Imagine a world where there’s a fetching woman for every man, even if he’s Quasimodo. Where BMWs grow on trees. Where there’s a spot in the professoriate for every candidate who wants one. Under conditions of such plenty, there can… Read More ›
Everything You Wanted to Know About What’s Going On in the World But Were Afraid to Ask
AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING ABLEIST
At the beginning of every term I get a number of letters from the Disabilities Office telling me that this student or that has an unspecified disability that entitles her to half again the time allotted to other students to… Read More ›
ON CONDOLENCES
Allow me to just stipulate. By political individualism, as distinct from individualism simpliciter, I shall mean the view that what justifies the coercive power of the state are the interests of its constituent members. By contrast, for the collectivist it’s… Read More ›
ON THE RESEGREGATION MOVEMENT
Truth be told, there’s never not been segregation in Canada of its indigenous population. Even where it’s not legally mandated or enforced, we can see it on the school playground, in the gym, in our public parks, and so on. … Read More ›
AN UNSEEMLY THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ABOUT DESMOND TUTU
Here’s a fascinating statistical anomaly. Every Canadian soldier killed during the twenty year occupation of Afghanistan was eulogized as the finest human being who ever walked the Earth. Not a single asshole among them! Oh, and don’t forget that “He… Read More ›
INDIGENOUS SCIENCE
Some academics argue that, the Aztecs, the Mayans, and the Incas aside, the indigenous peoples of this hemisphere were at a pre-scientific level of development, and so there’s really no such thing as indigenous science. I think this mischaracterizes the case. … Read More ›
A BEGRUDGING DEFENCE OF THE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SYSTEM
I claim no conversance, let alone any expertise, in the residential school question, but I do know enough ethics to note that it’s feckless to condemn what was done in fact without offering what could have been done instead. From… Read More ›
WELL OF COURSE ACADEMIC FREEDOM IS POLITICAL
The scope of my academic freedom and of your freedom of expression are not coextensive. That is, I can, and regularly do, say all kinds of stupid things in the bar that I would be rightly disciplined for publishing in… Read More ›
RECOUNTING THE COST
My apologies to my many millions of followers for my having gone silent for over a month now. Such are the wages – well, at least sometimes – of still having a job. But I promise henceforth to put my… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 