Reviews
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Lincoln’s Prophet
A review of George Fetherling's Walt Whitman’s Secret: A Novel
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Where Have All The Stories Gone?
A review of A Reader on Reading, by Alberto Manguel
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Getting Past “Yes” or “No”
A review of Multicultiphobia, by Phil Ryan
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Bridging the Divide
A review of Donna Kennedy-Glans' Unveiling the Breath: One Woman’s Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender Equality
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Hitting the Road
A literary car-trip across Canada
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Darwinists and Divinity
A review of Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science, by Michael Ruse
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Diderot Derivative
A review of Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil
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Culture Clash
A review of The Authenticity Hoax: How We Got Lost Finding Ourselves, by Andrew Potter, and More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College Is Crap and Idiots Think They’re Right, by Laura Penny
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The Thinking Man’s Marxist
A review of Why Not Socialism?, by G.A. Cohen
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Untying the Knot
A review of A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott
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Smart Bombs and Sex Robots
A review of Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology As We Know It, by Peter Nowak
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Opportunity or Temptation?
A review of Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property RIghts by Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara, and André Le Dressay
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A Middling Marvel
A review of Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown by Chris McDonald
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Different Pipers, Different Tunes
A review of Selling Out: Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market, by Howard Woodhouse
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Strange Bedfellows
A review of Canadian Maverick: The Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand, by William Kaplan
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Words of an Artist
A review of Solitary Raven: The Essential Writings of Bill Reid, edited by Robert Bringhurst
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The Sexes and the Sciences
A review of The Bold and the Brave: A History of Women in Science and Engineering, by Monique Frize
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A Pragmatic Manifesto
A review of Jean-François Lisée's Pour une gauche efficace
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Blind Oracles
A review of Florin Diacu's Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe
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Troubling Tactics
A review of Michael R. Marrus's Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s
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The Real Tariq Ramadan
A review of The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective, by Gregory Baum
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The Myth of Chindia
A review of Wendy Dobson's Gravity Shift: How Asia’s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the Twenty-First Century
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The Not-So-Mighty Dollar
A review of Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirschner's The Future of the Dollar
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We’re Still Watching
A review of Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–2000, by John English
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Palace on the Rideau
A review of Sarah Jennings' Art and Politics: The History of the National Arts Centre
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A Dystopia Sketched in Crayon
A review of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood
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The End of the World As We Know It?
A review of Peter A. Victor's Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster, and Jeff Rubin's Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
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A Dying Breed
A review of Scott Taylor's Unembedded: Two Decades of Maverick War Reporting and Terry Gould's Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Places
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No Problem Here
A review of Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness
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A Loaded Anniversary
A review of D. Peter MacLeod's Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham; of Jacques Lacoursière's and Hélène Quimper's Québec ville assiégée; of Joy Carroll's Wolfe and Montcalm: Their Lives, Their Times, and the Fate of a Continent; of Gérard Saint-Martin's Les plaines d'Abraham: L'adieu à la Nouvelle-France?; and of Stephen Manning's Quebec: The Story of Three Sieges.
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Our Feudal Immigration Policy
A review of The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality, by Ayelet Shachar
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A Digital Trojan Horse
A review of Sheeple: Caucus Confidential in Stephen Harper's Ottawa, by Garth Turner
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Revisiting a Powerful Myth
A review of The Children’s Crusade: Medieval History, Modern Mythistory by Gary Dickson and Children's Crusade by Murray Schafer
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Unbalanced Thoughts
A review of Peter Russell's and Lorne Sossin's Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis.
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Bad Faith?
A review of David Novak's In Defense of Religious Liberty.
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Pick Your Antidote
Short reviews of ten books past and present.
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Thought in Action
A review of Norman Bethune, by Adrienne Clarkson and “Norman Bethune: trail of Solidarity — La huella solidaria” at the McCord Museum of Canadian History
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Trial by Anecdote
A review of Ezra Levant's Shakedown:How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights
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Creating Another Einstein
A review of Howard Burton's First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science
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Intellectual Sleight of Hand
A review of True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada, by Michael Ignatieff
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Distilling Mute Despair
A review of Burma Chronicles, by Guy Delisle
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Realistic Fortune Telling
A review of Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years, by Vaclav Smil
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Are We a Métis Nation?
A review of A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada, by John Ralston Saul
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Inside the Wire
A review of Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants, edited by Kevin Patterson and Jane Warren; Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford; Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point in Canada’s Afghan Mission by Lee Windsor, David Charters and Brent Wilson; On Assignment in Afghanistan: Maritimers at War by Chris Lambie (text) and Christian Laforce (photography); Contact Charlie: The Canadian Army, the Taliban and the Battle That Saved Afghanistan by Chris Wattie; and The Long Walk Home: Paul Franklin’s Journey from Afghanistan by Liane Faulder
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Private Thoughts in Public Language
A review of JPod by Douglas Coupland, The Language of Others by Clare Morrall, Daniel Isn’t Talking by Marti Leimbach, Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern, and So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in “Pride and Prejudice” by Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer
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What’s Race Got to Do with It?
A review of Gerard W. Boychuk's National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory and the Roots of Difference
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The New Canadian Establishment
A review of Gordon Pitts' Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite
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Dying in Hell
A review of Passchendaele, a film by Paul Gross; of Norman Leach's Passchendaele: Canada’s Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders; and of Paul Gross's novel Passchendaele
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Haiti's Fallible Hero
A review of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment, by Peter Hallward
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Moguls of Winnipeg
A review of Izzy: The Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada’s Media Mogul, by Peter C. Newman, and Asper Nation: Canada’s Most Dangerous Media Company, by Marc Edge
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Canada’s Black Chamber
A review of Kurt F. Jensen's Cautious Beginnings: Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939–51
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Delicious Canadian Ham
A review of Up Till Now: The Autobiography, by William Shatner with David Fisher and In Spite of Myself: A Memoir, by Christopher Plummer
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Does Technology Make Us Do It?
