Author Archive | Jim Lindgren

I’ve been going through the Federal Canadian Human Rights Statute and the regulations under it, as they might apply to a complaint against Maclean’s. 1. Time Limitation on Actions. Section 41 provides a one-year limitation for filing complaints, though it seems to be a very soft restriction: the Commission shall deal with any complaint . […]

The U.S. Department of State reports on human rights activities in foreign countries, including Canada. The March 6, 2007 report on Canada is quite matter-of-fact in disclosing limits on freedom of speech: Freedom of Speech and Press . . . The Supreme Court has ruled that the government may limit free speech in the name […]

The Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) has filed human rights complaints against Maclean’s for publishing an excerpt from Mark Steyn’s America Alone. The lawyer who filed the complaint, Faisal Joseph, explained his motivations: “Muslims in this country are getting tired of this,” said Joseph, who is representing the congress [CIC]. “What we’ve noticed since Sept. 11 […]

In what could become the most important free-speech in Canada in decades, a group of current and recent law students from Osgoode Hall have spearheaded an attack on 19 magazine articles and columns critical of radical Islam (and in some cases, of moderate Islam as well) that were published in Maclean’s, Canada’s leading news weekly. […]

It’s “Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day” on Saturday, Dec. 8. Here are some suggestions to celebrate the traditional holiday: Remember, dystopian future travelers are very startled that they’ve gone back in time. Some starters: – If you go the “prisoner who’s escaped the future” try shaving your head and putting a barcode on […]

I would like to thank Eugene again for inviting me to guest-blog and the readers who have provided thoughtful comments. In these posts, I have touched upon some of the problems created by sexual integration of combat forces. There are many others that I cover in my book, including the tendency of men to protect […]

In my last post, I said that my next post would be my concluding one. However, I thought that it might be worthwhile separately addressing a few recurring points from the comments. THE RACE ANALOGY: Several commenters suggested that the arguments made in my posts are illegitimate if they would be unacceptable if

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Many of the issues raised in the comments were thoroughly explored in the give-and-take there, so I will respond only to a few comments. Several comments dealt with the issue of endurance, and it is an important one. One commenter cited a study purporting to show a female advantage at ultra-long distances. I do not […]

I appreciate the many thoughtful and enlightening comments to my earlier post. Many of the issues raised are matters I am writing about in this post or in subsequent ones. Advocates of integration of women into combat forces often downplay the sex difference in physical capacity, correctly pointing out that some women are stronger than […]

Many thanks to Eugene for inviting me to guest-blog about my new book Co-ed Combat (Sentinel (Penguin USA)). Today, I am going to provide an overview of the book, and subsequent entries will discuss specific issues in greater depth. I obviously cannot cover all of the issues raised in my book, but many that I […]

On Thanksgiving, I thought I would link to two posts from earlier years on the 1621 Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims’ attitudes toward food in the New World. In 2004, I posted an account of the Massachusetts Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving in 1621. We set the last spring some twenty acres of Indian corn, and sowed some […]

Sotheby’s rebounded from its disappointing Impressionist auction with a smashing auction of more recent works: LED by a record-breaking Jeff Koons sculpture and a $US46 million Francis Bacon canvas, Sotheby’s has roared back from a dismal Impressionist sale to score the highest total in its history at a contemporary and postwar art auction. Bacon’s Second […]

Some are wondering whether the art market has peaked after a weak night at auction last night: High-profile impressionist paintings failed to sell at auction at Sotheby’s in New York prompting fears that art’s dizzy boom could be nearing an end. Works by Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Pierre-Auguste Renoir went unsold at Sotheby’s […]

For a National Public Radio segment on term limits for Supreme Court justices this week, I was interviewed by Margot Adler of NPR’s Justice Talking. My segment is available online at the website for the show. The interview focused mostly on mental and physical decrepitude. The staff of Justice Talking did a terrific job of […]