Tag Archives: Canada

A study on America’s demographic-national crisis — Early-2020s birth-data by race; and developments in the White birth-share in the USA, 1920s to 2020s


The USA’s ongoing demographic-national crisis: slow but steadily moving, largely downplayed by the system that oversees and manages it, and therefore more “beneath the waves of public-consciousness” than not. What do we call a “crisis” that is seldom talked about … Continue reading

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On the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), its turn towards Wokeness, the OSF Board, and the role of Asians in the USA


(2200 words) “Our motto, almost from the beginning, has been: ‘What’s past is prologue’.” — Jerry Turner, artistic director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1991 _____________ The role of Asians in the USA: the “diasporic ethics”; the instinct towards monopoly; the low … Continue reading

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The Cinephobe, on immunity from the Corona-Panic of 2020


The following 800-word essay, by The Cinephobe of Canada, engages with the question of “immunity” from the Corona-Panic in 2020. It is, at core, a personal essay on why one man feels he himself was “immune.” It is not necessarily … Continue reading

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Book review: “Covid-19: The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic” (2021): insights into the Corona-Panic in Canada and an intellectual framework for the Panic


(Part of an intended ongoing series of reviews-and-responses to books on the Corona-Panic of the early 2020s.) I liked this book, though it may not suit all audiences. COVID-19: The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic packs rather a lot … Continue reading

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Scenes from the “Defeat the Mandates” rally (Washington D.C., Jan. 23, 2022) and thoughts on its place in Corona-Panic history


A place there surely will be, in the annals of the early-2020s Corona-Panic, for the “Defeat the Mandates” rally, held Washington, D.C., on Sunday, January 23, 2022. To my knowledge, “Defeat the Mandates” was the largest single show-of-force protest- or … Continue reading

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Reflections on the 2010s: Political (The decade the cordon-sanitaire was finally breached)


[Originally posted, Dec. 30, 2019, to commemorate the close of the decade; significantly expanded, Jan. 5, 2020] As I write, the decade of the 2010s will be fully in the books within a matter of hours. No better time to … Continue reading

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