Politics and its Discontents

I am currently reading a book by Michael Lewis called Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of A New Tycoon. A story about Samuel Bankman Fried ...

Americans are a strange and contradictory lot, to put it mildly. They claim (not unlike a certain candidate running for the leadership of th...

If our thoughts have been able, even briefly, to break out of their ongoing obsession with Covid-19 and death, we will have realized a cou...

During this time of crisis, it is easy to forget other, equally vital issues and the fact that the problems we currently confront do not e...

H/t Theo Moudakis

I remember in 1975 seeing the film Jaws . Like most people, it terrified me, so much so that it was many year before I got up the courage to...

That's the name of a new series which, in the coming weeks, will look at and evaluate the climate-change platforms of each of our politi...

To the untutored and blunt mind, the world is black and white. Incapable of nuanced thinking, it apprehends things only as they immediately ...

I sometimes feel that many Canadians are complacent about climate change, assuming that we will somehow be protected from the worst of its e...

Too bad we can't muster some of that in North America.