by David Solway Recently, my wife and I received an invitation from a respected friend to attend an event in support of the beleaguered Yazidi community of northern Iraq, now suffering under the predatory onslaught of ISIL and other Islamic groups. Soliciting a contribution of several thousand ...Read More...

by David Solway I recently participated in an email chain with conservative writers and thinkers on the inexhaustible subject of Donald Trump. Some of my correspondents, while supporting Trump as a political champion, regretted his "coarseness." He is, they alleged, rather too crude and rough ...Read More...

Why do so few university professors dissent from the campus orthodoxy? Because even the mildest form of ideological non-compliance, like teaching a Men in Literature course with Warren Farrell on the reading list, can bring years of persecution. Janice Fiamengo explains.  ...Read More...

Last week, an opinion piece came out in the Washington Post called “Why Can’t We Hate Men?” The author, a gender studies professor named Suzanna Walters argues that hating men is logical because men are supposedly responsible for vast amounts of sexual and institutional violence against women.   ...Read More...

by David Solway Most people are blissfully unaware of the havoc wrought by our misnamed “Social Justice” and “Human Rights” ideology until they are themselves hit by a summons, a legal suit or a ruling in law that deprives them of their peace of mind, robs them of productive time and leaves them ...Read More...

by David Solway When we had lunch together one afternoon a few months back, Canadian psychologist and university professor Jordan Peterson, who has risen to meteoric prominence for his courageous stand against political correctness and legally compelled speech, looked distressingly frail and ...Read More...

Excerpt: Where was one to start trying to educate an adult student who thought the Great Depression began in the 1960s; who was unable to distinguish between the First and Second World Wars; who thought that Moscow was the capital of Missouri; who was convinced the native peoples crossed the ...Read More...

by David Solway Frank Marshall Davis and Barack Hussein Obama Writing in American Thinker back in early 2011, Monte Kuligowski recounts how “Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., a/k/a Barry Soetoro, appeared out of nowhere as a political Melchizedek with a mysterious and unknown past.” It is not surprising ...Read More...

The Crux of the Matter Is Not Nativity but Documentation by David Solway A Highly Problematic Dossier It was obvious to me when I first began studying the phenomenally popular Obama early on in his heady career that there was something fishy about him. His words and promises and his very ...Read More...

poemsong, in memory of Leonard Cohen by David Solway   I travelled to the orient                                          Am, Em Where the earnest seekers went                           C, Em To search for wisdom, search for truth—                Am, Em   The illusions of our youth                                      ...Read More...

Janice Fiamengo explains how Canada's Social Justice Tribunals work on the principle that you can force people to respect others by punishing them over even trivial misunderstandings or honest expressions of opinion. ...Read More...

by David Solway Dear President-Elect Trump, You have gone on record expressing a presumably laudable desire to “bind the wounds of division” between your supporters and opponents—anti-Trumpers and pro-Trumpers, liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, left and right—that have torn ...Read More...

by David Solway There can be no doubt that the voting process was rigged against Donald Trump in more ways than one. According to reports, fiscal criminal and youthful Nazi collaborator George Soros’ vast fortune was in play to swing the election Hillary’s way, including fomenting violence at Trump’s ...Read More...

In Episode 48 Professor Fiamengo from the University of Ottawa discusses why academics bow to the mob. ...Read More...

I had always looked down on karaoke as a frivolity not worthy of a serious person’s attention. It was a perversion of the spirit of originality, a chastening spectacle of wannabes expressing not only their infatuation with certain kinds of music—often mawkish country & western—but also their failed ...Read More...

In Episode 47 Professor Fiamengo from the University of Ottawa discusses why so many smart people stand by while academia is destroyed by fanatical bullies.   ...Read More...

In Episode 46 Professor Fiamengo from the University of Ottawa discusses Single Sex Universities. ...Read More...

by David Solway The signs of the degenerative disease that has struck the West are everywhere to be seen. They are indeed so numerous that, although they are in full view, they have become almost invisible. The symptoms of moral, cultural, and political decay have become part of the very air we breathe, ...Read More...

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by David Solway The status of Islam should be clarified if the debate on how to defeat terrorism is ever to bear fruit. Islam, I would argue, is not a religion in the common acceptation of the term as a community of believers dedicated to the loving worship of the Divine, the sanctity of life, and ...Read More...

by David Solway One notices that when the current nomination cycle began, Donald Trump was more often than not referred to by his full name: Donald Trump. Or by his surname: Trump. As time went by, his iconic sobriquet began to be used on a regular basis, generally in a not unkindly way: The Donald, ...Read More...

by David Solway I recently came across a mewling article in one of Canada’s “progressive” mags, The Walrus, in which theatre critic Erika Thorkelson bemoans “the insidious sexism of the Canadian theatre world” and the comparative paucity of female actors and playwrights. Her theme is “gender imbalance” ...Read More...

by David Solway Men need to "be better.” —Michelle Obama in conversation with Oprah. Western civilization is clearly coming part at the seams. There are so many destructive elements at work, they are almost impossible to list. But one of the most destructive of these elements, incited by a ...Read More...

by David Solway Sometimes one is tempted to shoot the sheriff. When we take note of what is going on in the town -- the moral degeneracy of its affairs, the raging puritanism that has installed itself as a twisted form of prurience, cruel punishment for perceived sexual misconduct and natural behavior ...Read More...

by David Solway We live in a culture that has become so heavily sexualized that we are no longer able to see clearly or think rationally. Just about everything, it seems, now comes down to sex, which is, on any reasonable scale of values, merely one of many human preoccupations—central, of course, ...Read More...