A review of The End of Ethics in a Technological Society, by Lawrence E. Schmidt with Scott Marratto
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What Do We Owe?
A review of Margaret Atwood’s Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
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Spiritual Dissent
An online review of Falun Gong and the Future of China, by David Ownby
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An Informed Citizenry?
An online review of Communication in China: Political Economy, Power and Conflict, by Yuezhi Zhao
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The Karaoke Classics
A review of Daniel A. Bell's China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society
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Back to the Seventies
An online review of Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister's Life in the Canadian Bush, by Mark Frutkin
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Control-Freak Kingdom
A review of Donald J. Savoie's Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom
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Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief
A review of Jacques Poitras' Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy and David Adams Richards' Lord Beaverbrook
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The Year of Anne
A review of Budge Wilson’s Before Green Gables, Deidre Kessler’s Anne of Green Gables: Stories for Young Readers, Don Harron’s Anne of Green Gables, The Musical: 101 Things You Didn’t Know, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, Irene Gammel’s Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic and Elizabeth Waterston’s Magic Island: The Fictions of L.M. Montgomery
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Political Islam Versus Secularism
A review of Tarek Fatah's Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
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The Dove is Never Free
A review of James Orbinski's An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century and Richard Heinzl's Cambodia Calling: A Memoir from the Frontlines of Humanitarian Aid
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The Noisy Christian Right
A review of Michael Wagner's Standing on Guard for Thee: The Past, Present and Future of Canada’s Christian Right
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Are We Being Helpful?
A review of Patricia Marchak’s No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes Against Humanity
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Closed Off from the World
A review of Daphne Bramham’s The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect
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The Holocaust in Hungary
A review of Joseph Kertes's Gratitude
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Politics as Spectacle
A review of Andrew F. Cooper’s Celebrity Diplomacy
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When Women Rule
A review of Blema S. Steinberg's Women in Power: The Personality and Leadership Style of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher
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"Joga Bonito"
A review of Alan Twigg’s Full-Time: A Soccer Story
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The Ceaseless Search for Justice
A review of Erna Paris' The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America
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Canada's Most Memorable Poems: The LRC Contributors' List (Part 2)
A special feature
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The Adventurers Are Back
A review of James Raffan's Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company and Deirdre Simmons' Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives
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The Burden of Isolation
A review of John Stape’s The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
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Canada’s Most Memorable Poems: The LRC Contributors’ List (Part 1)
A special feature
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Past as Prologue
An online review of John W. Dean's The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers - John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Goodman, Jane Jacobs, Eric W. Kierans, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dystopic Utopia?
A review of Michael Adams' Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism
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Darwin on My Mind
A review of Ronald de Sousa's Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind
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Alice in Afghanistan
A review of Janice Gross Stein's and Eugene Lang's The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar
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Pages from the Conservative Handbook
A review of Tom Flanagan’s Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power
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Pages from the Liberal Handbook
A review of Warren Kinsella's The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs and Anyone Who Wants to Win
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Sympathetic, Generous ... and Tough
A review of Elaine Kalman Naves' Robert Weaver: Godfather of Canadian Literature
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Conscience Aside
An online review of John W. Dean's Conservatives Without Conscience and Robert Altemeyer's The Authoritarians
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Your Brain: Flexible or Hard-Wired?
An online review of Norman Doidge's The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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Promoting Democracy Abroad
A review of Advancing Canada’s Role in International Support for Democratic Development Report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development House of Commons, July 2007
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Campus Navel Gazing
A review of James Côté's and Anton Allahar's Ivory Tower Blues: A University System in Crisis and George Fallis' Multiversities, Ideas and Democracy
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Great Disappointments
A special feature
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Out, Damned Spot!
A review of The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, by Katherine Ashenburg
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Audacious Undertaking
A review of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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The Politics of the Ordinary
A review of Richard Poplak's Ja, No, Man: Growing Up White in Apartheid-Era South Africa
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Fantasy Foreign Policy
A review of Michael Byers' Intent for a Nation: What Is Canada For?
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Clearing the Air on Climate Change
A review of Jeffrey Simpson's, Mark Jaccard's, and Nic Rivers' Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge
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The Wisdom of Bones
A review of Tim Bowling's The Bone Sharps
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The Hypocrisy Game
A review of Rob Beamish's and Ian Ritchie's Fastest, Highest, Strongest: A Critique of High-Performance Sport
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The Rise of the Pyjamahadeen
A review of Michael Keren's Blogosphere: The New Political Arena
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The Post-Celluloid Era
A review of Hervé Fischer's The Decline of the Hollywood Empire
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POW! BLAM! ZOWIE! eh?
A review of John Bell's Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe
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Happy Birthday, C.C.!
A special feature
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Are Interests Really Value Free?
A review of Dreamland: How Canada's Pretend Foreign Policy Has Undermined Sovereignty, by Roy Rempel
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The LRC 100 (Part Two)
A special feature
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The LRC 100 (Part One)
A special feature
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The Book Lover's Tale
A review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi
Online Originals
Lincoln’s Prophet
A review of George Fetherling's Walt Whitman’s Secret: A Novel
Untying the Knot
A review of A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott
The Winter of a Hundred Books
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