The Land Does Not Leave With You: Alberta Separation

Living in Quebec, I watched firsthand how our referendums scarred this province economically for years, leaving marks that remain even today. Businesses fled, investment dried up, health care was affected, we had a huge population flee(including doctors), and it took over a decade just to stabilize. A small number of Alberta separatists seem to think…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Autism Fictions

I just read Hannah Arendt’s essays “Truth and Politics” and “Lying in Politics” for a Continental philosophy reading group I recently joined. In “Lying in Politics”, what troubled Arendt was not simply that officials lie, but that they construct entire alternative realities, elaborate “images” that displace factual truth altogether. She distinguished between traditional lying, in…

Thinking Otherwise…

Philosophy, data & little digital rebellions