William Brooks

Commentary Debates surrounding modern education increasingly reveal a profound division over the purpose of schools and the process ...

Commentary At an April University of Texas gathering to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, ...

Commentary Evaluating the impact of a U.S. president has never been a simple exercise; doing so 250 years ...

Commentary Steps toward dismantling the Department of Education are greeted enthusiastically by Americans who believe that federal bureaucracies ...

Commentary In constitutional democracies, where political life is supposed to be governed by persuasion rather than coercion, the ...

Commentary Over the past year, Canadians and Americans have begun to regard one another as adversaries. Trade disputes ...

Commentary In the wake of the U.S. president’s 2026 State of the Union address and the forthcoming 250th ...

Commentary On the morning of Saturday, Feb. 28, we all awoke to an alarming development. Addressing the world, ...

Modern faith in scientific progress is corroding the religious understanding of human destiny.

A society that cannot recognize dignity without spectacle will eventually struggle to sustain civility.

Commentary When my late friend William Gairdner published “The Trouble with Canada” in 1990, he wasn’t announcing the ...

Commentary Early in 2025, for a mere $2.60, I added the complete works of legendary English author, poet, ...

Commentary In February 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested by the KGB, stripped of his citizenship, and expelled from ...

Commentary For many folks raised in the northern United States and Canada, the Christmas season evokes vivid childhood ...

The United States should not want to create a hostile or compromised Canada, and Canada can’t afford to ...

History warns us that the road to equity, although paved with good intentions, all too often leads to ...

Commentary Early this month, President Donald Trump proclaimed Nov. 2 through Nov. 8 to be Anti-Communism Week, with ...

Including opposition leaders in the annual ceremony would not politicize remembrance—it would complete it.

When a culture begins to value ideological certainty over factual accuracy, it inherits the spiritual cloak of Marxism ...

Commentary In a recent report from the Ottawa based Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), Heather Exner-Pirot proposed that indigenous consent ...

Commentary Every autumn, North Americans engage in an intriguing blend of festivity and reflection that marks the harvest ...

Commentary In this month’s edition of the Montreal Economic Institute's newsletter, MEI president Michel Kelly-Gagnon offered his organization’s ...

Commentary Late last December, Canadian businessman Kevin O’Leary, affectionately known as Mr. Wonderful, re-opened a longstanding public debate ...

Commentary Artifacts have a way of reminding us who we are. Family relics handed from one generation to ...

Commentary Early in September 2024, the National Archives reported on the launch of Declaration250.gov, a website designed to ...

The shift from virtues to values launched a revolution in thought that was both deceptive and troublesome. Today, ...

The U.S. establishment’s capitulation to the global left led to a complete occupation of U.S. institutions and the ...