every morning when I wake up and look to my left:

I wrote a response to JS at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. You can read it here: biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/09/f...

As an aside, I really hate the Canada is/can be a beacon of freedom frame that explicitly masks its own settler colonial history but also its ongoing complicity as a feeder state to the imperial core

He probably thinks “American Woman” was about a bad one night stand in Sheboygan. Probably never heard the one about LBJ ripping Lester Pearson a new one for “pissing on my carpet” by making an anti-Vietnam War speech in Philly. Is unaware of the hackneyed phrase “elbows up” that got a PM elected.

Fewer patronizing Yale-refugee philosophy professors proposing Canadian-nationalism as a response to US-imperialism. More international, worker-led labour movements. More striking workers as philosophers (a la Bob White.) And a lesson in Canadian labour history for Dr. Jason Stanley.