Mark Milke, Ph.D., is a public policy analyst, author, and columnist with six books and dozens of studies published in the last two decades. Mark’s newest book, The Victim Cult: How the culture of blame hurts everyone and wrecks civilizations was an Amazon bestseller when released in Canada in 2019. The U.S. version was released late last year. Mark and a blue-ribbon board of directors are setting up a new think tank in Canada, The Aristotle Foundation for Pubic Policy. It will deal with issues related to reason, democracy, and civilization that range from attacks on empiricism, to claims Canada is “systemically” racist, to other unsupportable claims that emanate from the ivory tower, to concrete policy proposals on how to improve our civilization, including for the purposes of the discussion at this year’s Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference —how to make our cities better.