A Further Inquiry

09/06/2025

KHADIJA KHAN: Groomed, Ignored, Betrayed: How the British State Abandoned Its Daughters

The long-overdue moral reckoning about the grooming gang scandal finally took centre stage in a specially extended program on BBC Newsnight.

03/05/2025

“When I was a teenager kicked out of the house, I found something better than rebellion: old men who worked with their hands and taught with their hearts. Old Nick didn’t say much, but on dirty job sites, I learned more from him than school ever taught me.”
- Scott Douglas Jacobsen

What do we inherit from the broken men who teach us how to build?

03/05/2025

“When I was a teenager kicked out of the house, I found something better than rebellion: old men who worked with their hands and taught with their hearts. Old Nick didn’t say much, but on dirty job sites, I learned more from him than school ever taught me.”
- Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Link in bio.

03/05/2025

“BN SeaCon 2024 showed the power of community, connection, and purpose. With Revival of Reason 2025 on the horizon, we’re building a stronger, more united secular movement—one voice, one mission.” – Mandisa Thomas interviewed by Scott Jacobsen

Why are BN SeaCon 2025 and the Revival of Reason gathering becoming essential annual events for nonbelievers seeking community and empowering secular leadership?

03/05/2025

“BN SeaCon 2024 showed the power of community, connection, and purpose. With Revival of Reason 2025 on the horizon, we’re building a stronger, more united secular movement—one voice, one mission.” – Mandisa Thomas interviewed by Scott Jacobsen

Link in bio.

03/05/2025

“Feminism in Afghanistan is not a reform—it’s resistance. Our fight isn’t just ours; it’s a shared responsibility. Canada must align its feminist foreign policy with real action to support Afghan voices. Storytelling is our power against authoritarian silence.”
— Marwa Dashti interviewed by Scott Jacobsen

How is a Toronto-based foundation carrying forward the fight for Afghan women’s rights and press freedom under one of the world’s most repressive regimes?

03/05/2025

“Feminism in Afghanistan is not a reform—it’s resistance. Our fight isn’t just ours; it’s a shared responsibility. Canada must align its feminist foreign policy with real action to support Afghan voices. Storytelling is our power against authoritarian silence.” — Marwa Dashti interviewed by Scott Jacobsen

Link in bio.

02/05/2025

“The March West was not a symbolic exercise. It was a strategic assertion of Canadian nationhood. Had the Mounties failed—had they turned back, or sparked armed conflict, or been overwhelmed—the United States might have seized the opportunity to expand northward.“
- Mathew Giagnorio

What they left out of the textbooks

02/05/2025

“The March West was not a symbolic exercise. It was a strategic assertion of Canadian nationhood. Had the Mounties failed—had they turned back, or sparked armed conflict, or been overwhelmed—the United States might have seized the opportunity to expand northward.“
- Mathew Giagnorio

Link in bio.

02/05/2025

“Why can’t we study Muslimness?

Sociologists study collective behaviour all the time. Muslims themselves say Islam is an all-encompassing way of life.
So why pretend Muslimness—a public expression of that total worldview—doesn’t exist?”
- Rahul Sur

Part 3 of 10

02/05/2025

“Why can’t we study Muslimness?

Sociologists study collective behaviour all the time. Muslims themselves say Islam is an all-encompassing way of life.
So why pretend Muslimness—a public expression of that total worldview—doesn’t exist?”
- Rahul Sur

Link in bio.