Archive - Deeply Problematic

Canadian Business-School Tip: Analyze the ‘Salience of Positionality’ in ‘Your Place of Workship’

At Western University's Ivey Business School—Canada’s top-rated business program—students recite pre-scripted social-justice jargon to fulfill mandatory…

Mar 3 •

February 2024

As Alberta Adopts Common-Sense Rules for Trans-Identified Children, Social-Justice Hash-Taggers Rend Garments (Again)

Let’s take a look at some of the rhetorical gambits on display

Feb 1 •

November 2023

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Nov 22, 2023 •

Thanks to Hamas and Its Cheerleaders, Canadians Are Getting a Good Look at What Real Antisemitism Looks Like

The same ‘anti-hate’ watchdogs that issued apocalyptic denunciations of the Ottawa convoy have become strangely silent now that campus progressives are…

Nov 20, 2023 •

It’s Okay to Stop Talking About the War

Among some fellow Israel supporters, strident online advocacy for the Jewish state is becoming an all-consuming, psychologically unsustainable…

Nov 13, 2023 •

September 2023

The Courage to Dig

Here’s a salute to the Indigenous leaders searching for those infamous ‘unmarked graves.‘ Unlike Canada’s white media and political establishment, they…

Sep 27, 2023 •

July 2023

Genderwang Enters Its Apocalyptic Phase

As biological reality re-asserts itself in the public debate about gender identity, progressive cultists are staging a public meltdown.

Jul 10, 2023 •

June 2023

How Can Ottawa Criminalize Residential School ‘Denialism’ If No One Can Even Define It?

Canada’s social panic over claimed unmarked graves enters an unsettling new phase.

Jun 25, 2023 •

McMaster University’s 2020 Sex-Ring Social Panic

The lengthy Quillette investigation that kept me off Substack for the last two months

Jun 18, 2023 •

April 2023

Tarek Fatah, RIP (November 20, 1949 — April 24, 2023)

A column I wrote in 2017

Apr 24, 2023 •

The Blue Ticks Are Gone, and the (Former) Star-Bellies Are Having a Meltdown

If a social-media check mark is what defines your sense of self-worth and relevance, you’ve got problems that Elon Musk can’t solve.

Apr 22, 2023 •

Stop Calling It ‘Deadnaming’

Through the use of apocalyptic language, activists have stigmatized any discussion of biological reality as a dangerous—even murderous—form of abuse.

Apr 19, 2023 •

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