Archive

• The Victory of Black Pete in the Netherlands
• Three Voltaire Quotes
• Eating People Is Wrong
• Good Cop, Bad Cop in Israel
• Whose Theme Song Should This Be?
• The Ukraine Between East and West
• Two Criticisms of Angela Merkel
• Without Hockey, the CBC Will Be Better
• Princess Anne: Eating Horsemeat “Might Improve Animal Welfare”
• Let Us Remember Aldous Huxley, the Author of “Brave New World”
• Canada’s International Shame — And It’s Not Rob Ford
• The Etymology of the Word “Scandal”
• Explaining Quebec to the Americans
• A Buying Frenzy of Art and Jewelry
• The German Export Surplus — A Danger to the World?
• Do Better!
• The Far Right in Europe is Gaining Ground — But Within Limits
• Bilingualism Could Delay Onset of Dementia
• The Fiftieth Anniversary of Doctor Who
• What Do Rob Ford and JFK Have in Common?
• Nazi Art Theft and Modern Art
• The New Mayor of New York: A Victory of Populism over Plutocracy
• Out of the Mouths of Comedians
• The Ford Nation Versus Rosedale
• The Mastermind of the Holocaust May Have Been Buried in a Jewish Cemetery in Berlin
• If I Can Spy on You, You Can Spy on Me
• The Psychological Consequences of Mastering the Chinese Writing System
• Public Television Is Criticized in Germany
• Can We Link a Composer’s Work to Events in His Life?
• The Bizarre Story of Tito’s Widow
• Old Prejudices Flare Up Against Roma in Europe
• US Ambassador to Germany Summoned in Merkel Mobile Row
• Catherine Deneuve at Seventy
• An Evil (But Ingenious) Canadian Plan to Subvert the United States
• How to Be a Perfectly Decent Male Chauvinist Pig
• Hundreds of Harvard Students Have Their Lives Changed by Ancient Chinese Philosophers
• Music: The Key to Success
• Israelis Debate the Brain Drain
• October 16–19, 1813 — The Battle of Leipzig
• The Debate About Public Broadcasting: The BBC and the CBC
• Alice Munro Won: Some Did Not
• The U.S. Shutdown: Two Perspectives
• Lampedusa, Italy, and the European Union
• The Ethics of Snooping
• An Interview with George Soros: Angela Merkel, Greece and the U.S. Shutdown
• Google, Moscow Jewish Museum Launch Virtual Exhibition
• O Liberty! What Crimes are Committed in Thy Name!
• The 75th Anniversary of an Editorial in the London Times
• Who Would Dare to Criticize Beethoven’s Ode to Joy?
• The Political Language of Shoes
• Why Do We Say Foolish Things?
• An Era Ends with Reich-Ranicki’s Death
• The Salvaging of the Costa Concordia as a Metaphor
• A Common Element in Global Protests
• Deborah Coyne’s Views on Quebec’s Proposed Charter of Values
• The German Election: The Day After
• The Growing Isolation of Germany
• A Dinner Party with Silvio Berlusconi and Dominique Strauss-Kahn
• Quality Print Journalism Must be Supported by Readers
• Lyudmila Putin, Russia’s Former First Lady
• Silvio Berlusconi May at Last be Facing the End of His Political Career – Or…
• New Winds are Blowing in New York Politics
• The First Lady of Syria
• The Fortieth Anniversary of the Chilean Coup
• “Tchaikovsky was gay. So what?,” says Putin
• A Moment When Chemical Weapons Might Have Been Useful
• The Terrible Power of War Photos
• Putin, Syria and the Caucasus
• A Comment in The Guardian
• Why Are You Running for Mayor?
• The Middle East, Explained in One Chart
• Of Humming Birds and Bumblebees
• Has a Military Coup Ever Saved a Democracy?
