You should make a Canadian show

Academy of Dunces: A Decade of Campus Censorship Podcast Episode · CANADALAND · April 20 · 33m

Spoke with Ric Bienstock about her new @CBC documentary "Speechless" for @CANADALAND. Has the progressive left eaten itself? Will we ever be sane again? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Kétharmados többsége lesz a választáson győztes Tisza Pártnak az országgyűlésben YouTube video by M1 - Híradó

Anyone who is interested in what comes after populism, what has to come after populism, turn this to auto-translate and just watch. The new Hungarian leader basically fires the stooges on live television.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NBe...

One of the craziest images of all time. I mean, an image that calls out for the 25th amendment.

Gloves Off is up for Best Limited Series, alongside some incredible company. @thewebbyawards Now it’s up to the public vote. If the show resonated with you, cast your vote: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Yesterday I had the great pleasure of doing an author visit to the Warkworth prison book club. Easily the most informed, thoughtful and considered discussion of The Next Civil War I have had with any book club. Insert joke about captive audience here.

The End of America in a single question.

The 18th @shortyawards' Audience Honor Voting ends tomorrow. Gloves Off is Nominated for best News & Politics Podcast. Cast your vote here: shortyawards.com/vote/

Crossword puzzle fans: Do you think a clue with the solution "psittacine" is proper? I thought the deal was that crossword solutions, even if technical, would be accessible to a generally educated person. "Psittacine" (of the parrot family) seems over the line to me. Thoughts?

Very much yes

It's been a long journey.

It accesses chance and eternity in a way no human could.

infiniteprayer.com

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’t

I wrote about the task of the writer in the age of AI. Cue the outrage.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Season 2 coming this summer

Gloves Off got nominated for a Webby (twice actually). I'm informed by people who know that we're up against the Obamas and therefore have no chance, but still...

You might find this interesting: infiniteprayer.com

This week I am off to Sweden for the launch of my AI art project, "An Infinite Prayer for Peace." (More on that later.)

Lovely to see The New York Times shout out the work before it launches.

One thing that's been pretty definitively established over the past quarter century of Middle Eastern history is that, once you kill the bad guys, everything works itself out.

I guess it's too much to ask for wars to have a purpose anymore.

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

This @wsj.com story about Americans leaving is bonkers. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

That curling game was epic. Didn't think I would ever write those words, but here we are.

This is the point we made in Gloves Off: If you are making a deal with the United States now, what are you making a deal with?

#1314 Jay Baruchel's CanCon Manifesto “ If you think the world is better with Canada in it then you have to accept that certain things have to happen for that to continue.” -Jay Baruchel

I interviewed Jay Baruchel for @CANADALAND and it's up today. We could have talked about all the famous movies he's been in. Instead we talked about post-WWI Canadian film distribution policy, which is actually fascinating. We both confess to Monarchism, too.
www.canadaland.com/podcast/1314...

Excellent podcast—well worth a watch—with Dr. Janice Stein, @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social and @stephenmarche.bsky.social.
Thoughtful, substantive conversation that cuts through the noise.

How Canada Survives the “Time of Monsters” | World on Edge YouTube video by The Paikin Podcast

Important conversation on Steve Paikin's show between me and Janice Stein. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsms...

We Should All Be Canadians (Un’altra America è possibile) A nord del confine con gli Usa di Trump c’è un Paese che, grazie al suo inatteso soft power, si propone come “faro in un mondo alla deriva”

Even the Italians think we're cool now. I loved talking to La Repubblica about Canada's cultural moment. d.repubblica.it/culture/2026...

Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage The world is angry. Canada’s been there all along.

“For better or for worse, what people most admire in Canada, certainly more than success, is the capacity to endure,” Stephen Marche writes. “What liberal democracies need now, more than ever, is the sheer will to go on, without nostalgia for what once was.”

These drone shots make it abundantly clear that downhill skiing is an utterly insane human activity.

Text from NYT Op-ed: At the same time, America is becoming synonymous with dangerous randomness. The constitutional system is in collapse. The legislative branch, made up of both Democrats and Republicans, is missing in action. The Supreme Court debates the legal equivalent of how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, while the legal order that has held the country together for 250 years sputters toward an ignominious end. Nobody knows what America is anymore — not Americans, not their enemies, not their friends. Coming to terms with this reality has not been easy in Canada. American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug; it’s hard to break the habit of thinking of Americans as the good guys. For Canadians, what is unfolding in Minnesota and elsewhere is happening to our friends, our neighbors, our colleagues, our kin — it is happening to people we love and understand better than anybody. But “the rupture,” as Mr. Carney calls it, is nothing more than seeing clearly. Today, it’s America that poses a threat to our freedom and democracy. Not China. Not Russia. America.

From writer @stephenmarche.bsky.social, proud Canadian, on what the current despot rule of the US has meant for Canada and the world.

(Also note his nomenclature for the US.)

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...