"It is worth explaining that Jean Chretien embodied one of the central principles of Canadian politics, which is that for all that the world thinks of us as nice and polite, we inevitably vote for whichever political leader seems like the most capable bastard. Chretien was a ridiculously capable bastard."Just one insight from A Guide to the Upcoming Canadian Election for Foreigners.
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That's what one expert said about the biggest Anglo-Saxon treasure trove ever found -- a huge collection of items, many of them stripped...
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...if you are very, very rich. (Most mss. of this age and quality are in national or university libraries and are not for sale at any price... -
A dissent from the Globe and Mail's endorsement: Anyone but Harper.
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That's what one expert said about the biggest Anglo-Saxon treasure trove ever found -- a huge collection of items, many of them stripped...
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Salon was smart enough to int erview Eric Foner, the leading historian of Reconstruction in the post-US-Civil-War era. A sample. One-hun...
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Patrick Neilsen Hayden at Making Light (thanks Brad DeLong): John Keegan, author of the excellent The Face of Battle (1976) and many other...
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It has been a while since I blogged anything on the Stone Age. To remedy this terrible lack, let me link to a post from Judith Weingarten at... -
The Journal of Democratic Theory is a new web-based journal which is financing free distribution by charging authors a fee. It will be int...
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Stephen Chrisomalis at Glossographia revisits an old debate. A couple of tasty passages: I do not believe there are any grounds at all to ...
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That's what I sometimes think when I read the news out of the USA. The most recent exhibit is a column by Bob Herbert in the New York T...
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A friend of mine alerted me to the existence of a PhD dissertation (Texas A&M) on chivalry and masculinity. I have just had a quick lo...
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