What does the passing of a man in 2018 -- albeit a great one -- have to do with the recently-dawned New Year? Quite a lot actually. For...

A certain distemper has descended upon our times. What passes for discourse seems diminished, dominated by shrill voices from either...

There was a palpable sense, as one observed John McCain shuffle through the well of the US Senate chamber in Capitol Hill, that the...

To many people, certainly those who identify themselves as “progressive” in the pro-welfare state, LGBT-rights, Roe vs Wade, race/gender...

We often take diversity for granted., especially in racially polyglot nations like Canada, the US, or Singapore. In fact, the scope of...

As the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency recedes into history we are confronted with an objective reality that is larger than the...

“What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived.” - Jean-luc Picard Heroes die, we know that. They are, after all, only...

2018 is an important year for anniversaries. It is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela; the seventieth of the...

2017 was a banner year for comic book movies -- 'Thor: Ragnarok' brought a measure of hilarity to the Apocalypse; 'Wonder Woman' managed...

Like most years of late, 2017 wound down on a bittersweet note. This website celebrates one full year of existence in which our...

What is the secret to Bernie Sanders' enduring popularity? And why is he even in the running for the Democratic nomination in 2020,...

British cosmologist and physicist Stephen Hawking believes that “however bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and...

In the early hours of Tuesday morning last week, a lady of 81 passed quietly from this world to the next. Over the course of...

John Nash's life story should not have ended the way it did, on an innocuous, anonymous New Jersey turnpike in 2015. He and his wife,...

“And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.” --1 Corinthians 13:13 As Don McLean sang in 1971,...

When we think of charismatic, visionary Canadian politicians the surname Trudeau usually comes to mind, whether prefaced with a “Pierre”,...

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Heroism is essential to politics. We live for the moment when someone stands up in Teddy Roosevelt’s proverbial dusty arena and we...

Picture this. Receding silver hair tied back in a pony-tail, thick glasses perched on his thin nose, a wiry senior citizen steps into the...

Every generation has its heroes. These figures all have critics, but people in almost every demographic category revere them. Their...