It’s not just the U.S. that attributes the pandemic to Beijing’s malfeasance. Australia, France, and Britain have all condemned the Communist regime for covering up the coronavirus threat. Not Canada. Writing in The American Conservative, Nico Johnson argues that Justin Trudeau’s politically expedient handling of China erodes the democratic institutions he was elected to protect.

When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours
John R. Grove commemorates the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with a moving meditation on Gordon Lightfoot’s song memorializing the disaster and its 29 forever-lost victims. Lightfoot’s poetry and melody in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only hauntingly convey the tragedy’s essential elements but, Grove writes in Law & Liberty, open a window to the sublime.


