The Genocide Problem: “Never Again” All Over Again
On a quiet Sunday in the early summer of 1999, I was recruited into the tiny but growing army of enigmatic characters who devote their lives to studying genocide. It …
Read MoreOctober 2004
Marci McDonald reports on the politics of the “Calgary School” and its ties to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives; Michael Adams and Stephen Handelman present parallel arguments for Bush and Kerry victories; Gerald Caplan examines our failure to prevent genocides like those in Darfur and Rwanda; fiction by Jonathan Goldstein…
Samson and Delilah
Samson’s father was an Israelite named Manoah. Manoah was an intellectual and a man of peace. He believed the troubles between his people and the Philistines could be solved through …
Read MoreNot the Six-O’clock News
In post-Communist Albania, teen reporters are redefining broadcast journalism
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Answers to Common Questions about Sex and Ageing
It’s later than you think
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The Man behind Stephen Harper
The new Conservative Party has tasted success and wants majority rule. If Tom Flanagan and his Calgary School have their way, they’ll get it without compromising their principles
Read MoreClass Is Back
North America is lucky. As two polities tied to Britain, one war-like and fit to be tied, the other much less so, the continent was settled after the notion of …
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January 20, 2003
In the summer of 1970, Shelly Grimson, a twenty-two-year-old university student with long hair, an army jacket, and a camera, was sent on a mission by poet and editor Gary …
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Pigs in the City
berlin—Derk Ehlert has that whimsical quality of movement whereby his torso seems to chase after his neck, which is thick and tilted at forty-five degrees then handsomely chiseled through his …
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Bush vs. Kerry
Two views on who will win the US election
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The First Responders
Killology in Colorado
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