Category: Columnists
Dyer: A small victory in the fight against female genital mutilation
The defeat in The Gambia of a proposal to legalize female circumcision still leaves it widespread, at odds with religion, Gwynne Dyer argues
Willoughby: Inconvenience a better choice than easy alcohol
The government doesn’t have enough money for education, health care, and many other social services, but it’s willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make alcohol more convenient.
Pearson: Art brings us together at critical times
Exhibitions and art events, whatever the size or venue, encourage dialogue, social contact, and economy. More importantly, they foster a sense of belonging.
Dyer: Trump neither unique nor irreplaceable
Almost everybody who feels obliged to comment about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is insisting that ‘violence has no place in American politics’, but of course it has
Dyer: Pragmatism, not pity, should guide Democrats as Joe Biden flounders
It really doesnât matter whether Joe Biden is in peak condition intellectually during a second term as president. He did some useful things in his first term, but his main job now is to stop Donald Trump from coming back. If he succeeded in doing that and went gaga immediately afterwards, the ship of state […]