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The Treaties

Ottawa negotiated in bad faith

Making a Scene

Experimental film is ready for its close-up

A More Sentimental Man

Michael Ondaatje’s late style

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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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…