Andrew Potter

A few weeks ago, Tyler Cowen challenged bloggers to list the books that have influenced them the most. It’s become a hot little...

Baba Brinkman is back in the news: His new song, Off That, is an attack on superstition and pseudoscience, and it has gone viral...

Some professors at the University of Regina are upset about the school’s participation in a scholarship program that pays the...

A new Newsweek/Pro Publica investigation into the training of the ANA is all kinds of grim: How bad is it? The only bright spot in...

Mark Kingwell’s latest essay says Canadian civility is in decline

Quelle surprise : the NHTSA has found that the *other* case of a runaway Prius from last week (coming to the end of a...

Some new stuff on Afghanistan: First, go read Brian Stewart’s latest piece on the cone of silence that the Canadian military...

Yesterday’s FT has a letter to the editor from Thomas Moore of the Hoover (duh) Institution, and his subject is the difficulty...

This week’s must-read on the Afghan file, I think, is Brian Stewart’s column about the growing sense that Karzai is more a part of...

In a former life I was a soccer goalkeeper. I was pretty good – strong shotstopping skills and good distribution, bit weak on...