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The 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities , from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is out. The "Shanghai rankings," as they’re...

(with fervent apologies to Kate Atkinson , who, incidentally, is awesome, and if you aren’t reading her, you really should be)...

Alert Inkless commenter jwl notes that Barack Obama’s gas-pump political ads, eerily reminiscent of the Conservative Party of...

From the Final Report on Focus Group Testing of the Content for the Proposed Canadian Museum for Human Rights (note:...

From the Globe’s Andre Picard in Mexico City. Ottawa is determined to shut down Vancouver’s safe-injection site because it’s...

Well, huh. How about that? Apparently, my entirely uninformed theorizing on what might have gone so horribly wrong in Surrey last...

Just guess where this Obama ad is playing. No, guess. Go ahead and guess!! Okay, I’ll tell you. It’s running on wee TV screens on...

Back, for a moment, to David Foster Wallace’s take on John McCain. Near the end of that little book Foster Wallace arrives at his...

Or rather, with seemingly insufficient apologies, judging from the reaction to the Stephen Harper’s latest foray into ethnic...

The Official ITQ In-and-Out Investigation Countdown begins now ! UPDATE: By the way, I’m pretty sure that a House committee having...