In The Critic, Emma Webb interviews a Pakistani couple acquitted of “blasphemy” – i.e., insulting Islam – but still forced to flee their home country. Webb’s daring account chronicles the underreported attacks on Christians in multiple countries outside the Western world, where religious strictures threaten not only free speech and social choices but life itself.
Javier Milei Shows how it’s Done
The “chainsaw” taken by Argentina’s new-ish president, Javier Milei, to his battered nation’s bloated bureaucracy, catastrophic finances and – perhaps most important – failed leftist governing dogmas has worked magic. As David Harsanyi notes in Jewish World Review, Argentina’s public service has shrunk by tens of thousands, the budget is nearly in balance, inflation has plunged, trade is reviving and wages are inching up. The lessons for Canada and the U.S. are clear.