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This Acquired/Michael Lewis moment is an all-timer. What a story. So, decades after Lewis penned a 'takedown' on Buffett in The New Republic, Lewis finds himself by chance speaking with Buffett’s publicist. Buffett’s publicist says to Michael: “Warren has a question for you.” “What’s the question?” “Is this the...

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Avi Lewis attacked Ayaan Hirsi Ali after she survived forced marriage, female genital mutilation and Islamist death threats Rather than challenge Ayaan Hirsi Ali's experiences, Avi Lewis repeatedly mocked and dismissed a woman who survived female genital mutilation, escaped a forced marriage, and lived under armed protection after Islamist death threats. Avi Lewis has built a reputation as a champion of marginalized voices, especially women and victims of oppression. But when faced with one of the world's most prominent critics of radical Islam, that commitment seemed to disappear. In a resurfaced interview on On The Map from 2007, Lewis interviewed Somali-born author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a woman whose life story includes female genital mutilation, an arranged marriage, fleeing Somalia, and years under security protection after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh following their collaboration criticizing the treatment of women under Islamist doctrine. Lewis himself laid out much of that background in his introduction. Lewis introduced Hirsi Ali as a "controversial author" associated with an "arch-conservative" institution before framing her as someone benefiting from anti-Islam sentiment. Then the interview quickly turned combative. When Hirsi Ali argued that Islamic doctrines regarding women, obedience and violence required reform, Lewis pushed back by arguing she was portraying Islam as a monolith. But Hirsi Ali pushed back forcefully. When Lewis attempted to compare Islamic legal systems with social debates inside Western democracies, Hirsi Ali distinguished between individual violence and state-backed systems: "When abortion doctors in the United States were shot, the federal government reacted to it by going after the perpetrators, putting them on trial and jailing them. When in Iran two men went after a woman and a man holding hands and shot them, they were acquitted by the Supreme Court. That is the core difference." She also rejected Lewis' attempts to equate Islamist doctrines with fringe Christian extremism: "Never confuse Islamic Sharia and the Muslims who really mean it with those extremist Christians who live in the United States." When Lewis challenged her rejection of the term "Islamophobia," Hirsi Ali again distinguished between criticizing ideas and attacking people: "Islam is simply a set of beliefs and it's not Islamophobic to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy." "It's not Islamophobic to point to those people who use the Quran and the Hadith to conduct war and to say this is being done in the name of your religion, do something about it." Yet Lewis continued escalating the exchange with sarcasm. After Hirsi Ali defended liberal democracy and praised the freedoms she found in the West, Lewis mocked her views: "Tell me which Muslim country, is there a school where they teach you these American clichés?" Moments earlier, he had described her faith in American democracy as "delightful." Hirsi Ali's reply may have been the sharpest moment of the interview: "You grew up in freedom and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom." The exchange raises an uncomfortable question for Lewis and his NDP supporters: Would he speak this way to other victims describing the ideology they believe harmed them? Disagreeing with someone is one thing. Mocking a survivor while minimizing the worldview she says victimized her is another. For someone who presents himself as a defender of oppressed voices, Lewis seemed unusually willing to dismiss one when her politics did not fit the script.

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New NDP leader Avi Lewis continuing family tradition of 'champagne socialism' Avi Lewis didn’t just inherit politics ... he inherited a family throne. His grandfather, David Lewis, led the Ontario NDP. His father, Stephen Lewis, took the federal party helm and later became Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations. And now Avi Lewis carries the torch, making it three generations in a row. Rare in any party, this succession looks less like democracy and more like royalty: an elite dynasty masquerading as populist socialism. Yet while the NDP claims to fight for the underprivileged, Avi Lewis’s upbringing tells a very different story. He spent his formative years at Upper Canada College, Toronto’s priciest private school and a grooming ground for Canada’s elite. In the 1990 essay collection Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College, Lewis reflects on those years ... not as a student of modest means, but as one among the privileged. He describes classmates who “would run this world in their purest state” and recounts escorting Prince Philip during the school’s sesquicentennial. Despite this, Lewis frames himself as a victim of wealth and privilege. He repeatedly emphasizes how “gifted” he was and how persecuted he felt, ignoring that he had access, opportunity and every material advantage imaginable. He paints the schoolyard as a microcosm of corporate ruthlessness, yet he personally benefited from the very elite networks he claims to disdain. This is the hallmark of the “champagne socialist”: lecturing the working class while living among the rich and insulated. The NDP under Lewis reflects the same contradictions. Once the party of farmers and union workers, it now prioritizes identity politics, equity initiatives, and “race cards” in party procedures, an Orwellian twist that rewards activism over merit or experience. Lewis himself advocates public ownership of the means of production while comfortably ensconced in wealth, married to activist Naomi Klein, and surrounded by lifelong left-wing elites. REPORT by Ezra Levant 🍁🚛:

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