Stephen Marche

We Should All Be Canadians (Un’altra America è possibile) A nord del confine con gli Usa di Trump c’è un Paese che, grazie al suo inatteso soft power, si propone come “faro in un mondo alla deriva”

Even the Italians think we're cool now. I loved talking to La Repubblica about Canada's cultural moment. d.repubblica.it/culture/2026...

Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage The world is angry. Canada’s been there all along.

“For better or for worse, what people most admire in Canada, certainly more than success, is the capacity to endure,” Stephen Marche writes. “What liberal democracies need now, more than ever, is the sheer will to go on, without nostalgia for what once was.”

These drone shots make it abundantly clear that downhill skiing is an utterly insane human activity.

Text from NYT Op-ed: At the same time, America is becoming synonymous with dangerous randomness. The constitutional system is in collapse. The legislative branch, made up of both Democrats and Republicans, is missing in action. The Supreme Court debates the legal equivalent of how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, while the legal order that has held the country together for 250 years sputters toward an ignominious end. Nobody knows what America is anymore — not Americans, not their enemies, not their friends. Coming to terms with this reality has not been easy in Canada. American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug; it’s hard to break the habit of thinking of Americans as the good guys. For Canadians, what is unfolding in Minnesota and elsewhere is happening to our friends, our neighbors, our colleagues, our kin — it is happening to people we love and understand better than anybody. But “the rupture,” as Mr. Carney calls it, is nothing more than seeing clearly. Today, it’s America that poses a threat to our freedom and democracy. Not China. Not Russia. America.

From writer @stephenmarche.bsky.social, proud Canadian, on what the current despot rule of the US has meant for Canada and the world.

(Also note his nomenclature for the US.)

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage The world is angry. Canada’s been there all along.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“For better or for worse, what people most admire in Canada, certainly more than success, is the capacity to endure,” Stephen Marche writes. “What liberal democracies need now, more than ever, is the sheer will to go on, without nostalgia for what once was.”

Love this piece from @stephenmarche.bsky.social

Stephen Marche:

Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage

For @nytimes I wrote about the globalization of Canadian rage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

This passage from Thomas More was, when I was doing my PhD, hotly debated: Did Shakespeare write it or not? There was all kinds of statistical evidence, computer programs, etc. one way and the other. But when you hear Ian McKellen read it, there is exactly zero doubt.

Autor Stephen Marche über Trumps Irrsinn: „Im Kern des amerikanischen Systems herrscht Fäulnis“ Der kanadische Autor Marche hat wenig Hoffnung, dass die USA bald zu demokratischen Verhältnissen zurückfinden. Er warnt auch vor Bürgerkrieg.

Autor Stephen Marche über Trumps Irrsinn: „Im Kern des amerikanischen Systems herrscht Fäulnis“ taz.de/Autor-Stephe...

"There's no topping Premier Kinew" is the funniest line ever uttered by a Canadian Prime Minister.

About Fort Sumter, Jefferson Davis said "it is either the beginning of a fearful war, or the end of a political contest."

Now on andrewyang.com/podcast I catch up with the author of “the Next Civil War” and my collaborator on “The Last Election” @stephenmarche.bsky.social on what is happening in the US, the perspective from north of the border and more.

For places trying to reckon with the new US there are two countries to listen to. Canada, because we see what's happening there with the most clarity. And Finland, because they know what to do about it.

Canadians have always found Britain's notion of having a "special relationship" with the US hilarious. It's special all right.

Yall I should not have read The next Civil War by Stephen Marche, because I believe we are living one of his predicted vignettes.

Also if you’ve not read it yet you really should. The spotlight it puts on our nation is alarmingly bright.

One of my RMC classmates died in an IED blast in Iraq serving in a US exchange command position.

F—- trump. He’s both a coward and has a complete lack of honour.

Depends where you are. If you're in London, somewhere around 1490. If you're in remote rural places, the dialects would be only partially comprehensible into the 19th century. In Newfoundland today, the most archaic English extant, it can still be hard to understand when they talk to each other.

America the predator: Trump wants to show the world he can take what he wants The Trump administration has now taken the logic of rape as a primary modus operandi. It begins with the raw worship of force, with the premise that might entitles the holder to whatever he likes

I've got a piece in the @globeandmail about America and the logic of the predator, expanding and making more concrete my thoughts about @MarkJCarney at Davos. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/663dcd3...

YouTube video by exexalien AL TUCK & NO ACTION - Buddah

Great Canadian band of the 1990s: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d42j...

YouTube video by The Onion New Live Poll Lets Pundits Pander To Viewers In Real Time

But I also think "Live Poll Lets Pundits Pander to Viewers in Real Time" has a legitimate case.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFpK...

After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016 Sources say the screaming orb might be the only potential candidate that would tap into Republicans’ deep-seated, seething fury after this election.

Hard question: Which @TheOnion article predicted the future most accurately?

My number one would be "Shrieking, White-Hot Sphere of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-runner for 2016."
theonion.com/after-obama-...

Cut "President of the" and change "him" to "them." That's how the rest of the world sees it.

Good day to be Canadian.

The line I can't forget from Trump's press conference today was "immigrants work in luncheonettes." I'm not sure I know what a luncheonette even is. What drug caused that particular synapsis to fire at that moment?

This is an excellent podcast

Gloves Off Gloves Off with Stephen Marche

While the Mad King of America blathers, and Mark Carney defines the rupture of the international order, I feel a need to post that we made a podcast about how Canada can protect itself from the coming madness. We made this show for this moment. shows.acast.com/gloves-off

Gloves Off Gloves Off with Stephen Marche

While the Mad King of America blathers, and Mark Carney defines the rupture of the international order, I feel a need to post that we made a podcast about how Canada can protect itself from the coming madness. We made this show for this moment. shows.acast.com/gloves-off

If this man represents your country, you surely most know that you are in trouble. He looks like he's shitting himself while he's talking.

2026 has only had twenty days so far. We're not through 1/15th of it.