Archive
- Swearing in Denmark: Wishful Thinking
- Compare Today’s Iran with the Soviet Union Shortly Before Its Downfall
- Deutschland Deutschland über Alles!
- Sketches: One year without Pollyana or Gloom and Doom
- It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
- Indian Aid to Pakistan: A Glimpse at India-Pakistan Relations
- Europe Versus the Gypsies: The Case of Carmen
- How to Think about the Forthcoming Middle East Peace Talks
- Financing a Royal Honeymoon: The Swedish Model
- “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
- The White Man’s and the White Woman’s Burden: An Editorial in Al Jazzeera
- Health Care in Hungary: A Profound Insight
- The U.S. Military — A Giant Jobs Program
- The Tamil Ship: What the Immigration and Refugee Tribunal Should Know
- Muslimophobia: Six Questions and Six Answers
- The Importance of being Ernest: A Topical Fairytale about Populism and Elitism
- The Rich and the Rest of Us
- The Latest News Report about John the Baptist
- The Twilight of the Castros: Two Contradictory Messages
- Watershed Moment or Wasted Opportunity?
- Gas Stations Should Stop Selling Alcohol!
- China: Elite Exodus
- Tattoos — Who Has Them and Why?
- Never Explain, Never Apologize!
- What Do Mahler, Rilke and Kafka Have in Common?
- The False Teeth that “Helped Win WW2” are Auctioned
- Fiction and Truth: Richard III and Napoleon
- How to Think Clearly About the Future of Conrad Black
- A Short Treatise on Dumbing Down
- The Death of Tolstoy in 1910: The First Russian Media Event
- Syria and the Politics of the Niqab
- The End of the Book — Where is the Silver Lining?
- Parents Beware: Opera Can Be Dangerous!
- Transparency and the New Canada–China Relationship
- The Latest World Heritage Site: The Atmosphere
- What Happened to “You’re Welcome”?
- Who wrote Montezuma? You guessed it: Frederick the Great.
- Remember The Third Man? Vienna Lives!
- In the Islam World: The Road from Autocracy to Democracy
- How to Celebrate the World Cup Finale: Play Beethoven’s Egmont Overture
- Let Belgium Split Up — Small is Beautiful
- Al Qaeda’s First English Language Magazine Is Here
- Cause of Cleopatra’s Death: Suicide. But How?
- Afghanistan: Only the Regional Powers Can Deliver Lasting Peace
- Jon Gnarr, Comedian and Rockstar — Mayor of Reykjavik
- A New German President and the Twilight of Angela Merkel
- Seven Eligible Royal Princes
- Capitalism–Socialism: A Political Rhetoric Test
- Madame Roland and a Weekend in Toronto
- The End of Men
- General Stanley McChrystal and General Hans von Seeckt
- The Right Therapist Wanted for the G20 Summit
- The Koran, Muslims and Violence: Six Debating Points
- What the Internet is Doing to our Brains
- De Gaulle: June 18, 1940 — One Unknown Man Alone
- The World Cup: Will Slovenia Defeat the USA Today?
- In Which City Would You Like to Live?
- European Headaches
- The Public and the Private: A New Mix in the World of Art Galleries
- Iran: The Logic of Events
- Yesterday’s Dutch Election: A Coalition with the Bogeyman?
- In Praise of Pessimism: A Conversation with Jacques Attali
- The Kremlin’s Dramatic Suggestion: A Russian Orthodox Cathedral near the Eiffel Tower
- Two Hundred Years Ago Today Robert Schumann was Born
- Shock or Pleasant Surprise? “America’s Favorite Soprano” sings Rock
- Innovation: The Twelve Winning Countries
- Interpreting Society Through Music: The Theories of Jacques Attali
- Number of Books in Parental Library: Key to the Future
- A Close Look at the Attitudes of American Jewish Students towards Israel
- Decoding Martin Heidegger: What is – and What is Not – Hard to Understand
- In Toronto Next Month at the G20 Meeting: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- A Whimsical but Daring Question about a Possible Analogy between Thailand and Canada
- You Can’t Go Home Again, Nefertiti
- Refusing To Be Enemies
- The Economics of Heisting: The Market for Stolen Picassos
- The Pleasures of Gloating: Switzerland a Triumph of Virtue
- Sibling Rivalry for the Labour Leadership
- The German Inflation of 1922–1923: The Collective Nightmare
- August 1914 and the Situation Today
- The Bedroom at 10 Downing Street
- The Importance of Being Etonian
- Charlemagne: The Latest News
- A Homecoming for Karlheinz Schreiber
- Greek Plight — Turkish Delight
- The Crisis of Legitimacy in Europe
- A Possible Result of the Economic Crisis: New Thinking about Time
- We Are Stumped
- Switzerland Should be Dissolved as a State
- Revisionist History: How Russia Defeated Napoleon
- A Writer’s Dilemma: Silvio Berlusconi versus Roberto Saviano
- Please Stop Derivatives-bashing!
- Let Us Examine the Word “Prolific”
- Plastic Surgery: Youth and Beauty for One and All
- The British and French versus the Niqab and Burqa
- Houdinis Are Hard At Work
- Sartre, Churchill, Nabokov, Adorno, Huxley
- In Praise of Non-Violence
- The Meaning of Kyrgyzstan
- The Welfare State and the Criminal State
- Two Cheers for Old Age
- Gandhi and Schiller
- It’s For Your Own Good
- Who Needs It?
- Who Said Most Muslims Are Afraid of Dogs?