• The Use of the Term “Middle Class” by Politicians
• The Psychology of the Trill
• The Muslim Brotherhood, the Nazis, the Coup
• Hades Discovered in the Ruins of Hierapolis
• The Eyes Have It — Not the Ears
• Reflections on the Situation of Canada’s Aboriginals
• The Death of Jacques Vergès, the Lawyer Who Defended Klaus Barbie and Carlos the Jackal
• Salman Rushdie on the Culture of Hatred
• Two Quotes About Egypt
• Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief, Russia Today
• What’s it like being called Messiah?
• A “Traitor”? Wave of Hate Follows False Story of Gorbachev’s Death
• Love and Pain at the Couchiching Conference
• Putin’s Catch Is Fishy
• It’s Not True: Mozart Was Not Buried in a Mass Grave!
• The Virtues of Government Secrecy
• The New Economic Era’s Challenge for Educators
• Should the Humanities be Taught Because They are Useful?
• For Cuba, a Harsh Self-assessment
• Robert Fowler on Returning to Africa
• The Decline of Europe: The Views of Historian Walter Laqueur
• Royal Baby’s Impact on the German Election Campaign
• Caroline Kennedy — The New American Ambassador to Japan
• In Romania: Bribe the Teachers to Pass Exams
• The Situation of Ex-President Morsi
• The Royal Baby and the Mountbattens
• Accept it: Kate Middleton Is Not a Jewish Princess
• Facing a Setback in Style: Readers’ Competition
• Mutiny in the Land of Wind Turbines
• Putin’s Russia: Two Perspectives
• Can Video Games Change Human Behaviour?
• Virginia Woolf on Highbrows and Lowbrows
• Street Protests Are the Easy Part
• Hungary: The Government of Viktor Orbán
• Two Glimpses of George Bernard Shaw
• Napoleon’s Celebration After Beating the Prussian Army at Jena
• Today’s Celebration: Sketch Number 1,000
• At the Midpoint: The Federal Canadian Landscape
• A Problem for King Albert of Belgium
• The Rise of the Collaborative Economy
• Does the Dalai Lama Have a Position on Facebook?
• Canada Day: The Ode to Joy
• Sheila Heti’s Toronto
• Common Denominators Among Protests in Many Countries
• Employees Save Public Broadcasting in Greece
• Talking to the Taliban: An Editorial in The Economist (June 22)
• The Last Thing You’d Want to Know
• Does Great Literature Make Us Better?
• Cultural Diversity in the Czech Republic
• Whistle-blowers Are Not Rebels
• Public Broadcasting Abolished in Greece
• “I Don’t Think the Arab Spring Is Over” — Shimon Peres
• Sales of Orwell’s “1984” Spike
• Latvia — A New Member of the Euro Zone?
• The Suveillance Debate in the U.S.: The Brooks–Shields Analysis
• Larry King on Russia Today
• War Sold to American Soldiers as Erotic Adventure
• “Reading for Freedom” — Prison Reform in Brazil
• Spanish Nostalgia for General Franco
• America’s Solution: Be More Like Canada
• The Coming German Election: A Prognosis
• Sound Familiar? Allegations in the House of Lords
• The United States of Europe: The French Have the Ideas – The Germans the Money
• China and the Arctic
• Saving the CBC: A Suggestion from Wade Rowland
• Are Symphony Orchestras in Trouble? Follow Munich!
• Today Is Henry Kissinger’s 90th Birthday
• Would We Prefer a Lean and Hungry Look?
• How the Quantity of the Words We Use Reveals Cultural Shifts
• General Patton’s Costly Misadventure at the End of WW2
• Singing Astronaut Raises the Bar
• “We Steal Secrets” — A Documentary About Julian Assange
• The Resistible Fall of Europe: The Views of George Soros
• The CBC in Crisis? The Views of Patrick Gossage
• Albert Camus: Born a Hundred Years Ago
• Senator Mike Duffy: A Stylish Leader
• Søren Kierkegaard — Born Two Hundred Years Ago
• A Year After Hollande’s Election, Relations with Merkel Are Worse than Anybody Predicted
• Homo Sapiens v. Homo Economicus
• Graduate Student Thomas Herndon — World Celebrity
• The Queen Should be Allowed to Abdicate
• The Joy of Being Wrong
• “The Poverty Lie”: Germans Wonder Whether the Bailout Countries Are REALLY Poor
• The Unscheduled Rewards of Empire: Portuguese Flee to Angola
• Eternal Verities and Twitter
• “Mandatory Carriage” — A Hot-button Issue for the CRTC
• The One Percent Solution
• The Job Market for British Butlers Is Booming
• Computer Sales in Free Fall
• Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965): An Idealist Who Kept His Word
• In the Name of Justice, Let Transparency Prevail!
