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Don’t Pay the Dane-Geld
When Viking raids on England grew into Viking invasions, local rulers often turned to a policy of paying “Dane-geld.” That’s “Dane” as in someone from Denmark, which is to say a Viking — and “geld” as in gold.
It never worked. Yes, if you...
On Trade War
Let’s be absolutely clear about what happened:
First, Donald J. Trump threatened to hammer Canada with severe tariffs, which would do terrible economic damage to Canada’s export-oriented economy. This was a severe violation of the existing...
An Outrage Against the People of Greece!
I’ve now seen Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and I cannot hold my silence any longer: I am appalled by the racial casting of the movie. It is woke nonsense parading in the costume of an ancient epic.
It is sacrilege.
As Aristotle once w...
"The State or the United States"
Almost a century ago, Canadians faced a crucial choice. Would it be “the State or the United States”?
On this anniversary of Confederation, I want to dispense with the usual glowing-hearts routine and tell the story of “the State or the Un...
Gone Fishing
As assiduous readers will know, I’m currently writing a popular history of technology with the intention of crushing the pervasive-yet-seldom-discussed idea of technological determinism like a Mark V tank rolling over an army of pingpong ba...
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New York Times bestselling author of Risk (The Science of Fear in the US) and Future Babble. Co-author of How Big Things Get Done (with Bent Flyvbjerg) and Superforecasting (with Philip Tetlock.)
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