They have a much higher idiot factor than women do, especially when young. This fundamental difference between the sexes will never be eradicated no matter how hard we try. (Although try we must.) Margaret Wente The Globe and Mail The idiot hypothesis is scarcely original to me. It has occurred to most serious scholars of…
Margaret Wente Globe and Mail Au Québec, pas l’ombre d’une idée; les journalistes ne posent pas la question et les maires ne disent rien et refilent la facture aux citoyens. Pendant les négociations, les pompiers s’abritent sous la feuille de vigne ” Nous ne négocions pas sur la place publique”. Thorold is a middle-class town…
Margaret Wente The Globe and Mail If you want to put a tax on greenhouse gas emissions, there’s an easy way to do it. You implement a carbon tax, like British Columbia did, and add it to the price of gasoline and other fossil fuels. The higher the emissions, the more tax people pay. Anyone…
Margaret Wente The Globe and Mail The other night, my husband and I settled down to watch a terrific new drama series, The Honourable Woman, on the CBC. After an excruciatingly painful hour, we gave up. I haven’t watched a broadcast network in a while, and I was astonished by the gigantic number of commercials….
Margaret Wente Globe and Mail Women often say they’re not the best person to be on a show. Men don’t say that. Women feel they can’t present themselves as experts unless they have total mastery of the subject. Men just assume they have mastery, even when they don’t. Men have more confidence and are more…