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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Positive-Sum Politics

Beyond entrenched divisions in the United States and Canada

Alex Usher

Alex Usher is president of Higher Education Strategy Associates, a consultancy based in Toronto.

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Campus Navel Gazing

Two insider books ponder the future of the university December 2007
In any area of public policy one cares to mention, there will almost certainly be a book published this year decrying its present state. Publishers, for obvious commercial reasons, tend to focus on policy tomes that foretell some form of imminent doom. The actual subject matter is barely relevant: cities, hospitals, schools—all of them have their own books suggesting that things are going to hell in a…