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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Jack Layton

Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party, died on August 22. This passage is excerpted from his foreword to Canadian Idealism and the Philosophy of Freedom: C.B. Macpherson, George Grant and Charles Taylor, by Robert Meynell (McGill‐Queen’s University Press, 2011). Reproduced with permission.

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Jack Layton

Canadian Idealism

The NDP’s late leader recalls his discovery of the ideas linking Tommy Douglas, George Grant and Charles Taylor October 2011
Readers of this book, Canadian Idealism and the Philosophy of Freedom: C.B. Macpherson, George Grant and Charles Taylor, are fortunate; they will be exploring the tradition of Canadian philosophical idealism. I was at least as fortunate, years ago, because my initial contact with the subject was firsthand and personal, and had a profound impact on…