Stop romanticizing pirates: They were just efficient thugs
Elected captains, clear rules and shared rewards kept their criminal enterprises running
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You’re carrying your health care early warning system is in your pocket
Your devices and AI are spotting risks to your health before they turn serious
Why McLuhan matters now more than ever
McLuhan was right: media environments now shape thought, education and public behaviour more powerfully than content itself
The Grenada invasion could have broken the Reagan-Thatcher relationship. It didn’t
Reagan sidelined Thatcher by invading Grenada without consulting her but the relationship survived anyway
Dead Wrong is dead right about residential schools
Dead Wrong examines how claims about residential schools became accepted in Canada despite a lack of evidence
Book warns the decline in marriage comes at a high cost
Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell, in their book I… Do?, write that the fading value of marriage is a threat to social stability
No, Europeans didn’t invent African slavery
African slavery long predates European involvement, according to a new book
Margaret Thatcher didn’t play the feminist game
Thatcher rejected modern feminist labels but shattered the glass ceiling anyway
Buffalo Bill and the making of the Wild West legend
Buffalo Bill turned frontier grit into global showmanship
The greatest Apache chief you’ve never heard of
Mangas Coloradas united a warrior nation, sought peace and paid for it with his life
William F. Buckley’s sharp mind still shapes conservatism
A century after his birth, he remains a touchstone for conservative thought
The Manhattan Project’s indispensable man
Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves had a reputation for getting things done
Progressive hypocrisy laid bare in We Have Never Been Woke
A trenchant critique of the contradictions shaping progressive politics today
