Andrew Potter

Even NASA sees it as a case study in isolation

In my column for the print version of the mag this week I raise some philosophicalish questions about the legal status of the...

In the dead of winter 2008, while I was working late at the Ottawa Citizen office, some anonymous workmen came in, took down the...

I’m surprised Tom Kent’s piece in yesterday’s Globe and Mail didn’t get more uptake. It’s really amazing how much the current...

Honestly, what is up with the Mounties :

How the left abandoned its long-standing hostility to the liberal state

That’s the title of Tom Watson’s feature in the new issue of Canadian Business. It looks at how the big players in the Canadian...

I finished Sebastian Junger’s War last night, the companion book to the documentary Restrepo that he made with Tim...

My column for the print mag this week takes a break from Tory-baiting and looks at the biological assumptions that underly the...

Whether alien culture resembles our own depends on one big question: do they have sex?