GeneralQ&A: Brand CanadaHere’s a link to my Q&A with Nicolas Papadopoulos, business professor at Carleton and expert on the branding of nations.
Generalprint and democracyIn the current edition of the New Yorker, Eric Alterman writes : And so even if one agrees with all of Huffington’s jabs at the...
Generalauthenticity watch: slow foodOne of my favourite sci-fi writers, Bruce Sterling (if you haven’t read Schismatrix, put down this blog and go read it now), has a...
Generalsequitur watchIn yesterday’s FT , Maurice Saatchi writes a clmn arguing that the perennial complaint that politics doesn’t operate enough along...
Generalbeing ken whyteMy Q&A with Daniel Pipes , in today’s Ottawa Citizen. For anyone interested, Pipes is in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto this...
Generalliquids and solventsSometimes I wish I’d gone into economics instead of philosophy, not just because my salary might possibly have a few more zeroes...
Generalthe consumer always paysI don’t get much mail, except when I post something negative about organic produce or suggest that people who live in the suburbs...
Generalwhatever we leave behindThe events of 9/11 caused a crisis for novelists, who suddenly found themselves a) out-imagined by a group of murderous thugs, and...