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Back to SearchEP 128: How Having A Family Got So Hard
Canada recently reached a grim milestone — the lowest fertility rate in recorded history. We are now well below population replacement, at 1.33 birth…
2 years, 5 months ago
EP 127: Will The Media Change Course?
On the Lean Out podcast, we’ve spent much of the past year investigating the collapse of the news media and the decline in public trust. Tara's guest…
2 years, 5 months ago
EP 126: Canada's Pandemic Response - More Harm Than Good?
In March of 2020, much of the world was in lockdown. The unprecedented pandemic response closed schools, shuttered businesses, and paused public even…
2 years, 6 months ago
EP 125: A Defence of Colourblindness
When it comes to race relations, many of us were raised with the ethos expressed in the famed Martin Luther King Jr. quote calling on society to judg…
2 years, 6 months ago
EP 124: Why Marshall McLuhan (Still) Matters
Canada is embroiled in a number of high-profile political scandals, and it’s a dispiriting moment for the country. This week, we’re taking a break fr…
2 years, 6 months ago
EP 123: Why Dismissing the Importance of Family is the Ultimate Luxury Belief
It’s not unusual for well-heeled people to try to imagine what it might be like to grow up without money. But my guest on today’s program says it is …
2 years, 6 months ago
EP 122: How To Save Local News
We hear a lot of grim predictions about the future of local news, both in the United States and in Canada. But my guests on today’s program are feeli…
2 years, 7 months ago
EP 121: The Case For Marriage
On the Lean Out podcast, we’ve talked a lot about plummeting birth rates in the West, about high rates of unhappiness among modern women, about the l…
2 years, 7 months ago
EP 120: Why You Should Never Apologize to the Mob
What does it take to speak out against orthodoxies in an age of outrage? This is something that our guest on today’s program has spent years contempl…
2 years, 7 months ago
EP 119: The Federal Court's Rebuke
Canada has, once again, made international headlines. The Federal Court has ruled the government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, in response to …
2 years, 7 months ago