Life After the End of History
For most of the last century, the West faced real enemies: totalitarian, aggressive, armed to the teeth…
Obama and Canada
As I was watching the "We are One" concert in celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama…
Beauty and Democracy
It has been quite a week. I watched the American election results overnight in London…
Geographies of dissent (2)
I like the phrase, “Geographies of Dissent? It suggests a great deal to me…
Euston Manifesto (1)
After years of accepting and even supporting an unclear and often unthoughtout ideology rooted in…
Euston Manifesto (2)
After years of accepting and even supporting an unclear and often unthoughtout ideology rooted in…
The Frontiers of Our Dreams Are No Longer The Same* (2)
Aquin wanted a total ‘national revolution’. He wanted to rebuild Quebec society from the bottom up…
The Frontiers of Our Dreams Are No Longer the Same (1)*
It was an overcast day in 1977 when the great writer and Quebec nationalist, Hubert Aquin, committed suicide…
Hypochondriac Culture (2)
Hypochondria is an insidious disease because it is a silent and often invisible part of the suffering of so many people
Hypochondriac Culture (6)
Imagine the following. There is a sudden change in your body temperature