One of the reasons that I started Viewpoints, was that I was frustrated with the state of media in Canada. The biases, omissions and absences in coverage by journalists, and the cringeworthy and slavish adherence to groupthink narratives and talking points. Before I gave much thought to politics, I could feel that something had gone…
Yascha Mounk (a German-American political scientist and author) talks frequently about this incentive problem in media: that journalists who go along with group think and are wrong, never get penalized, while dissidents who were actually right at the time, never retroactively get their reputations back.
If you host a political podcast today, the playbook is pretty clear: pick a side, double down on its talking points, and give your audience the outrage they came for. But what if you don’t want to do that? What if your goal isn’t to score points for “your side,” but to open up space…
You don’t really notice it until you step outside of it. Canada has a pretty small Overton window — the range of political and cultural views that are considered “acceptable” in polite society. And by “polite,” I mean: what you can safely say at work, on the CBC, in a university lecture, or on a…
This is the second in a series of blog posts, where I discuss Canadian podcasts that you might want to follow, if you are interested in politics but want to balance out the overly left-leaning Canadian discussion. Part one can be found here. Please reach out to me if you have any recommendations for podcast…
I’ve been on the hunt for Canadian organizations that support classical liberal ideals, liberty, rule of law and free speech. Values that are currently under threat in Canada from left-leaning institutions that have frankly lost their way. A happy byproduct of this search has been the discovery of some excellent podcasts which have made my…
