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A Website of Political and Cultural Critique, from Canada to the World.

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Politics

This is a section where we will discuss the problem of politics understood in broad terms. This will include, of course, discussions of politics parties, elections, policy matters, and the like. But it can also include discussions of how political questions are imbedded in realms of our lives we rarely think of as politically situated, and can touch on everything from problems we encounter in our everyday lives to how power, knowledge, and desire relate to one another in theoretical, methodological, and practical terms.

Margaret Atwood and the Lessons of Materialism

On the Meaning of Margaret Atwood’s Annex NIMBYism

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Canada at 150: Point to the Dead Bodies (and Keep Pointing)

How Should Progressives Respond to Canada’s 150th Birthday?

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The Aggrieved Conscience: Reading Philip Roth on Inauguration Week

What Can Philip Roth’s Fiction Teach Us As Trump’s Inauguration Looms?

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On the Rough Beast Within

Did W.B. Yeats Predict the Rise of Donald Trump?

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All is Not Lost

Searching For Hope After Trump’s Victory.

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After the Demagogue

What Comes After the Election?

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Feudal Superheroes in an Age of Empire

What do Jason Bourne, Superman, Batman, and Frank Underwood have in common?

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The Anarchic Impulse: The Meaning of Brexit

How Should We Understand the UK’s Decision to Leave the EU?

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A Time for Resolve: #NeverTrump

Why #NeverTrump Remains More Important Now Than Ever Before

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Humanism’s Limit: The Refugee in our Times

Faced with the largest movement of peoples since World War Two, can the principle that “No One is Illegal” still stand?

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