November 2006

Are Interests Really Value-Free?

A salvo from the “realist” school of Canadian foreign relations

Is Small Beautiful?

Canadian book publishing and the Internet could be a happy match.

Dry Ice

Academic takes on the national game are largely offside.

From Propaganda to Scholarship

A new book tracks the development of Canadian military history.

Ms. Clarkson’s Revenge

Anger at Paul Martin prompts a perhaps too-early memoir.

A Vanished Community

A journalist turns to fiction to explore life and racial politics in Halifax’s Africville.

Departing from the Script

Getting stuck between fantasy and reality can produce painfully funny fiction.

The Gamble That Failed

Two Quebec authors examine the risk that René Lévesque ran in the 1980 referendum.

Last Bastion of Dirigisme?

A new book examines science policy in Canada.

The Erosion of Public Goods

And one analyst’s hope that the courts can reinvigorate them.

Trudeau’s Great Leap

A new translation of his Chinese travel diaries prompts both admiration and concern.

Five-and-dime Queen

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Red Painting Shirt (Vaughn Neville)