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[ad_1] A judge ruled that the Quebec provincial government, as well as former Minister of Tourism Caroline Proulx, broke the law when they canceled a Christian group’s planned event at a public convention center in 2023. Harvest Ministries International had booked the Quebec City Convention Centre for a 10-day faith event, but Proulx ordered the contract canceled because the group opposes abortion. The judge said this violated their freedom of expression, as the government cannot block a group from using public facilities just because it disagrees with their message. The government and the convention center must pay the ministry $30,636.92…
[ad_1] Photo by Francesco Alberti Last fall, Pope Leo made an address in which he stated that “[t]he phenomenon of usury points to the corruption of the human heart,” condemning the practice as bringing crisis to families and enslaving the poor and powerless. Though it is almost never discussed today by those who comment on matters public and political (they are afraid to offend their captors), usury is among the defining features of our entire social, political and economic system. Recent court cases have put a spotlight on usury and state laws meant to combat it. Earlier this month, for…
[ad_1] Photo by JF Martin For more than six decades, the United States has attempted to make the Cuban people pay for their decision to pursue an independent, socialist path. The latest phase of this economic war has targeted the island’s most vulnerable artery: its energy supply. Six months after Washington intensified pressure on countries and companies supplying oil to Cuba, the policy has not produced democracy or improved the lives of ordinary Cubans. It has produced darker homes, immobilised buses, interrupted hospitals, and greater difficulty in moving food from farms to cities. The immediate task is to prevent a…
[ad_1] To describe often requires that we generalize, as when speaking of ‘Venetian painting’, we identify common features of the very varied artworks from Venice, indicating the common qualities of Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione and Tiepolo, And more grandly, we generalize when we talk about ‘art’ to refer to artworks made anywhere, anytime. A treatise on aesthetic theory often presents a definition of art. Philosophers are especially interested in Marcel Duchamp’s readymades, some of Jeff Koons’ works, and Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box because they challenge older definitions of art. A book devoted to Venetian painting is organized very differently. It describes…
[ad_1] Politics The Illusion of Law Judges will not save our republic. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Law is power with lipstick. Contra Chief Justice John Roberts, judges are not really umpires calling balls and strikes. The rules and precedents they must interpret are too diffuse and contradictory; choosing which to prioritize or rely upon is a bit like looking out over a crowd and picking your friends. Decisions of the United States Supreme Court are better understood as corroborative. Majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions alike are the product of subjective reasoning, often telling us more about the priorities and…
[ad_1] Tamara Jachym says Trump’s National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., is working after her son Eric Tarpinian-Jachym was fatally shot in 2025. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Two men, one word. Next Monday, at Kingston Crown Court in London, a 72-year-old grandfather goes on trial for terrorism; the evidence is a tweet of seven words, and the maximum sentence is 14 years. Nine months ago, a man who founded al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch and carried a $10 million American bounty on his head became the first Syrian head of state ever received at the White House. Tony Greenstein and Ahmed al-Sharaa have never met. Between them they define what the word “terrorist” now means – and for American readers there is a further twist: the seven words…
[ad_1] The Trump administration’s Latin America policies are too simplistic for the complicated problems facing the region, a panel of restraint-oriented foreign policy experts concluded Tuesday. The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft gathered Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, co-director of the Corruption, Networks, and Transnational Crime Research Center (CONTRA) at George Mason University, Isabel Pereira Arana, senior coordinator for drug policy at the Center for Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia), and Lee Schlenker, research associate in the Quincy Institute’s Global South program, for a forum on the Trump administration’s policy toward crime and narcotics in Latin America. The panelists discussed potential issues with…
[ad_1] “Trump will not reach an agreement with us. We will put up with him until his term ends.” That recent quote was from Majid Shakeri, an advisor to Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Tehran is signaling that it is not waiting for a better offer. It is waiting for January 20, 2029. While that posture is understandable, Iran may find that such a policy comes with unexpected downsides as other regional actors figure out their own relations with Iran. Shakeri’s quote and the broader signaling by Iran are hardly surprising. They confirms what many, including The American Conservative’s…
[ad_1] Minnesota Senate Race Could Ruin Democrats' Plans [ad_2] Source link