David Solway is a regular contributor to NER. Besides writing beautiful poetry and astute articles, he and his wife, Janice Fiamengo, also make beautful music. Their second CD, Book of Love, will be out this month and you can watch and listen to one of their new songs (written by David), Partial to ...Read More...

by David Solway Long ago, in another life, I belonged to the Union of Canadian Writers and was a member in good standing of PEN Canada. I’m can’t recall why I originally joined these guilds since I generally shun collectives of any sort. I believe I may have responded to an invitation or the ...Read More...

by David Solway The Canadian national temper is a funny thing, riddled with contradictions. It is plainly an abstraction, and yet it does seem to have discernible traits. Some jokingly regard it as absurdly apologetic -- a Canadian is someone who says “sorry” when he is jostled. Canadians are ...Read More...

Janice Fiamengo's newest video: Like many other academic fields today, Medieval studies has been rocked by claims that white supremacism and attendant far-right isms are deeply imbedded in the discipline and must be rooted out—in fact that there is nothing more important to do in the field than ...Read More...

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...