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Three Books About Politics and Power That You Should Read
Plus, an appeal to help Umar Zameer and his family recover financially after his acquittal.
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Consumers Are Screwed No Matter What They Do
Buy stuff? In this economy? You're an indulgent hedonist. Don't buy stuff? In this economy? You're a dirty socialist.
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Feed hungry kids!
The federal government wants to fund school food programs throughout the country. In what world can anyone oppose this? In ours, alas. Here's why that…
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Canada Reaches a Crossroads
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We Should Be Angry
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Beware Pierre Poilievre's "Common Sense" Revolution
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We Need to Make Historical Education a Lifetime Priority
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Conservatives Declare War on Porn — and Privacy and Free Expression, Too.
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We Should Care That a Prison Has an Ice Rink. But Not for the Reasons You Might Think.
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We Need to Fix Democracy and I Need to Write Another Book.
Please bully me into doing this. And feel free to share your thoughts on what the mainstream misses when talking about self-government. Read on for more…
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An RCMP Report Warns That Canada Faces Major Threats in the Coming Years. No Kidding.
There's more to the experiences of people than aggregate data. And we need to reckon with that.
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I Can't Believe I Have to Say This: Predatory Loans Are Bad
Despite industry claims to the contrary, we're better off without usury.
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We Should Care That a Prison Has an Ice Rink. But Not for the Reasons You Might Think.
A Conservative member of Parliament is complaining about “taxpayer-funded serial killer pickup hockey." His rant is cynical, misguided, and cruel.
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Should We Be Civil?
When being nice is productive and when it isn't.
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Conservatives Declare War on Porn — and Privacy and Free Expression, Too.
Pierre Poilievre wants to introduce an age-verification system for online smut. He wants to do it in the worst way possible.
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I Promised Myself I Wasn't Going to Write About Lobster.
And yet, here we are. Because sometimes extremely-online discourse says something about broader issues that we should be paying attention to.
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David Moscrop
David Moscrop
A critical look at politics, policy, democracy, and economics around the world from an author, full-time journalist, and sometimes-academic
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My book 'Too Dumb for Democracy?'
My columns in the Washington Post
My podcast Open to Debate
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