Peter Stockland: It’s Time to Stop Toeing the Line of Ideological Craziness

Commentary In a pre-publication interview for her novel that will hit bookstores April 9, American author and journalist Lionel Shriver says it’s easy to diagnose what’s wrong with today’s world. Her novel is titled “Mania” because, Shriver explains, we are in the grip of the manifold social manias that periodically sweep through humanity. The evidence, she insists, is clear. “All that’s required is to take a step back and recognize everyone has gone nuts,” Shriver told Laura Dodsworth of The Free Mind website. As if to verify the claim, the National Post coincidentally reported on a legal dispute in which a self-identified non-binary Ontarian has gone to court to have the public purse pay for surgery that will leave the individual with both a vagina and a penis. Nuts R Us....