The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality. MacKinnonโs unrealistic fulminations against a phantom patriarchy exist in the arid arena of pure thought.
Ilana MercerThe free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.
Ilana MercerDemonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.
Ilana MercerLike or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Ilana MercerAny opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.
Ilana MercerQuotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.
Ilana Mercer