January–February 2012

Does the Past Have a Future?

It turns out h-i-s-t-o-r-y can be spelled many different ways

Waves of Contempt

What could have been a brilliant legal critique descends into score settling

The Afghan Decade

Two very different views on the success of foreign intervention

The Pierre We Hardly Knew

A major new biography sets the record straight on Trudeau's "idle" years

Love and Marriage Canadian-Style

A trove of letters provides a glimpse into early 20th-century love and courtship

The Ties that Bind

Rational policy alone can't hold communities together, or make them good

A Very Modern Pandemic

Railways, colonial policy, the blood trade and their unintended consequences

The New Bogeymen

A shoot-’em-up chronicle of Mexico’s booming underworld

Artistic Autocrat

The creator of Canada’s National Ballet was charming and ruthless

Monday Morning

Terrorist

Ship's Prow Is the Cubist Slate They Call a Face

Endearing Assassins

Bloody, funny wrangling over life’s biggest questions

Dubai Glitz to Hardware Retail

A satirical take on getting old.

Up in the Air

Diplomatic thinkers seem oddly hesitant about Canada’s role in a wired world

Heroism and Villainy

Revisiting the Great Expulsion — even as Acadians question its relevance

Full Steam Ahead?

In moving toward a clean energy future, unbridled optimism has its pitfalls

Back from War

What do we know about the mental health of returning soldiers?

The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus

On the westward shift of Canadian power and values

Writers in Exile: What Shuts Them Up?

Authors fleeing persecution today are haunted not just by memories, but the ongoing threat of reprisal