Imagine you are a school principal in a quiet district in Peru. One morning, an official-looking email arrives, stamped with the seal of your country’s Ministry of Education. It announces a special national celebration, something called the National Day of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, and asks your school to hold an assembly. Students are to learn about certain Ukrainian political figures, read prepared statements, and present them as part of the day’s activities. It sounds odd, but the document looks legitimate. It has the right headers, the right formatting, the right tone of bureaucratic authority. So you agree. Teachers print…

It is tempting to breathe a sigh of relief now that Canada’s federal consumer carbon tax is dead and buried. After years of shouting matches at kitchen tables, parking lots, and Parliament Hill, the tax was repealed in 2025, and many Canadians would probably be happy to never hear the words “price on pollution” again. But for those of us who spent years studying the policy, the end of the carbon tax doesn’t feel like a clean resolution. It feels like a warning. We keep coming back to the same unsettling question: how did a policy that was designed to…