Issues
November 2006
Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Andrew Stevenson
Andrew Stevenson is a Toronto illustrator whose portfolio is available online at www.squidgystudios.com.
Are Interests Really Value-Free?
A salvo from the “realist” school of Canadian foreign relations
Jennifer Welsh
From Propaganda to Scholarship
A new book tracks the development of Canadian military history
Roger Hall
A Vanished Community
A journalist turns to fiction to explore life and racial politics in Halifax’s Africville
James W. St.G. WalkerDeparting from the Script
Getting stuck between fantasy and reality can produce painfully funny fiction
Val Ross
The Gamble That Failed
Two Quebec authors examine the risk that René Lévesque ran in the 1980 referendum
Graham Fraser
The Erosion of Public Goods
And one analyst’s hope that the courts can reinvigorate them
Stephen LeDrew
Trudeau’s Great Leap
A new translation of his Chinese travel diariesprompts both admiration and concern
David Curtis Wright