Back Issues
October 2012
Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Dmitry Bondarenko.
Dmitry Bondarenko is an artist and freelance illustrator who studied at Sheridan College and OCAD University. He lives, works and makes borscht in Toronto’s East End. Visit dmitryillustration.com.
The Market for Wisdom
Aggregating opinions can help predict everything from corporate sales to elections
Dan GardnerA Dark Dystopia
This petro-history paints modern humans as helpless captives to our own high-tech servants
Alanna Mitchell
Tight Boots and War Crimes
A year’s reflection on the War of 1812, in public and in private
Dennis DuffyA Foucauldian Hangover
Does the French theorist really help explain the Liquor Control Board of Ontario?
Jessica Warner
Echoes in the Cypress Hills
A review of A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
Simon M. Evans
Remaining Human
Three generations of Chilean women affirm life after Pinochet’s regime
Cathy StonehouseWorks of Art on the Art of Work
Two story collections map today’s nine-to-five realities
Joel Deshaye
Churches and States
The paradoxical alliance between libertarian activists and Christian charities
Jonathan Malloy
A Slow-Burning Fire
Canadian feminism’s personal turn, after generations of collective struggle
Rosemary Speirs
Subconscious Seduction
The colourful history—and current understanding—of subliminal messaging
Julie Sedivy