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Jul 28, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Patrick J. Carroll
by PATRICK CARROLL -- The answer likely has to do with the way children are introduced to education.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Fr Patrick Gorevan
A great media brand has succumbed to publishing propaganda.
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May 21, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Steven Tucker
Can anything that we make up ourselves, anything that we have complete control over, really be a source of meaningful love?
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May 15, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Kurt Mahlburg |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
In mid-2022, I began to speculate that we were nearing “peak woke” — and I had more than a few anecdotes to back my case. As the months ticked on, more evidence accumulated. Then, late last year, Harvard University’s Claudine Gay scandal made global headlines. It was an event that I believe marked the high tide of wokeness in its most distilled essence: the DEI campus bureaucracy. Now, it appears that nothing can stop the bleed.
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May 15, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Mathew Otieno |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently made a minor splash in the international news when, towards the end of last month, it sent Apple a letter bearing a series of questions regarding the company’s possible usage of conflict minerals from the country’s benighted east.
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May 15, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Gabrielle Peters |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
“On the question of religious hospitals, despite being a lesbian couple, Patricia and I would tolerate life-size crucifixes in the treatment room if it meant being safe from MAiD.”~ Catherine Frazee, professor emerita at the School of Disability Studies at Metropolitan University, former chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and co-founder of Disability Filibuster. Disabled people often talk about being made invisible.
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May 15, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
The war in Gaza has given new strength to arguments about the evils of Western colonialism. True, conquering armies have done terrible things in the lands that they conquered. They also brought improvements. How do we measure the overall impact of colonialism? In this controversial but entertaining video, Michael Knowles points out that most nations and cultures have experienced colonisation and conquest.
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May 15, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Christopher Garbowski |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
In his recent book The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism of 2023, political philosopher John Gray claims to be writing a requiem for liberalism which he argues has currently betrayed itself. An atheist who has respect for religion, Gray adroitly combines the Hebrew scriptures and the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, author of Leviathan, a hugely influential analysis of state power.
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May 13, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Louis March |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
The West has long been obsessed with China. In the 19th century, the Middle Kingdom was dominated and debauched by Western trading companies, backed by Western militaries, pushing drugs into China. Remember the Opium Wars? Those uppity Chinese had the effrontery to destroy the British India Company’s opium and try to eradicate addiction. That was China’s century of humiliation. Now the shoe is on the other foot. China has roared past the collective West in so many metrics.
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May 13, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Steven Tucker |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
It emerged in late April that residents of Trump Plaza, a 40-storey skyscraper in the New York suburb of New Rochelle, had a real problem with their address: it was named after Donald Trump. As Trump is considered by all right-thinking American voters to be The Most Evil Man Who Has Ever Lived, some tower-dwellers think association with his name is pushing the potential value of their property down.