• Boston and the American Immigration Debate
• Competition
• The Curse of Digital Technology on Campus
• Year-long Sugar Feast in Sweden
• Widows: Laudable Achievements in Outliving Husbands
• The Future of Classical Music: The Views of Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012)
• The Decline of Wine-drinking in France
• Melting Andes
• Carla Bruni’s New Album
• Madness and Civilization
• Thoughts About North Korea
• The Story of Albert Göring, Hermann’s Younger Brother
• Sydney Newman and Doctor Who
• Scholars Accuse Shakespeare of Tax Evasion
• Why Do People Talk Nonsense in Public?
• An Exercise in Naïveté: Advice to the Egyptians and the Americans
• An American View of Canadian Healthcare: It’s Dysfunctional, Too!
• What Are They Saying in Belgium? “Things Are Looking Up. It’s Time for Your Majesty to Resign.”
• A Case Against Materialism: Thomas Nagel’s Book “Mind and Cosmos”
• Pessimists Live Longer Than Optimists
• The Crisis in Cyprus: An Unexpected Geopolitical Powderkeg
• Is Smart Making Us Dumb?
• Obama Visit: Dialogue at an Imaginary State Dinner Hosted by President Mahmoud Abbas
• Two Years to Save the CBC, Says Author of New Book
• Outrage in Cyprus: An Explanation
• Dreams
• Doug Christie: Excerpts from the Unauthorized Obituary
• Paul Krugman: A Trilogy
• A Definition of a Witch-Hunt and Three Canadian Cases
• Today’s Conclave in Rome: An Imaginary Scenario
• Why Stephen Harper May Step Down This Summer
• A Scientific Analysis of Pop Music
• The Audience — A New Play by Peter Morgan in London’s Gielgud Theatre
• Thinking (Again) About Work and Leisure
• Frank Stronach’s Crusade to Transform Austria
• The (Apparently) Absolute Taboo of Discussing Child Porn in Canada
• In Memoriam: Stéphane Hessel
• The Italian Election: Two Responses
• The Audacity of de Gaulle
• The Spiritual Quest Defines All Great Art — Camille Paglia
• A Reply to an Operatic Provocation in Toronto’s National Post
• Germany is Starving for Scandals
• Al Jazeera is Losing Battle for Independence
• Of (Lab) Mice and Men
• The Case of the People Versus Amazon
• The Scientist as Hero: The Case of Galileo
• Winds of Change Are Blowing in Sweden
• Greenland — A Chinese Labour Camp?
• “Arrêtons le France-Bashing!”
• Grammar and Politics: The Verb “To Grow”
• Annette Schavan and Oliver Sacks
• The Appointment of Rahul Gandhi
• Discussing the Legal Basis for Killing U.S. Citizens Abroad
• My Kingdom for a…
• Three Vignettes from the Climate Change Scene in Canada
• The Motives of Islamist Actions in Timbuktu: Hatred for the West
• Shimon Peres Focuses on the Nano
• From the U.K.: The Latest Census Data
• The Russian Communist Party “Protects the Spiritual and Moral Traditions of Russia”
• Welcome to the Panthéon, Denis Diderot!
• What Do Aung San Suu Kyi and Christie Blatchford Have in Common? Respect for the Military.
• Cheer Up: The American Economy Is Looking Better
• A French Conservative Remembers the Sixties
• Planning a Literary Dinner? Read This.
• France and the Use of Military Power
• Our Truth Is Truer Than Your Truth: The Iranian Response to Argo
• What Do the Trojan Horse and Jacques Cartier Have In Common?