- Sardonic Sardines
- Martin Heidegger: Philosopher Among the Nazis or Nazi Philosopher
- Aimez-vous Lady Gaga?
- Miss Russia U.K. — A Beauty Contest in Londongrad
- Incriminating Stimuli: A New Concept for Airport Security
- Richard Wagner’s Eyeglasses
- Frog Reveals Secret of Monogamy
- A Succinct Political Comment
- High Drama in Paris: Villepin versus Sarkozy
- Celebrity — The Great New Art Form of the Twenty-first Century
- That Was David Frum’s Week That Was
- From Gucci Capitalism to Cooperative Capitalism
- Why Tony Blair Did Not Sue
- Kurdish Zionism — An Aberration?
- Cassandra, Jeremias, Savonorola
- Blood, Iron and Health Insurance
- Pay TV in France: Counter-Intuitive, Unexpected, Amazing
- The Two-Cultures Split Revisited
- The Strong and the Weak in Europe
- What is Truth? The Latest Chapter.
- Justice versus the Rule of Law
- Governing is Heck
- The Use and Abuse of Mozart
- Please Do Not Spread This Absurd Rumour
- Islamic Cleric in U.K. Issues Anti-Terror Fatwa
- Thinking the Unthinkable: A U.S.–Iranian Deal
- The Irish Thinking Cure
- The Danish Cartoons: Conflict at Yale
- Robert Gates versus Albert Einstein
- After Seven Hundred Years — At Last…
- Composers versus Performers: An Argument among Music Lovers
- Twilight of the Generals
- The Night of the Generals
- An Oligarch on Fleet Street
- The Answer to All Our Problems
- The Sketches Logo
- Separating Art from Artists
- Beware of Pity
- My Pipeline is Better than Your Pipeline!
- Let Them Eat Seal!
- The State of the Presidency: David Brooks on Charlie Rose
- The Drop in Population in Europe: No Need to Worry!
- Dying Languages
- The Young Victoria: The Scene Left Out of the Movie
- The Temperature of Canadian Patriotism
- Music and Murder
- Nicolas versus Dominique
- The Medium — that is, the iPad — is the Message
- Sorry. I mean, excuse me.
- The Devil Had None of the Best Lines
- How to Become Rich and Famous and a Great Human Benefactor
- The End of Decayed Gentility in the U.K.
- An Obvious Idea for a Movie
- Bribes and Non-Bribes: Questions raised by a Report from Afghanistan
- The Case of the Pirate’s Skull
- The Secrets of Prague: Kafka in a New Perspective
- Biblical Guns — A Report from Afghanistan
- Google versus China: Two Views
- Freedom: yes, please. And, no, thank you.
- Widows: Laudable Achievements in Outliving Husbands
- Why Lisbon? Questioning the Reason for a Historic Earthquake
- Superb Sadism
- If Napoleon Had Won the Battle of Waterloo
- In Praise of Older Women: Part Two
- In Praise of Older Women: Part One
- Perfection
- Goodbye Sovereignty?
- Life After Fidel
- Unheard Melodies, Part 2
- Can We Trust Them?
- Unheard Melodies
- What’s a Decade?
- Happy New Year!
- The Keynesianism of Scrooge
- Absolutely Chinese: The Relationship between Music and Language
- Pythagoras
- Enjoy the Festival!
- Suggested Topics for Christmas Dinner Conversation
- Soul-Searching in France
- The Sex Life of Robinson Crusoe
- Memo to Quebec Separatists
- The Common Thread
- Dreams and Responsibility
- The Limits of Growth Revisited
- December 15
- This is the Season
- Sex and Botticelli
- Swiss Minarets: Part II
- Swiss Minarets: Part I
- A Fiction about Glenn Gould: Part II
- A Fiction about Glenn Gould: Part I
- Amateur Experts
- SF
- Sounds Familiar?
- Vigilance
- From Tokyo to Mecca
- Churchbells in Copenhagen
- Ontario Drivers — Cheer Up!
- The Case for Sparta
- The Ultimate Tax Reform
- Lawyers Beware!
- Spoilsport
- Beethoven and the Modern
- How young are you?
- Who is a Jew?
- Citizen Journalism
- Words
- The Fourteenth Colony
- Crying Accents
- A Sisterly Kiss
- November 9th
- A Nonsense Test
- Unexpected and Surprising
- Matriatism
- Agent Provocateur
- Be Proud of Your BMW!
- Shoes: Part Two
- Shoes
- Our Own Pirate
- Your Grandchildren Won’t Believe This
- Capitalism: An Islamic Story
- Book Olympics
- Art v. Politics
- The Uselessness of History
- Wagneritis, Part Two
- Wagneritis, Part One
- Auden Poem
- Blame the Media: Part Two
- Norman Bethune
- The Zürich Agreement
- Ethics versus Morals
- Paris: City of Two Towers
- Good News from California
- Guido
- Murder Mystery
- Cleopatra’s Belly Dance
- Blame the Media
- The Global Middle Class
- An Affair of State
- Perfection
- The Seventh Commandment
- Latin Lovers
- The Wimps and the Non-Wimps
- Hitlerology, Part Three
- Hitlerology, Part Two
- Hitlerology, Part One
- The Prince of Denmark Competition
- The Decline of the West — A New Board Game
- A Fox in the Henhouse?
- Could It Be True?
- The Canadian Formula
- A Good Conduct Code for Governments
- Moving to Bulgaria?
- I Know that I Know Nothing
