An ode to the button-down collar This year marks the 125th anniversary of one of the most quietly revolutionary innovations in men’s dress: the button-down collar shirt. First introduced in 1900 by Brooks Brothers, the style was inspired by English polo players who used buttons

Demographics suggest that this is probably right. I worry that it could have big implications for Canadian Conservatives’s pro-Zionism. In 2025, I suspect it’s still probably a political advantage (or at least politically neutral)—even though there are more than 5 Muslims for

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Progressives often characterize conservative tax cutting as an effort to “starve the beast.” The notion is that right-wing governments cut taxes to such levels that spending reductions become required to bring expenditures into balance with a new and lower revenue baseline. The

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As Joseph Steinberg recently said to me, we’re seeing a real-life example of Horseshoe Theory on the Canadian Left and Right on economic nationalism. It’s just as dumb to analyse Carney’s investment holdings for their relative Canadian share as it is to advocate for the government

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Ron MacLean has become an avatar of the Trudeau-era sensibility: inauthentic, performative, and mostly concerned with moral posturing. Maybe it's time for him to go. My latest for The Hub. thehub.ca/2025/07/14/sea…

I'm highly disinclined to this argument but if you were to convince me and other Canadians presumably you'd directly address the tradeoffs. There's nothing here about CCP's geopolitical and security aggression or its domestic authoritarianism or even its fundamental role in the

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The Conflict of Interest Act currently stipulates that designated public officer holders like the prime minister must divest “controlled assets” such as publicly-traded securities through (1) placing the assets in a blind trust or (2) selling the assets at arm’s length. There

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As a young person, I was impressed by the poetry and force of [George] Grant’s writing and vision, and also, even at the time, just the weird, wild, demented anti-logic of Grant’s thinking." — David Frum

Mamdani’s political base isn’t the working class. It’s the overeducated professional class whose political preferences include “luxury beliefs” on crime and policing and a self interest in pulling welfarism up the income distribution. We have an “elite overproduction” problem.

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“Two things are clear: that parents are unsatisfied with the public school system and are willing to pay out of pocket if it means more choice around how their child is educated.” — Ginny Roth and (((Brian Dijkema)))