Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jonn Elledge discusses how the right in the UK (like in the U.S. and Canada) is building its public messaging around explicit racism and…
bigotry
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Thomas Zimmer sorts through the significance of a particularly arbitrary week from the Trump regime. Lauren Gambino reports on an assessment by former…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Noah Berlatsky writes about the dangers of treating the existence of marginalized groups - rather than the bigots seeking to dehumanize them - as…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Simone Zhenting Mao discusses how inequality and concentration of wealth are at the root of Canada's economic stagnation. And Robert P. Beschel Jr.…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tom Engelhardt notes that Donald Trump's approach to the world at large has turned into one of seeking to exercise arbitrary power abroad…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Labour Day reading.- Alec Rhodes studies the immense lifetime returns on a unionized career. David Dayen exposes how anti-union firms are encouraging unscrupulous employers to engage…
what i’m reading: two by two favourite authors: part two: zadie smith’s the fraud
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I recently read novels by two of my favourite authors, Roddy Doyle and Zadie Smith. I wrote about The Women Behind the Door…
what i’m reading: two by two favourite authors: part two: zadie smith’s the fraud
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I recently read novels by two of my favourite authors, Roddy Doyle and Zadie Smith. I wrote about The Women Behind the Door…
day 12: tulsa: greenwood rising, plus more street art
This morning we opted not to wake up early to stand in line for baked goods, choosing a slower morning over local colour. We didn't even fulfill our alternate intention…
day 12: tulsa: greenwood rising, plus more street art
This morning we opted not to wake up early to stand in line for baked goods, choosing a slower morning over local colour. We didn't even fulfill our alternate intention…
day 8: tulsa: a drive through kansas, a walking tour, and a sudden change of plans
"The Golden Driller" is as tall asthe Statue of Liberty, sans pedestal.Yesterday we got an earlier start, and drove through the state of Kansas to Tulsa. When I was planning…
day 8: tulsa: a drive through kansas, a walking tour, and a sudden change of plans
"The Golden Driller" is as tall asthe Statue of Liberty, sans pedestal.Yesterday we got an earlier start, and drove through the state of Kansas to Tulsa. When I was planning…
day 6: kansas city: the negro leagues baseball museum is great but has problems
Yesterday we took our time in the morning, then headed back out to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, housed in the same building as the American Jazz Museum. What was…
the residential school denier who won’t face voters — and the party that stands by him
Aaron Gunn, the Conservative candidate for North Island-Powell River (my riding), is a bigot and a residential school denier. Pierre Poilievre stands by him, denying the denialism, claiming that the…
greg palast: trump lost — and our most hallowed media didn’t tell us
Allan recently shared with me a sobering piece by Greg Palast. It illustrates so much of what is wrong with both the US's fake electoral system and the major media.…
a problem with a hero: the antisemitism of george orwell
I've written many times about my views on the practice of shunning certain art or entertainment based on the morals or habits of the creator. In short, I don't do…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jared Yates Sexton discusses the Trump-Musk plot to replace any remnants of U.S. democracy with an oligarchy. Josh Marshall examines the mechanisms put…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Paul Krugman discusses how Donald Trump and Elon Musk are severing the U.S.' ties around the world. And Eamon James and Dan Mangan…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Joe Lo reports on Oxfam's researching that the global 1% have already burned through more than their fair share of a sustainable carbon budget…