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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

John Duffy

John Duffy was a principal at StrategyCorp and the author of Fights of Our Lives: Elections, Leadership and the Making of Canada.

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Remaking Political Life

From GMOs to cloning, new technology promises to shake up society—and old party loyalties December 2012
“The real force in our time is no longer politics, but science,” declared Israeli president Shimon Peres last spring in Ottawa. This remarkable statement from a Nobel Peace laureate, whose vast and distinguished career has been devoted to the high politics of parties, parliaments and peace talks, can be seen as a turning of the…