Scripturient: Musings on Poets and Poetry

For me, reading the American literary critic, Harold Bloom, is often like wading in molasses. Intellectual molasses, to be sure, but slow going nonetheless. His writing is thick with difficult ideas and difficult words. Bloom’s historical reach, his knowledge and his understanding of the tapestry of literature far outstrip mine,

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Canadian Dimension: In a compelling call to arms, Seth Klein presents inspiring vision of Canada’s response to climate crisis

A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency Seth Klein ECW Press, 2020 In May 2019, the The Guardian made an important decision when it decided to stop using the neutral terms “climate change” and “global warming” and start using terms that more accurately reflect what’s going on—“climate emergency”

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Canadian Dimension: The Jakarta Method: How to destabilize and control the Third World

The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins Public Affairs, 2020 Today, the “First World” typically refers to imagined “Western” countries plus Japan, otherwise known deferentially as “developed countries.” The “Second World,” those countries associated with the defunct Soviet Union, has

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