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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Donald Carveth

Donald Carveth is a professor of sociology and social and political thought at York University’s Glendon College. A training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis, he is past editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychoanalyse. Many of his publications, including his recent essays on guilt and its evasion, are available on his website.

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Donald Carveth

Conscience Aside

Authoritarianism in the U.S. and Canada. January–February 2008
John W. Dean was White House counsel to U.S. president Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Sensing he was being set up to become the Watergate scapegoat, he cooperated with investigators and implicated administration officials, including himself and the president. He pled guilty to the obstruction of justice and received a sentence later adjusted to time served cooperating with the Watergate special prosecutor and testifying in the trials of other…