Michel LaurentNot Your Grandfather’s WarWhen the war came, it wasn’t like we didn’t know it would happen. All the signs were there in the beginning. All one had to do was to look…Nov 13, 20183Nov 13, 20183
Michel LaurentFrom the People to a Population: The Integration and Disintegration of the Nation“Peoples are neither linguistic nor political nor zoological, but spiritual units.” — Oswald Spengler, ‘The Decline of the West’Aug 14, 2018Aug 14, 2018
Michel Laurent“The Stiff Upper Lip”: English Self-Restraint and Its DiscontentsStoicism, or its perceived tenants, has long been a quality that the English as a people have consistently admired among themselves. And…Aug 6, 2018Aug 6, 2018
Michel LaurentIn Praise of the DemagogueWhen we think of the word, ‘demagogue’, we generally imagine a rabble-rousing speaker who sways a crowd with extreme and often emotionally…Jul 30, 2018Jul 30, 2018
Michel LaurentShooting in Danforth: The Rise of ‘bloody’ TorontoRecent news of another mass shooting in Canada, this time in Toronto, has no doubt hit many Canadians in a hard place. Not only has it…Jul 24, 2018Jul 24, 2018