Modern right-wing nationalism isn’t politics—it’s branding. A sharp, unsparing look at how flags, fear, and merch replaced governance.
The Seduction of Simplicity: A Rigorous Critique of Thomas Sowell’s Economic and Cultural Claims
A rigorous critique of Thomas Sowell’s work, exposing gaps, contradictions, and flaws in his economic and cultural arguments.
Digital Authoritarianism Is Here: How Surveillance States Are Quietly Rewriting Democracy
Digital authoritarianism is reshaping democracy through AI surveillance and algorithmic governance. What does it mean for Canada and the world?
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How AI Art is Changing the Value of Human Creativity Forever
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Borders as Absurd Theater — Examining the Rituals of Immigration & Nationalism as Stagecraft
by Mark Osborneby Mark Osborne 14 minutes readBorders function as absurd theater, masking economic motives and arbitrary rituals that uphold nationalism, control movement, and preserve inequality.
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From Acid Trips to Ad Clicks: The Enshitification of Counterculture
by Rory Cornelius 11 minutes readA fierce takedown of how rebellion gets sanitized, repackaged, and sold back to us as lifestyle branding—and why true counterculture survives anyway.
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How Brain Structure Shapes Political Bias: The Neuroscience Behind Right-Wing Authoritarianism
by Rory Cornelius 15 minutes readNew neuroscience suggests reduced prefrontal cortex volume may underlie rigidity, in-group bias, and lower empathy in right-wing authoritarian minds.
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Why So Many People Left the Church: A Modern Map of Belief and Doubt in the West
by Rory Cornelius 10 minutes readThere was a time when Sunday mornings meant something. The bells, the starch, the hats, the hymns — all that perfumed certainty polished up and paraded in front of God and the neighbors. You could feel the moral architecture of a civilization humming under the organ pipes. …
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A deep dive into how “third places” — the public spaces that exist between home and work — are struggling to survive in the digital era, yet remain essential for social cohesion and creativity.
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This is Why the Anti-Smoking Movement is a Bunch of Immoral Low-lives.
Over a quarter of the world’s population smokes. Yet, mouth cancer is a very rare disease. That, by force of logic, makes crap like this …