• Mechanized Dandelions: A Design to Clear Land Mines
• The Greek Gold Rush — A Classical Choice Between Desire and Conscience
• Don’t Analyze Humour!
• First Nations and the Treaty of Westphalia
• Shaking Off the Burdens of the Past — New Thinking About Race
• 2012 — The Year of the Arab Counter-revolution
• French Animal Rights Activist Brigitte Bardot Threatens to Request Russian Citizenship
• Al Jazeera Buys Al Gore’s Cable Channel
• And Now the Good News: The Health of Children in Poor Countries Has Vastly Improved
• The Decline of Innovation
• Your Report Card for 2012 — Congratulations, You Passed!
• This Hour Had Seven Days — and One Driving Force: Doug Leiterman
• Twenty Years Ago Today: The 1993 Velvet Divorce
• A Somber Statistic to Mark the End of 2012
• Of Whom Will You Be Envious in 2013?
• The Queen Attends a Cabinet Meeting
• The Nobel Peace Prize for the European Union
• Mary and Joseph Were Homeless Vagrants
• Something to Remember If You are Giving or Receiving a Book as a Christmas Present
• Scrapping Welfare: A Canadian Experiment Making the Case for a Guaranteed Annual Income
• Boredom May Be Good for You
• The Early Success of Laurier Lapierre
• Internet Regulation: A Digital Cold War?
• On Seeing the Met’s Aida on the First Day of the Referendum in Egypt
• The Kaiser and the Huns — Did He Really Say That?
• The Hoax and the Suicide — The Ultimate Question
• It’s Not True: The World Will Not End on December 21
• Salvador Dalí — Greater than Picasso?
• Words of Encouragement to Our Readers in North Korea
• The Banning of Old Cars from Paris Streets
• A Little More Flagellation, Herr Krugman. Please.
• Our Future King or Queen
• Good News for Collectors of Napoleon Letters
• After Rob Ford: The Counter Revolution
• Independent U.K. Booksellers Fight Amazon
• The European Union’s Struggle with Austerity
• Evictions in Spain
• A Visit to a Unique Museum in Odessa
• The Tablets: Moses and McLuhan
• The Operating System of the BBC’s New Director-General
• The Advantages of Being Neurotic
• Suggestion: The Nobel Peace Prize for George Soros
• Rudyard Kipling Revisited
• Could Charles Darwin Have Won?
• Don’t Grow Old in Bulgaria!
• The Remarkable Resilience of Kurt Masur
• The Noble Art of Falling on One’s Sword
• Don’t Hold Your Breath: Republicans Will Not Seek Freedom in Canada
• A Trajectory of November Remembrances
• Who Guards the Guardians?
• Death of an American Composer at 103
• The Morning After: Think of Something Else
• The Ancient Art of Fooling Voters
• Rommel: Hitler’s Tool and Victim
• Deep Mourning for the Closing of a McDonald’s in Milan
• Allan Gregg and the Role of Reason in Politics
• Let Us Talk About the Weather, and About Being Wrong About It
• An Idea for a Black Comedy
• Conrad Black’s Invective: The Word “Bourgeois”
• The Difference Between Earning and Deserving
• A Reflection on Elitism and the State
• Monday’s Debate: The Exchange We Were Waiting For
• The Cuban Missile Crisis — What REALLY Happened?
• Russian TV Presents U.S. Third Parties Candidates in English with Larry King
• Two Encounters in the Heart of Darkness
• François Hollande versus Angela Merkel
• Understanding Canadian Medicare
• Tonight’s Debate: Will the Moderator be Allowed to Moderate?
• And Now, a Word from Chris Hedges
• What Did You Do During the War, Granddad?
• Tonight’s Debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan: Before You Decide Who Won, Count to Ten
• Q. and A. about the War of 1812
• The Case for the U.N. General Assembly
• Mitt Romney versus Big Bird
• Why Aren’t Bulgarians Angry?
• How Much Wiser We Are Than We Were in 1920 — Or Are We?
