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White Women Can Run
There’s no diversity casting when it comes to athletics. You are either fast enough or you’re not. So it is with the remarkable Amy Hunt, who won four gold medals last week at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham. As such, she is the first athlete to win four gold medals at a European Championship.
The death of shame is destroying America
One of the strangest changes I’ve witnessed over the past twenty years has almost gone unnoticed.
There was a time when public embarrassment carried real weight. If a politician lied, a CEO abused his office, a pastor betrayed his congregation, or a public figure disgraced himself, shame served a social purpose. It wasn’t always pleasant, but it reminded us that character mattered.
Yoni Goldstein: Postmodernism is coming to a natural end
There is no specific date on which to pin the advent of the postmodern age. The term was coined in reference to painting in 1870, and first cited as a descriptor for contemporary social and cultural thought in 1939. In 1960, the sociologist Daniel Bell published “The End of Ideology,” heralding a “post-industrial society” and laying the groundwork for postmodern thought as a guiding light in academia. Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault followed from the mid-’60s, cementing the philosophical base for postmodernism and popular derivatives like Edward Said’s postcolonial theory.
‘Generation of moderation’ no more: Gen Zers drink as much as the rest of society, report shows
Gen Z isn’t the teetotalling generation after all, according to new data. They just took some time to catch up to the rest of the drinking population, and their influence is reshaping the alcohol industry.
As a larger proportion of gen Zers reaches legal drinking age, the gap between them and drinkers at large “appears to have almost completely disappeared.” The report from IWSR, a leading alcohol data provider, dispels the myth that younger people imbibe less.
Gardening with Occam …
Pouring cats and dogs today. Great for the Garden! @fancypants_s https://t.co/XgxIOgUSQW
— Occam's Razor (@Occams_Razor_CA) July 21, 2026
Douglas Todd: Faster, higher — kids gain from exciting, risky play
Drownings are in the news in B.C. this year because they’ve increased almost 50 per cent from the same point last year, according to the Lifesaving Society of B.C. So far 32 people have drowned.
The upsetting trend makes it a hard time to extol the virtues of the outdoors, especially when it comes to young people.
The era of ‘civilization-states’ is here. It’s up to the world’s middle powers to respond
Beware when the world’s most powerful leaders talk of “civilization.” Their abuse of the term could spawn a new international order.
Russia is “an original civilization-state,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a prominent annual forum in Sochi in 2023, adding that “the world is on its way to a synergy of civilization-states.” The same year, Xi Jinping called China “the only great, uninterrupted civilization that continues to this day in a state form.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi describes his own state as “the most refined idea of human civilization.”