OttawaHistory’s hingesRoger Cohen, in the New York Times , wonders whether Tehran this year, or Tiananmen 20 years ago, could have worked out the way a...
OttawaMoonlighting Wells; and un nouveau bloggeurIf Monday’s slow at work, feel free to check out two outside projects from your Inkless servant. In this month’s Literary Review...
OttawaHey look: Coyne v. Wells on our broken AfghanistanFrom the print edition, this magazine’s national editor and its senior columnist debate the future of Canada in Afghanistan . All...
OttawaWeekend reading: George Orwell, Notes on NationalismThis essay had a huge influence on my thinking when I first read it as an undergraduate. In it, Orwell uses, and admits to...
OttawaPeter Donolo and the Curse of the Mummy’s HandThe Liberal Party of Canada has spent six years faithfully adopting the method of a Hollywood Egyptian emperor
OttawaHey look: And what if Toronto became a cultural suburb of Kitchener?From the magazine, my profile of Edwin Outwater , the very impressive musical director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. He’ll...
CultureStethoscopes at the symphonyArcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry has written a piece based on each musician’s heartbeat
OttawaEleven candlesWe gathered a year ago at a pub off King St. that Jake Richler used to like, though it never did much for me. This wasn’t the...
OttawaCBC’s stand-up actTwo hours of frantic kineticism is exhausting, but the good outweighs the bad in the relaunch of CBC news