PEREGRINE PULP

We may have reached peak nonsense; that, or I'm suffering a catastrophic stroke. Today I awoke and the first two things I read were from...

Folks of all temperaments and occupations keenly share their belief that the Information Age is uniquely foolhardy and strident. They...

After America's most recent and notable mass shooting, Heather Cox Richardson , professor of nineteenth-century American history at...

I've been writing about this for twenty years and it's as excruciatingly tiresome as it is bleak, like watching a slow motion immolation....

Perhaps the most important lessons I learned in university were not part of any curriculum or found in an assigned reading. They also...

This is a list of films I'd like you to watch. Some of these will blow your mind or lift your spirit; some are more like a pleasant...

Go listen to episode five of The Trojan Horse Affair podcast; or even just episode five, titled A Study in Scarlett . This is some of...

What is up with this attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) fad sweeping North America? Are you also seeing this everywhere you turn? My attention was drawn to the topic when within the span of a few weeks the most competent and productive middle-aged professional women I know simultaneously declared their status as proud members of the attention deficit community. (Me: “Wait, what? ! ”) And, of course, now that I’ve sought out more information, I’m clearly caught in

I’m politically, epidemiologically, and personally opposed to effectively everything even tangentially related to the Ottawa convoy and...

I’m not in Ottawa and have no idea what happened or is happening with this 'trucker convoy' thing. I don't know who’s involved or not,...

What is going on with the water situation in this country? For more than ten years now I’ve been hearing about serious drinking and...

[A SOCIALLY DISTANCED PANDEMIC PUB QUIZ] 1) COVID-19 will: A) Soon be forgotten B) Decide to disregard natural and anthropogenic...

Someone shared with me an article by a senior lecturer in sociology from Lund University, Roland Paulsen . Therein Paulsen offers a...

Acquaintances of mine share video after video, post after post, and slogan after slogan that, as far as I’m able to discern, rewrite all...

Editorials and Twitter threads have arrived weekly on the issue of global vaccine equity. They’re easy to find. Every major news source...

As I’ve said all pandemic, I’m in support of very strict, even unpleasant, public health measures for combating COVID. But such measures...

In one of our final courses we were asked for an analysis and reflection of major course projects and themes. Here was mine: The Local...