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  • The Rebel “A chastity belt worn on the head”: There is nothing wonderful about the hijab Friday March 10th, 2017
    While I am still free to do so without penalty, I would like to make what might one day be construed as an Islamophobic statement: I am very disturbed by a growing phenomenon in the west I would describe as hijab reverence – what seems to me a partly well-organized, a partly jump-on-the-bandwagon campaign among our left-wing cultural elites. There is nothing wonderful or cha...
  • National Post Actually, it turns out that you may be less racist than you’ve been led to believe Tuesday February 28th, 2017
    I had the pleasure, a few weeks ago, of attending a seminar at Ryerson University as a specially invited guest to hear University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson address a colleague’s students on freedom of speech and gender issues that have made him a household name in Canada. I was of course already familiar with much of Peterson’s material from his videos, which didn’t dimini...
  • National Post Actually, one needn’t be a hysterical bigot to have concerns with M-103 Tuesday February 21st, 2017
    I have serious concerns about M-103, a private member’s motion currently before Parliament that would condemn Islamophobia. But I want to reassure my colleague Andrew Coyne that I’m not nearly as unhinged as he seems to think we critics are. Here is what Andrew wrote of the critics in his recent column on M-103: they’re a “most extreme voice” on “a most extreme p...
  • The Rebel This teachers’ guide might be a “draft document” of Liberals’ M-103 Islamophobia “study” Thursday February 16th, 2017
    M-103, the motion now being debated in Parliament, was carefully structured to look like an innocent show of solidarity with all victims of racism in Canada, with the casual addition of “Islamophobia” as a special cause for concern.  In fact, for those who crafted the motion – and whether it was MP Iqra Khalid, its ostensible mother, or the Pr...
  • National Post Enter Milo Yiannopoulos, progressivism’s spawn and history’s pendulum in action Tuesday February 14th, 2017
    Freedom for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is an organization that defends freedom of speech for students and academics at American universities. They’ve tracked disinvitations and speech disruptions on campus over the last 17 years and recently published their findings. From 2000-2009 disinvitations and disruptions occurred almost equally from the left and the right (on the right mostly...
  • The Rebel M-103 is a modern day blasphemy law, and “all Canadians should be worried” Wednesday February 8th, 2017
    Jews are far more likely to be victims of hate crimes in Canada than Muslims. But a motion called M-103 is coming before Parliament on February 16 to urge special consideration regarding “Islamophobia” without defining the word.  M-103 could lead to curtailments of freedom of speech deemed hateful towards Muslims, but also, critically, towards Islam itself. Blasphemy laws co...
  • The Rebel Missing Mary Tyler Moore in Lena Dunham’s world Tuesday February 7th, 2017
    The death of actress Mary Tyler Moore prompted a lot of reflection upon her revolutionary TV portrayal of a modern, single woman. Her show hit the sweet spot in the development of feminism, when it was still a reform movement. The women of my generation remember it as then being fluid, optimistic and democratic rather than ideological and dogma-driven. And Moore herself fe...
  • National Post Fascism in America? Sure, but not because of You Know Who Tuesday January 31st, 2017
    NDP leader Thomas Mulcair says Trump is a “fascist.” And so do countless others. Fair comment? No. It’s fair to say that all fascists are populists, but not all populists are fascists. When leftists say “fascist,” it often means “right-wing people or opinions that offend me.” In fact fascism can arise on the left or the right. I’ve seen several tweets linking Trump with the protagonist of Sincl...
  • National Post Betsy DeVos’ support of due process on campuses makes her an excellent pick for secretary of education Tuesday January 24th, 2017
    Barack Obama was the first president to make the advancement of feminist demands a priority. So the election of the sexist Trump has hit progressive women particularly hard. They fear that their hard-won battles for equality and rights will be rolled back by Trump through legislation or by the coming preponderance of conservative Supreme Court justices.   But there is one area that could s...
  • The Walrus Psychiatry's Chosen People Tuesday January 24th, 2017
    Jews have always had a special fascination with Freud’s theories—no one more so than my own mother   “The Jewish psychiatry of the communists is . . . a Godless criminal athiest doctrine of Frankenstein medicine that will condemn a man for having faith in God. How stupid and perverted are our medical people to base a medical system o...