• Remembering the Great Historian Eric Hobsbawm
• Nuclear Iran: A View Rarely Heard on This Continent
• Recovering from Three Days of “I Love Culture”
• Justin Trudeau Might Set a Precedent
• Islam Versus the West: An Explanation
• The Situation Is Hopeless…
• Glenn Gould at Eighty
• Frederick the Great, General de Gaulle and Angela Merkel
• The End of Bullfighting in Catalonia
• The Cossacks Are Back
• Germans Prefer Classical Music to Pop
• Brother, Can You Spare Three Hundred Million Pounds?
• The Occupy Movement: The First Anniversary
• Canada’s Founding Fathers: A Bunch of Losers
• A Call for a Banking Union — A First Step Towards European Federation
• Young People of France — Get the Hell Out of Here!
• The New Government in Quebec and Radio-Canada
• The American Conventions and “The Middle Class”
• From the Post-Clinton Era to the Pre-Clinton Era
• The Euro Crisis: The Conclusions of Frank Stronach
• Spectacular Media Manipulation in Tehran: Substituting One Nation for Another
• On Election Day in Quebec, Let Us Honour Jean Chrétien
• Lunch with Tom Stoppard
• Otto von Bismarck — Angela Merkel
• The Class System at a Glance
• A United Europe? Bad Idea. An Interview with André Glucksmann.
• Five Memorable Facts About Goethe (1749–1832)
• The Pussy Riot: An English Perspective
• Thomas A. Edison and the Holy Grail
• Israel versus Iran: A Couchiching Interview with General Charles Bouchard
• The Cold War: Part Two
• The Curse of the Protestant Work Ethic
• A Question for Music-Lovers: Did Beethoven Compose at the Speed at Which He Intended the Work to be Performed?
• Mark Thompson, former Director-General of the BBC, becomes CEO of The New York Times
• Men of Power and the Creation of Their Own Reality
• Mike Tyson — Superhero
• How to Overcome the Internal Contradictions in Arab Society: Advice from a Visiting Scholar
• It Is True: Popular Music Is Getting Louder and More Homogeneous All The Time
• James Joyce, Harbinger of Contemporary Risk Society
• Goldman Sachs — A Benefactor of Humanity
• The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse
• Japan: A Land Without Guns
• The Politics of Love: The Case of Nadja Drygalla
• Let Us Remember Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
• The Meaning of Aleppo: Brush Up Your Shakespeare!
• The Whiff of Scandal at the Bayreuth Festival
• Jerusalem versus Tel Aviv: Mitt Romney Emulates Joe Clark
• The Euro Crisis: Two American Economists Suggest Solutions
• Kafka – Kafkaesque. Chaplin – Chaplinesque?
• Can You Guess the World’s Fastest Growing Economy? (No, It’s Not China)
• Canadians Date Less During NHL Playoffs
• This Is Our Life
• Napoleon’s Letter in English Sold at Auction for $405,000
• Churchill and the Jews
• A Comparison between the U.S. Today and the German Weimar Republic (1919–1933)
• Belgian Responsibility for Past and Present Troubles in Africa
• Risking One’s Life and the Demands of Honour
• Ernest Hemingway and Daniel Perlmutter
• England Once Again Offers Asylum to Persecuted Foreigners
• If It’s True that Mozart Was Autistic – Is That Interesting?
• Pessimism for the Future of the Euro
• Two Instances of Applied Democracy: in the U.K. and in the U.S.
• The Football Hangover: A Retrospective of Euro 2012
• A Simple Solution to the Greek Crisis
• Karl Marx Was Two-thirds Right
• Is Militarism All Bad?
• Who Is Teaching Whom? The Soccer Lessons of Kiev.
• Canada Day, Big Ben and the Rights of Women
• The Royal Family: What Is Behind the Royal Curtsey Row?
• Morality in Politics: The Views of the President of Germany
• At Last the Twain Meet After All: Aung San Suu Kyi’s Unifying Triumph
• Suggestion for the Liberal Party of Canada: Model Yourself on the German Piratenpartei
• Agonizing Over Syria
• The Far Right in France: The Politics of Public Benches
• “The Cost Every Person Has to Pay for His Existence Is a Constant.”
