The Photographer and the Philosopher
The traveller, I decided one day, is part photographer and part philosopher: his aim, as he sets out, is to catch some aspect of his subject – a tilt of …
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…
The Anti-Monument
Korean artist Do-Ho Suh brings the statue down from the pedestal
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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 …
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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 …
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A Ridiculously Brief History of Rwanda
Like all major events, there are both complex and over- simplified versions of the Rwanda genocide. While there were distinguishable groups called Hutu and Tutsi before the colonial era, these …
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