Nenshi: Right About LRTs, Wrong About Ideology
Calgary’s Mayor Naheed Nenshi visited Toronto last week and made some sensible comments about LRTs. He also made some mushy and poorly reasoned comments about ideology, his ideas are popular,…
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Nenshi: Right About LRTs, Wrong About Ideology
Calgary's Mayor Naheed Nenshi visited Toronto last week and made some sensible comments about LRTs. He also made some mushy and poorly reasoned comments about ideology, his ideas are popular,…
Nenshi: Right About LRTs, Wrong About Ideology
Calgary's Mayor Naheed Nenshi visited Toronto last week and made some sensible comments about LRTs. He also made some mushy and poorly reasoned comments about ideology, his ideas are popular,…
Nenshi: Right About LRTs, Wrong About Ideology
Calgary’s Mayor Naheed Nenshi visited Toronto last week and made some sensible comments about LRTs. He also made some mushy and poorly reasoned comments about ideology, his ideas are popular,…
Why Do Conservatives Accuse Everyone Of Marxism & Nazism So Much?
Anyone familiar with politics online has encountered the very common strain of right winger (some are “libertarians” instead of conservatives, but I didn’t want to burden the title too much)…
Why Do Conservatives Accuse Everyone Of Marxism & Nazism So Much?
Anyone familiar with politics online has encountered the very common strain of right winger (some are "libertarians" instead of conservatives, but I didn't want to burden the title too much)…
Why Do Conservatives Accuse Everyone Of Marxism & Nazism So Much?
Anyone familiar with politics online has encountered the very common strain of right winger (some are "libertarians" instead of conservatives, but I didn't want to burden the title too much)…
Why Do Conservatives Accuse Everyone Of Marxism & Nazism So Much?
Anyone familiar with politics online has encountered the very common strain of right winger (some are “libertarians” instead of conservatives, but I didn’t want to burden the title too much)…
Canada’s annual protest against women’s rights was…
Canada’s annual protest against women’s rights was held at Parliament Hill on May 9, 2013, drawing thousands of right-wing busybodies who can’t keep their authoritarianism in their pants. The name…
Market Totalitarianism
In a recent post I referred to conservatives who would prefer to return to the failed strategy of every person for themselves when it comes to retirement security as “free…
Conservative Pension Behavioural Utopianism
Conservatives like to portray themselves as hard-bitten “realists” who look objectively at the world as it really is and shake their heads at silly liberals with our rose coloured glasses.…
Any fool who still says “better dead than red” in…
Any fool who still says “better dead than red” in this day and age should have to prove it. Try both options and get back to us.
Why Liberalism? Part 2
In part 1, I outlined a view of what liberalism is, and an understanding of what “ideology” is. In part 2, let’s look at some evidence for the views I’m…
Why Liberalism?
In early January, Paul Krugman wrote something that actually cuts to the heart of perhaps the most important distinction between liberalism and other ideologies, particularly right wing ideologies like conservativism…
Why is it that on Wikipedia, Facebook and various other…
Why is it that on Wikipedia, Facebook and various other websites, the pushiest proselytizers are almost always the libertarian capitalists? They are like cult members. The glassy-eyed worshippers of the…
Standing Up To Bullies
As part of their ongoing mission to destroy the Enlightenment, the right has latched onto a tweet by Lawyers, Guns and Money’s Erik Loomis, a non-tenured academic at a Rhode…
Newtown: Another Expose on Conservative Ideological Bankruptcy
While liberals debate various forms of gun control, improvements to the psychiatric care system, and other actual measures to make slaughters like Newtown less likely, the abject bankruptcy of conservative…
A Genetic Justification For Liberalism
It’s little wonder that liberalism endorses science when no other ideology is more endorsed by it. Foundational liberal principles have been recently strengthened by new research, solidifying the ideology not…