• Henry Kissinger Warns Against Military Intervention in Syria
• Bill C-31: The Canadian Government Versus Refugees
• The Prospect for Greece: The Sun will Shine Again
• Nina Khrushcheva, Great-Granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, Writes about Putin
• New Delhi By-Passes One Century of British Rule
• Euro 2012: I Want to Be an England Fan and a Muslim. Why Is That So Hard?
• Poland Has Re-invented Itself
• Jacques Attali’s Dream for a Solution of the Euro Crisis
• Dissecting the Greek Soul — An Interview with Nikos Dimou
• One Way to Make It Easier for You to Be Honest
• End in Sight for Dominant Role of Orthodox in Israel
• Canadian Butterflies Perform Better than British Butterflies — At Least in Numbers
• Three Takes on the Quebec Student Protest
• Against Ovation Inflation
• In the U.S., for the First Time Ever, the Majority of the Unemployed have Attended Some College
• Is This True of Young People in Quebec?
• The Strange Behaviour of Nobel Laureates
• Can You Be Moral and Rich — and Greek?
• The Latest News from the Scourge of the Praying Classes
• The Closer Spain has Moved to Europe, the More Democracy has Eluded Its Grasp
• Cheer Up! We Don’t Necessarily Become More Decrepit As We Grow Older
• How to Explain the Mulcair-versus-the-West Polemics to Outsiders
• Today as We Celebrate Queen Victoria’s Birthday, Let Us Remember THIS
• The Government of Rumania Narrowly Escaped Making a Grave Mistake
• The Centenary of the Death of King Frederick VIII of Denmark
• The Turning Point Was the Seventies — Noam Chomsky
• Let Them Eat Caviar! Soon Some of Us Will.
• To Explain the Current Crisis, Who’s Right — The Structuralists or the Anti-Structuralists?
• Canada Among the Winners in the New World Disorder
• The Pro-and-Con Austerity Debate is Beside the Point – The Basic Problems Are Structural
• America in the Computer Age: Technology a Mirror of Society
• The Presidency of France Has a Job Description Written by Charles de Gaulle
• Swedes are Leading the Way. Canada Should Follow.
• Angela Merkel May Lose French Election
• Let Opera Solve Your Love or Relationship Problem
• Europe’s Far Right Is Stronger Than Ever Since 1945
• A Footnote to “Footnote”: The Death of Benzio Netanyahu
• Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair, J.S. Woodsworth, Mackenzie King and Adolf Hitler
• Economic Suicide in Europe
• How Do We Become Politically Engaged?
• Eurozone Once More in Turmoil
• A Nightmare on Trial
• The Romantic Origin of Philippe Loret, French Plumber
• The Globalization of Health Care
• Whistle-blower Julian Assange Is in the News Again
• What to Do About the CBC
• Günter Grass’s Provocation
• What about this — the 108th version of a Titanic movie?
• Teaching Greeks to Pay Taxes
• Altruism and Nature — Dawkins v. E.O. Wilson
• The Chinese in Venice
• Darwin and the Internet
• The Theatrical Talents of Adolf Hitler — An Assessment by “Putzi” Hanfstaengl
• Is There a Science of Art? The Findings of Eric Kandel
• Revolutions, Violence and Democracy: The Lessons of History
• Classical Music is Good for Mice
• When Did the Decline of the West Begin?
• The U.S. Supreme Court May Be Out of Step
• After the Budget: A Concrete Suggestion for Seniors
• An Eco-ethical Fossil Fuel: Compressed Natural Gas
• Chomsky on the Study of Language
• Picture is Worth Three Words: What a Relief!
• “He is Nothing but a Political Opportunist…”
• The Limited Support for International Law by the Five Great Powers
• The Loss of the Falkland Islands: The Effect on Argentina
• Nuclear Diplomacy in the Middle East
• Yesterday’s Resignation of Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC
• The Civil War in Syria
• Dishonesty a Most Welcome Quality
• The Grilling of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Despite Austerity, Luxury Goods are Thriving
• A Truly Tragic Statistic: The Suicide of Veterans
• The Decline of the West and the Two Hemispheres of the Brain
• Einstein the Violinist — Did He Really Play So Badly?
