his fair share of failings and contradictions.
