Blogging’s Secret Sauce

This may or may not be part of the “secret sauce” in Gabe’s memeorandum.com, but I think Stowe Boyd is onto something. In a post about what makes blogs work — i.e., what makes them vibrant and helps them grow, as opposed to stagnating or becoming echo chambers — he says that he thinks it [...]

Getting things Right

On the child-care issue of the last campaign, which may be a defining one of the new government too, Harper has effectively lifted some of the most hallowed tenets of Trudeau Liberalism — individualism and choice — and claimed them as his own.

Harper sold his $1,200-a-year plan to parents as a citizen-empowering measure: Moms and [...]

Betty Friedan is dead

There are very few writers or thinkers who can be said to have entirely changed the way a culture thinks of itself: for better or worse, Betty Friedan was one of them.

Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique. made it possible for women to move beyond the 50’s housewife model. There will be a fair bit [...]