Geoffrey Clarfield

Geoffrey Clarfield is an anthropologist-at-large who has spent 20 years travelling, living, and working in East Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Remembering Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s Authentic Post-War Troubadour

Commentary Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot passed away on May 1, 2023. He was 84 years old. He will be ...

Viewpoints May 4, 2023
Thucydides in the Ukraine

Commentary Thucydides was a Greek historian. He lived and wrote 2,400 years ago. He was both a general ...

Viewpoints March 1, 2022
Canada: Modern but No Longer Very Democratic or Western

Commentary I lived in two developing African countries for 16 years: Kenya and Tanzania. Despite their countries having ...

Viewpoints July 21, 2021
Here Come ‘The New Cavaliers!’

Commentary Travis Perry holds an MA in history and answers questions on the website Quora. I have just ...

Viewpoints June 28, 2021
‘What I Do for a Living’ If I Was Israeli Ambassador to the UN

Commentary In one of our frequent conversations over wide-ranging issues, we asked how the present, or future, Israeli ...

Viewpoints June 17, 2021
36 Reasons Why Hamas Is Waging a Long-Term Jihad Against the Jewish State of Israel

Commentary The latest concentrated rocket attack on central Israel by Hamas in the functionally (and militarily) independent city-state ...

Viewpoints May 14, 2021
‘Tell Tchaikovsky the News’—the Absurdity of Cultural Appropriation

Commentary On March 8, 2021, the National Post reported that pop star Bruno Mars was being attacked for ...

Viewpoints April 27, 2021
Meet the Holocaust Survivor Who Wants to Create a New Jewish Holiday

Commentary She sits as erect as an English school head mistress. She can be just as articulate, as ...

Viewpoints April 25, 2021
To Heal Body and Soul

Commentary For most Israelis, the Galilee is viewed as a remote place where one goes to heal body ...

Viewpoints April 14, 2021
Let My People Go: Passover and Slavery in Iraq

Commentary On March 28, Jews around the world will sit down and feast, some outside in balmy weather ...

Viewpoints March 28, 2021
What Would Thomas Paine Have Said Today?

Commentary “Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from ...

Viewpoints February 18, 2021
A Time-Honored Recipe for Terror and Economic Collapse

Commentary If you're an average citizen and you work hard, you'll be paying attention to your job, your ...

Viewpoints December 9, 2020