CultureWhy baseball lends itself to philosophical speculationAuthor Mark Kingwell calls baseball ’a game...whose main feature is inaction punctuated by outbursts’
OttawaThe House: Further readingFor their assistance when I was putting together last week’s piece on the House —and for the indispensable sites they...
OttawaOn the question of cameras in the House of CommonsWHERRY: Removing them would be an admission of defeat
Ottawa’More functional and hence more meaningful’The Public Policy Forum is set to convene a day’s discussion on the state of Parliamentary discourse, with specific attention to...
UncategorizedMonster hospitalSome thoughts now on Mark Kingwell’s recent essay , not necessarily in response, but at least inspired by. Andrew Potter has...
UncategorizedThe software of democracyMark Kingwell’s essay on political civility, to which I referred last week, is now online .
UncategorizedThis actually happenedMark Kingwell has an essay about political civility in the new issue of the Walrus that I encourage you all to read—though it...
BooksGlenn Gould was also a brilliant philosopherFrom 2009: Mark Kingwell on the key to the pianist’s genius
OttawaTable mannersJoanne Chianello reports on a speech this week in Ottawa by Mark Kingwell. Ignatieff writes that "if our politics are good, we can...