Welcome to Dead Wild Roses.

Dead Wild Roses is a Canadian blog, written from Alberta, about politics, culture, science, religion, media, feminism, music, free speech, and the strange rituals of modern public life.

It began as a place to think out loud. It still is. The subject matter has changed over the years, but the basic instinct has not: examine the claim, check the mechanism, distrust moral theatre, and ask whether the institution demanding trust has earned it.

You will find essays here on Canadian politics, progressive moral language, gender ideology, feminism, media bias, public broadcasting, secular religion, institutional trust, science, medicine, classical music, and the collapse of ordinary distinctions. You will also find choral notes, satire, and the occasional detour, because a blog without detours becomes a pamphlet rack.

Disagreement is welcome. Bad arguments are not made better by piety, credentialing, or fashionable vocabulary. Sacred cows may be examined. Some may be released unharmed. Others may not be so lucky.

New here? Try the Start Here page for a guided introduction, the DWR Working Glossary for recurring terms, or the Commenting Suggestions page for house norms around disagreement.

—The Arbourist