From Margaret Wente’s latest column: “If you are a faithful follower of the mainstream media, you will … know that Mr. Harper is guilty of valorizing the military, being indifferent to the plight of downtrodden aboriginals and clamping down (at vast expense) on imaginary crime. He has also created a quasi-totalitarian world called Harperland in… [Read more…]
December 20, 2011
Living and studying in another country among other international students from all over the world has a peculiar effect on your self-image. In Canada, my identity includes a number of descriptors including nerd, feminist, beer lover, academic, and procrastinator. Those same descriptors apply in Edinburgh, but I must also include another one: Canadian. I remain… [Read more…]
December 19, 2011
I’ve flown from Scotland to Ontario for a two-week Christmas with my family. This means that I don’t get to be taken seriously in any environmental discussion for at least the time that the Earth’s forests take to absorb my massive transatlantic carbon emissions, so now that I’m no longer in Scotland writing thousands of… [Read more…]
December 16, 2011
Christopher Hitchens was in the business of disagreement, so I can think of no better way to commemorate his life than to disagree with him. Here it is, then: Christopher Hitchens, depsite his own and others’ assertions to the contrary, was not a militant atheist. Or at the very least, he was a militant atheist… [Read more…]
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