Look: bad people do bad things. True in politics, true in real life. In politics, being bad or doing bad things isn’t always fatal. Bad people sometimes win. Donald Trump, Richard Nixon et al. It happens. But people who are good - or who claim to be good - shrugging about a bad person doing bad things in politics? That shouldn’t happen. Justin Trudeau, for example. He wore racist blackface and was alleged by a woman to have groped her. He hid both until they leaked out. For m

Today is her birthday. She led a long and good life, yes, and I believe – per my faith – she is with my Dad now, the love of her life. Yes. But I still so miss her, miss them, every single day. People will tell you it gets easier, with the passage of time. But they’re not telling you the truth. It mostly doesn’t. She was an artist and a creator and the best mother you could possibly imagine. As Moms go, she was without equal. Her absence leaves a hole in the sky and in every

Canada and America both had birthdays this week. Theirs was more consequential. Not, however, in the way that birthdays are supposed to be: not with lots of joy and singing and celebrations of achievement. America alights in its 250th year with none of that, really. No discernible joy, no proper celebrations, no singing by anyone you would ever want to hear. Uncharitable as it may sound, America slides into its 250th year like a dead and decomposing whale on a remote beach s

I don't quite understand how these things are calculated, but I'll take it. After two months and a bit, The Hidden Hand is still a number one bestseller on a couple Amazon lists, and in the top ten on another. (Now in its second printing, too.) Don't get it, but very grateful to all of you who have picked it up. And, like I say, I'm not complaining.

What is it to be a Canadian? Perhaps the best way to answer that is to describe what isn’t Canadian. What is unwelcome here. On the day after Canada Day, we know this: we know that Canada is not a place to come to with hate in one’s heart. It’s not a place to bring bigoted creeds from afar - beliefs that cause division and discord. Canada is not a place where lawlessness is favoured or desired. It is not a place where the rule of law should be ignored without consequence. Ca

...by Chris Reed, here. "Shrewd...Kinsella is keenly alert to the strange convergence of the far right and radical left, which share a rhetoric that denies Jewish legitimacy. The Hidden Hand traces how the nation’s demographics, vulnerability to foreign interference, institutional weakness and political reluctance have left it badly exposed. A country that prides itself on pluralism, Kinsella argues, has become disturbingly susceptible to anti-Jewish intimidation and foreign

Heading West out of Jerusalem. New one. (For Lee.)

Israel National News, has reviewed The Hidden Hand, and called it "excellent...admirably detailed and fact-based...presented in a clear, straightforward and highly readable style." Not bad! Review here.