• Canadian Pension Funds — “Maple Revolutionaries”
• Ayn Rand: “The Ugliest Philosophy the Postwar World has Produced”
• Joachim Gauck: The New President of Germany — Left-wing, Liberal, Conservative
• Edmonton — Music and Oil Sands
• Trust Your Intuition — And See What Happens!
• The Iranian Nuclear Program — Three Perspectives
• Monsieur Lazhar — A Triumph for Quebec Films
• Darwin and the Invention of Love
• A Key to the Republican Primaries
• Angela Merkel Campaigns for Nicolas Sarkozy
• Three Musical Landmarks
• In the Beginning Was — Music
• Is There a Right to Lie?
• This Is the House that Wulff Built
• Who – or what – is responsible for Greece’s plight?
• Iran — Home of the Largest Jewish Community in the Middle East Outside Israel
• Immigrants Emigrate — The Effect of Emigration on Rumania
• Is American Decline a Myth?
• Saving Greece: A German Reality Check
• “To Thine Own Self Be True.” Good Advice? Bad Advice?
• Italy Paves Europe’s Way Out of the Crisis
• Politics and Theology: The Metaphysics of the Canadian Party System
• Greed, Capitalism and Human Nature
• Alan Coatsworth — The Hero of Toronto Newsboys’ Interfaith Football
• Honour Killing
• What Is – and What Is Not – Inevitable
• The Surrrender of Viktor Orbán
• Otto Gross — A Charming Anarchist
• Did Hitler Escape from the Berlin Bunker?
• President Newt Gingrich — Could it happen?
• Saying Goodbye to Bernard Greenhouse’s Beloved Cello
• France v. Turkey: A Dispute between NATO Allies Seen in Perspective
• Female Modesty in Israel: The Ultra-Orthodox v. the Rest of Society
• The Falkland Island Dispute Flares Up Again: The Latest Bulletin
• The Appeal of Movies about Disasters at Sea
• And How Are YOU Going to Celebrate the 300th Anniversary of the Birth of Frederick The Great on January 24th?
• The American Religion and the Republican Campaign
• How will Christopher Hitchens be Remembered?
• Technological Breakthroughs: Who Benefits?
• The Ordeal of the Euro: A Surprising Comparison
• Communications + Energy = Third Industrial Revolution
• France Debates Partial Nuclear Phase-out
• A Study in Contrasts: A Man and a Woman — Both Born in Iran
• Canada: America but Better
• “I am not a crook” — German Version
• A Gloomy Prediction for the Future of American Newspapers
• The Paradigm Shift in Luggage: From Muscles to Gravity
• Germany Nearly Won WWI. Why Didn’t It?
• Vital News for Samoans: Last Friday Wiped Off the Calendar
• What Does A Liberal Believe? An Answer for 2012.
• The Armenian Genocide: Debates in France, Israel and Germany
• An Elite Spanning the World: The Views of Arhundhati Roy
• Two Omissions in an Advertisement by the University of Toronto
• Three Variations of Being Wrong: Christopher Hitchens, Michael Ignatieff and Albert Einstein
• In Case You are Giving or Receiving a Kindle for Christmas…
• Bartók Trounces Schubert: A Report from the Musical Battlefront
• Deploring Other People’s Deplorable Taste: A Comment on a Comment
• The King Can Do No Wrong — Except When…
• Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003): The Man who Chronicled Hitler’s Death
• The Future of Capitalism: Reflections of an Elderly Leftist
• Truth and Beauty in the Digital Age — Where are the Standards?
• The Muslim Brothers: The Story is Just Beginning
• “There Is No Such Thing as National Interest Any More”
• A Nobel Laureate’s Advice to Europe’s Leaders
• Public Broadcasting in a Streaming Universe
• Do You Want to Become an Executioner in Spain? Sorry. Too Late.
• Oh Happy Estonia! Such an Enviably Low Level of Debt!
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• 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