  • National Post For me, another 10 years or so sounds about right Tuesday January 17th, 2017
    There was a woman at our synagogue I knew superficially, a widow about 20 years older than me, a fine amateur artist. At long last liberated from onerous maternal and breadwinning obligations, her aging father’s needs began to consume the time she had finally carved out to devote to painting. She would bring her father to synagogue, one of the few pleasures left to him in his radically diminish...
  • National Post U of T’s ‘antipsychiatry’ scholarship — and not believing in mental illness — is an attack on science Tuesday January 10th, 2017
    In November, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), an all-graduate school at the University of Toronto, announced it had established a world first, a scholarship in the “field” of antipsychiatry, to be named after its primary instructor, Bonnie Burstow, an associate professor in OISE’s Adult Education and Community Development department. Burstow believes there is no prove...
  • National Post It should have been obvious all along that Obama really favoured Arabs over Israel Tuesday January 3rd, 2017
    Given Obama’s education, mentors and ideology, we should not really be shocked by his long-calculated decision to have the U.S. abstain from voting on UN Security Council Resolution 2334, ensuring its passage. Israel-censuring 2334 is an effective repeal of Resolution 242, which promised Israel a “right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries,” leaving unspecified which territo...
  • National Post Review of The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama by Barbara Kay Tuesday December 27th, 2016
    After the federal election, an African-American child asked at a family dinner if he was now “going to be treated as three-fifths of a human being.” A teacher from a rural black elementary school reported her students were asking her if they would become slaves again. A black student told a guide on an outing to the nation’s capital he was afraid the new pres...
  • National Post Across North America, seeds of a religious rebound Tuesday December 20th, 2016
    My grandparents, immigrants from Poland and Romania, were Orthodox Jews and deeply observant. My parents, born here, joined a Conservative shul (mixed seating), and kept a traditionally Jewish home. My husband and I joined a Reconstructionist synagogue (liturgically traditional, theologically agnostic, anchored in Jewish “peoplehood”), and mainly express ourselves Jewishly th...
  • National Post One gay man’s lonely fight against Ontario’s new law banning ‘mother’ and ‘father’ Wednesday December 14th, 2016
    LGBT rights and pro-pit-bull advocacy are niche passions for the Ontario NDP’s Cheri DiNovo. The latter cause was my introduction to the MPP. Today’s column is about the former, specifically the recently-passed Bill 28, DiNovo’s “All Families are Equal Act.” Motivation for the bill was the aim of bringing legislative compliance to a 2006 judicial rulin...
  • National Post Curb the chivalric impulse, women don’t need it Thursday December 8th, 2016
    In a recent column, my colleague Colby Cosh took Conservative Party leadership candidate Kellie Leitch’s proposal that Canadians be allowed to carry chemical mace and pepper spray for self-defence a step further (or backward depending on your perspective): He would offer the privilege only to women, writing: “Perhaps I’m a little more feminist than she is: I would be co...
  • National Post Driverless cars are coming — but what about the fight for the right to drive your own vehicle? Tuesday December 6th, 2016
    Since 1982, alcohol-related fatalities in the U.S. have come down 52 per cent overall, and 79 per cent for drivers under the age of 21. What should be cause for satisfaction, however, has been overtaken by what economists call technological biteback, what happens when tech innovations improve our lives but also bring “grim and often unanticipated side effects.”...
  • National Post When reaching out to the Muslim community, choose your ambassadors carefully Tuesday November 29th, 2016
    Crime Prevention Ottawa (CPO) was founded in 2004 to develop strategies for enhancing community safety, addressing problems like violence against women, neighbourhood gangs, abuse of the disabled and hate crimes.   Between January and November of this year, according to Staff Sergeant Dave Zackrias of the Diversity and Race Relations Unit (DRR) of the Ottawa Police Servic...
  • National Post A Marxist revolution by alt-left millennials? Tuesday November 22nd, 2016
    In her post-election column, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan described the mood of Hillary supporters as one of “enraged mourning,” an excellent description for the emotional and often irrational reactions to Trump’s win we’ve all seen in the news and social media. My favourite was the New York woman who decided to make herself and daughter the focal po...
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