The New-Age Racists
I contrast overt racial prejudice with the subtler condescension of those who deny cultural problems and assume minorities cannot succeed without special treatment.
I contrast overt racial prejudice with the subtler condescension of those who deny cultural problems and assume minorities cannot succeed without special treatment.
I examine the Council of Canadians’ campaigns against trade and corporate power, questioning their evidence, moral assumptions, and claim to represent civil society.
In this Marketing Mastermind article, I examine corporate social responsibility and the distance between what businesses preach and how they actually behave.
Drawing on my experiences in Lithuania before and after the Soviet collapse, I examine its transformation and the moral case for capitalism.
I examine affirmative action, political correctness, and the assumption that discrimination qualifies as racism only when its victim is non-white.
In this Marketing Mastermind article, I argue that genuine branding must arise from honest products, customer education, organisational values, and real value creation.
I examine how some immigrants criticise Canada while idealising the countries they chose to leave, focusing on university tuition and public education.
Writing after the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai, I examine the contradictions of anti-globalisation activism and why it offers little to India’s poor.
You may expect me to provide a moral argument for not voting, or to say that the right to vote includes the right not to vote. Perhaps you expect me to repeat the familiar claim…
In this July 2003 report, I examine activist pressure groups, their hostility toward markets and profit, and the difference between genuine freedom and political pressure disguised as public interest.