seanessay.com Would I give up a year or two of my life, or ask a young man to do so, for the cause of freedom? Right now there are nations in Europe, not all of them in NATO, that enforce a year or two of conscription, what Americans loosely call “the draft.” I can see […]
New Century, Same Stupidity
seanessay.com I see that inflation, under Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has suddenly become as bad as back when his father, Pierre Eliot Trudeau, was the PM in 1983. (He was PM from 1968-79, and 1980-84) What makes my middle age a pain, Is seeing stupidity come round again. It was during the fall of […]
Abortion From Canada, With Love
seanessay.com (The Supreme Court case was in Mississippi) Needless to say, it’s not politically correct, while I’m up here in Canada, to comment on US abortion down there. As you know, yesterday, by appealing to the US Constitution, abortion was “returned to the (individual) states.” Up here, the most I might do is parrot Barak […]
Sanctions and Controversy
seanessay.com Today western powers still can’t supply Ukraine—will they ever?—with enough artillery, while Russia is still slowly advancing, towns are still falling. This while sanctions, both in the 20th century and against Russia today, are still controversial. In our sanctions, should we “draw a line” to protect the innocent? There may be controversy over whether […]
Race in London, Repair and Remorse
seanessay.com This morning I was walking in London, once a city of commerce from slave trading. I won’t ask anyone, including me, to feel “white guilt.” There exists, to keep society healthy, a boundary called “the statute of limitations.” At the same time, as my favourite essayist noted, “Every healthy society must demand a little […]
Enjoying Imperialism Like Everybody Else
seanessay.com (over 1,000 words) Still in London, Where the museums of history and art are now explicitly non-racist and non-colonial For you and I, culture persists, AND, culture-wise, we individuals have free will. I’m thinking of imperialism and “male socio-economic class”-ism.” In a long ago college English class, when we took Earnest Hemingway, I said, […]