The Affairs of Government

A supervised injection site in Montreal, Canada, called CACTUS Montreal. Sites like these have been argued to encourage drug use by addicts, but the evidence is flimsy. These days it’s easy to find someone who believes in the supposed benefits marijuana provides for pain, municipal income, or even curing diseases. But the buck often stops there. What’s much rarer is to find someone extolling the usage of harder drugs like cocaine, ecstasy, or heroin. The latter’s effects on the user have been etched into the collective mind. But just because these drugs are definitively harmful, how do we help those who are already addicted? One such proposal has come under fire due to its seemingly absurdist logic: helping those addicted by providing safe spaces to consume drugs. The blog piece entitled “‘Let me inject heroin in a safe place, it’s my citizen right’” by Arnelious Dominich illustrates some arguments against such an idea. But is it actually such a bad idea? First, we need

Alex Jones, a far-right conspiratorial political pundit, is a frequent detractor of globalism. This belief is often repeated across the Republican party, and even with some Democrats. There is a dirty word going around the Republican party and even some parts of the Democratic party: globalism. Republicans in Congress frequently disavow so-called “globalist policies” implemented by Democratic politicians, and those of the far right paint their enemies with the often-anti-Semitic pejorative of “globalist”. But globalism should not be looked at with such disdain. In fact, the U.S. government would do good to implement true globalist policies for the benefit of the U.S. and the world.  First, we should define what we mean by “globalism”. The term refers to a perspective of national policymaking that considers its effect on a global scale. For instance, when a country is having economic issues that could be partly allayed by tariffs on global imports, a country would consider suc