Colby Cosh

FT’s Christopher Caldwell thoroughly exposes one of my favourite rhetorical/opinion-writing stunts and does it to death: On and on...

Arms Control Wonk presents a table of worldwide nuclear tests by decade . 1980s total: 439. 1990s total: 64 (or so). Final grand...

Historian Michael Behiels commences his Citizen op-ed on the present constitutional emergency by describing the prime minister as...

The terror attack on Northwest 253: another blow to the "Poverty is the root cause of terrorism" crowd —not that it will shut...

Q: Is Jeffrey Dvorkin’s analysis of the new defamation-law scene the product of expired eggnog ? His piece entitled "Libel law...

This Guardian story about holiday shopping leaves the slightly unsettling impression that "Boxing Day", for the purposes of...

As the content of the Supreme Court’s "responsible communication" ruling propagates , I am seeing and hearing a lot of despairing...

Don’t expect much from your journalism elite today, citizens: we’ll be busy celebrating our early Christmas gift from the Supreme...

A strong late entry in the "significant word of 2009" sweepstakes would be the noun and verb "conlang". A conlang is any...

Turns out the U.S. President’s Nobel prize wasn’t the only one to generate controversy this year . Nerd-grade coverage of the...