OPINION

Commentary Every year on June 6, Canadians gather to remember D-Day. We remember the young men who climbed into landing craft in the darkness before dawn. We remember the soldiers who crossed the English Channel knowing that many would never return. We remember the Canadians who stormed Juno Beach and ...

Commentary With the signing of the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago, America’s founders accomplished something new under the sun: They brought into existence a nation rooted in the belief that individuals are by nature free and equal. This year marks another achievement for the Declaration: Never before has a ...

From technocrats to central planners, the temptation to engineer society persists. Adam Smith saw the dangers clearly.

Commentary Last week, we hosted our monthly Brownstone Institute Supper Club at Sovereignty Ranch. Our guest speaker was Mikki Willis, producer of Plandemic, The Great Awakening, and several other films that became touchstones for millions of people trying to make sense of the COVID-19 era. I expected the conversation to ...

Commentary Each year, the Census Bureau publishes population estimates for all municipalities in the United States with a population of 20,000 or more. Last month, it released last year’s estimates, reporting population changes for nearly 2,000 municipalities. According to the Census Bureau, the U.S. population grew by 1.8 million last ...

Don’t let artificial intelligence dilute your professional value. Human judgment is the only reliable signal in a world flooded with noise.

Victoria trustees should not be allowed to cancel the police liaison officer program when the evidence shows that students are safer when police are in schools.

Commentary Much has been written about China's rise. Far less attention has been paid to a more important question: whether China's economic model can sustain it. For more than three decades, China has been cited as an economic expansion success story once it eased its central planning efforts and ceased ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the United States entered a period that bears uncomfortable similarities to today.

Commentary AI data centers. The very phrase makes some folks shudder and others leap for joy. As these mega-developments proceed, more and more people are growing concerned about their energy and water requirements. Right now, data centers account for 25 percent of Virginia's electricity use; the next nearest state is ...

Commentary Anyone who has lived through the last several decades of technological revolution has been witness to a remarkable shift in public opinion. The backlash against the screen is hitting new heights as schools ban smartphones and unplug the expensive laptops that were supposed to save the world. It is ...

Commentary There are quite a few lesser-known Fathers of Confederation who deserve to be remembered for their cameo appearance, or even as best-supporting actors. Sir Alexander Campbell was a best-supporting actor, a reliable all-round steady hand, a good second string. Campbell was a key Ontario ally of John A. Macdonald, ...

Government-created healthcare monopolies are forcing physicians into a kind of serfdom, gobbling up private practices to extract doctors’ labor.