How a volcanic eruption made 1816 the year without a summer
Out of utter devastation, came great enduring art including Frankenstein and Dracula
Brian Bethune
Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
The Italian media has anointed one of their own: Cardinal Angelo Scola
Brian Bethune’s latest from Rome
Everybody is talking about Brazil’s Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer
Brian Bethune’s latest from Rome
On American openness and papal predictions
Brian Bethune’s latest from Rome
Best-known Canadian around the world right now? Marc Ouellet
Brian Bethune reports from Rome as the conclave begins
The war at home
The Canadian front has its day, thanks to the author behind Murdoch Mysteries
Cardinals play hardball
The ever-feverish season of Papal electioneering is already under way with new leaks every day
‘I had the brilliant idea to make her gay’
Ian Hamilton has two fan groups: Chinese-Canadians, and rather a lot of lesbians
Cardinal Marc Ouellet: The Canadian who could be pope
Brian Bethune on the papal contenders
A former NRA man on his conversion to gun control
Former competitive shooter and anti-gun activist Tom Diaz on school murders, political indifference and how the NRA is a paper tiger