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  • Contents
  • David Rand’s Personal Blog
  • Comprendre le « wokisme » à l’ère du MAGA
  • Les trois innocentes
  • Understanding “Wokism” in a Time of MAGA
  • Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity
  • Orientation sexuelle et identité de genre
  • L’empire « woke » contre-attaque
  • Bouazzi ne lutte pas contre le racisme
  • Le conformisme lassant de Toula Drimonis
  • Les critiques de la cérémonie d’ouverture des Jeux Olympiques se trompent de cible
  • The Tedious Conformism of Toula Drimonis
  • Letter to Free Inquiry about US Constitution
  • Is “Punch-A-Nazi” Still Fashionable?
  • Political Neutrality versus Religious Neutrality
  • La couleur de sa chemise
  • Ideological Capture
  • Another Antisecular Screed
  • A Pandemic of Cowardice
  • Racism, Neoracism and Antiracism
  • Racisme, néoracisme et antiracisme
  • The Fall of Minneapolis: A Dishonest Documentary
  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Conversion: An Act of Desperation
  • The George Floyd Case
  • The Long March of Emotional Blackmail
  • The Grotesque Naïveté of the “Woke”
  • Quatorze observations à propos de la post-gauche
  • Exaggerating Historical Injustices
  • On Trans Extremism
  • Sur l’extrémisme trans
  • Burden of Proof
  • Trudeau Appoints Anti-Québécois Racist to Combat so-called ‘Islamophobia’
  • Fourteen Observations about Post-Leftism
  • Bias in 2021 Election Leaders’ Debate
  • La vraie nature de la BCHA
  • Pauline Marois: 2022 International Secularism Prize
  • Pauline Marois : Prix international de la laïcité 2022
  • “Wokism” is Not a Moral Panic
  • Le « wokisme » n’est pas une panique morale
  • Stillbirth, The Failure of Secularism in the English-Speaking World
  • The CRTC, Pierre Vallières and Postmodernism
  • Flawed Constitutions
  • The Great Canadian Euphemism
  • The Dogmatism of the Post-Left
  • The Patriots of Lower Canada
  • Repeal Citizenship Regulation 17.1.b
  • Religious Symbol & Face-Covering Bans in Other Countries
  • Inapte à être juge
  • Unworthy To Be a Judge
  • Bill 21 as Seen by Four Quebec Secularists
  • English Canada’s Messiah Complex
  • La Loi 21 pour les nuls
  • Quebec Bill 21 for Dummies
  • The Bullshitization of the Term “Systemic”
  • Parution du livre Identité, « race », liberté d’expression.
  • What the “Woke” and the Political Right Have in Common
  • The Incompetence of Shachi Kurl
  • The “Woke” are Not the Political Left
  • The Necessity of Quebec Bill 21
  • La nécessité de la Loi 21
  • The “White Supremacism” Scam
  • The Swiss Face-Covering Ban is About Deterring Religious Fanaticism
  • Passive Proselytism
  • Le prosélytisme passif
  • Les « Woke » ne sont pas de gauche
  • Lettre aux médias pour dénoncer le Conseil québécois LGBT
  • Racialism versus Secularism
  • L’ineptie d’Émile Bilodeau
  • Le Conseil québécois LGBT refuse mon adhésion
  • How the Woke Broke Secularism
  • Secularism Betrayed: 2020 Version
  • AAI’s John Richards Interviews David Rand about Quebec Bill 21
  • Intersectionality: The Death of Feminism and of Anti-Racism
  • À l’intersection de l’intersectionnalité et de l’islamogauchisme
  • 5e anniversaire de l’attentat contre Charlie Hebdo
  • Please Remove Your MAGA Hat at Work
  • Quebec Court of Appeal Ruling, 2019-12-12
  • Décision de la Cour d’appel du Québec, 2019-12-12
  • Three Examples of Cultural (Mis)Appropriation
  • Ontario NDP: Still Crazy After All These Years
  • Immigration, the Great Unmentionable
  • L’immigration, cette question intouchable
  • English Canada Continues its Hysterical Opposition to Quebec Bill 21
  • Two Questions About Bill 21
  • Sometimes Makeup Is Just Makeup
  • There is Nothing Friendly About Hemant Mehta’s Gross Ignorance
  • Another Notch Lower for Canada
  • This Does NOT Promote Child Health
  • Summary: The Islamist Veil
  • Le juge Yergeau reconnaît que la Loi sur la laïcité ne fomente pas la haine
  • A Reading List on Quebec Bill 21
  • Le crucifix enfin retiré !
