As I read through Carlos Lozada’s journey through the major titles of the ‘Trump Era’ in What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump, one book stood out to me: Angela Nagle’s 2017 book Kill All Normies. Amongst the diatribes of RussiaGate and Rust Belt anthropological studies, Nagle chose to explore the nascent role of the 2016 culture wars and their connection to late aughts Internet culture. As someone who was a teenager during those years, I was intrigued. The result? …
The MicroStrategy CEO has a checkered past and complex motives. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listen to him.
If you’ve been following the crypto space since the beginning of the latest 2020 bull run, you’ve no doubt encountered Michael Saylor. The bombastic, square jawed tech CEO has appeared on virtually every crypto and gold-focused news outlet in the last 12 months, and has quickly become one of Bitcoin’s most well known influencers.
It’s easy to see why. Beyond the fact that Saylor holds the title as the first major institutional investor of Bitcoin (more on that later), he brings a…
Now that we have finally entered what will (hopefully) be called the ‘post Trump era,’ I decided to take the time to read the seminal work of what closed out the ‘pre’ Trump era, Hillary Clinton’s election post-mortem, What Happened.
What Happened is the first book by Clinton that I’ve ever read, so that may have influenced my impression of it. Perhaps my hopes were too high, but in general I was greatly disappointed by it. What Happened is not bad by any measure, but considering the author and the subject matter, it didn’t come close to my expectations.
First…
Barring significant additions, Bill C-12 will fail at its mission to bring Canada’s to net zero by 2050.
November 2020 marks a momentous month in the Canadian fight against climate change. The Canadian parliament has officially tabled what will be the country’s most ambitious climate change law to date, Bill C-12. If passed, the bill would force all future federal governments to set legally binding emissions targets aimed at getting Canada to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The law is a necessary step, but in classically Canadian fashion, it’s lofty, abstract, and short on all the crucial details…
Remember the fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head during the debate last night? So fun! Have you followed the official Fly Twitter account yet? Nice to have a little break from the seriousness of our current moment, huh?
It’s really not nice, actually. You only have a few good hours to frame and highlight the events of a debate, and almost all of the key moments of what happened last night, which was albeitless lively than the first Presidential standoff a week ago, were lost in a sea of fly memes. It’s not funny, it’s insulting.
Where to begin with White Fragility? There’s so much to it, it’s difficult to know where to start. It’s one of the most talked about titles of our current moment, having rocketed up the NYT’s best seller list, and explores one of the most complex, charged topics of our time.
And that’s a shame, because despite detailing a very real phenomenon, White Fragility is easily the most pernicious and misguided book I’ve read in years. It turns racism into an odd combination of original sin, mental illness, and biological determinism. It pathologizes a regular human response to what can be…
September 2019 has seen a flurry of climate change activism. Major youth-led marches have taken place around the world demanding climate action, with media attention culminating with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg’s address to the UN General Assembly in New York.
Thunberg was on hand several days later at the Montreal climate march, where she had the unprecedented opportunity to speak with Justin Trudeau face to face.
There is much that’s been said about Thunberg’s role as climate activist, but here I want to discuss the other activist involved: Justin Trudeau. His status as Prime Minister of Canada and leading figure…
Do you remember the cryptocurrency mania of late 2017? When for a few weeks, it felt like the whole world was talking about ‘Bitcoin’? I do.
(If you’re new to Bitcoin and how it works, take a read here.)
First time I bought cryptocurrency? May 7th, 2017. The day I hit 1 Bitcoin? October 19th, 2017. Peak of the market (and my net worth)? December 17th, 2017. I don’t even have to look these dates up. I can recall them instantly, so burned they are into my memory as major life inflection points. Financial anniversaries. …
Don’t believe the hype. Youtube fans can be fickle, but James Charles has weathered the storm of his Tati Westbrook feud, and months from now this controversy will be a blip in the radar.
Over the past month, Youtube has witnessed one of its biggest feuds in years. The community has been rocked by two of its most prominent figures, James Charles and Tati Westbrook, viciously attacking each other. Millions of subscribers have changed hands, while dozens of prominent influencers, from Jeffree Star to PewDiePie, have chimed in.
Now that the fight has been brought back from the boiling point…
Over the past few months, you may have heard of the online competition between Youtuber Felix Kjellberg, otherwise known as PewDiePie, and Indian media conglomerate T-Series. It’s a feud that has been seeping out of the Internet since September of 2018, in what may at first glance be seen as an arbitrary battle over who can gain the most Youtube subscribers. Especially if you’re not on Youtube very often, you may consider it to be inconsequential.
You should not think of it this way. In fact you should be following it closely, because it epitomizes a very real phenomenon that…
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