  • Quebec Formally Declares State Secularism
  • Le Québec est laïque !
  • Quebec Bill 21 Causes Earthquakes, Anal Warts and the Collapse of Civilisation
  • Six Pseudo-Arguments of Antisecularists
  • CFI Canada Rejects Secularism—Again
  • For Secularism in Hospitals
  • Plaidoyer pour la laïcité dans les hôpitaux
  • Children’s Rights Before Teachers’
  • CHRC Endorses Religious Child Abuse
  • La CCDP endosse la maltraitance religieuse des fillettes
  • The American Model of “Secularism” is 18th Century Pre-secularism
  • The US Constitution is Not Secular
  • The CAQ’s Secularism Bill is a Positive Step Forward
  • Tobacco, Politics and Religion
  • Quebec’s Draft Bill 21 Implements State Secularism
  • An Open Letter to the Council of Canadians
  • Three Strategies of Islamists
  • Support #NoHijabDay #FreeFromHijab
  • Sinéad O’Connor: A Metaphor for the Degeneration of the Left
  • Fourth Anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
  • Open Letter to TheConversation: An Organ of Anti-Quebec Propaganda
  • Canada’s Anti-Blasphemy Law Repealed, But M-103 Remains
  • My Favourite Graph
  • The Dishonesty of the Globe and Mail
  • The Moral and Intellectual Bankruptcy of Antisecularists
  • The Quebec Election, Oct. 1st 2018
  • Ensaf Haidar Challenges Canadian Orthodoxy
  • Les extrêmes se touchent
  • Quebec-Bashing: Three Recent Examples
  • The Greatest of All Vices
  • The Identitarian Left
  • Banning Face-Coverings is Both Necessary and Beneficial
  • In Praise of Cultural Appropriation
  • Banning Religious Symbols: When & Where?
  • Laïcité, législation et gouvernement au Québec
  • Screw the Monarchy!
    Vivent les patriotes !
  • Fairweather Secularists
  • David Silverman’s Firebrand Atheism
  • Status of Women Canada Endorses Political Islam
  • Religious Symbols and the Montreal Police
  • Notes on the Regressive Left, Part V
  • Notes on the Regressive Left, Part IV
  • Notes on the Regressive Left, Part III
  • Notes on the Regressive Left, Part II
  • Quebec’s Right to Self-Determination
  • Pride & Shame in Toronto & London
  • Notes sur le racisme, IIe partie
  • Notes on Racism, Part I
  • Notes on the Regressive Left, Part I
  • Notes on the Islamist Veil
  • “Islamophobia”: a weapon against reforming Islam
  • Rules for a Discussion about Religion
  • The Undauntable Fatima!
  • Islam and Islamism
  • Exploiting Mass Murder for Political Gain
  • Charles Taylor est-il compromis avec le Prix Templeton ?
  • The Quebec City Attack: Some Context
  • Fools Against “Islamophobia”
  • More Dubious Words
  • Carl Sagan’s Achilles’ Heel
  • Anti-Muslim Incidents in the USA
  • Multiculturalism, Orientalism and Exoticism
  • False Memes from the Burkini Wars
  • Challenges for Canadian Secularists
  • The Acquired-Innate Spectrum
  • Aphorisms about “Islamophobia” and “Racism”
  • Of Pigs and Prayer
  • The Extended Weinberg Principle
  • Dubious Words
  • Words to Cultivate
  • Apostasy is a Human Right
  • Freedom of Religion is Not Fundamental
  • Toronto Life Magazine Lionizes Islamist Agent
  • The Cult of Impotence
  • Hate Quebec, Hate Secularism
  • Secularism: Lockean and Republican
  • Secularists Have Nothing to Celebrate
  • How to Reassure a Concerned Citizenry … and how NOT to
  • Trudeau & Mulcair Can Easily Resolve the Niqab Issue
  • Thoughts on the Niqab
  • Secularism Versus the Multicultis
  • The Myth of Religious Obligations
  • Secularism Betrayed, Epilogue and Update
  • Secularism Betrayed, Part III
  • Secularism Betrayed, Part II
  • Secularism Betrayed, Part I
  • Introduction

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Stillbirth, The Failure of Secularism in the English-Speaking World

2022-09-25

I am pleased to announce that my book “Stillbirth, The Failure of Secularism in the English-Speaking World” is now available in both eBook version and paperback version.

Further information: Stillbirth

Stillbirth, The Failure of Secularism in the English-Speaking World


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