Accidental Deliberations

Assorted content to end your week. - Alex Himelfarb reviews  Quinn Slobodian's Crack-Up Capitalism as a valuable account of the myths a...

This and that for your Thursday reading. - Tim Loh discusses how Europe's premature end to public health measures is resulting in anoth...

This and that for your Sunday reading. - Gary Younge writes about the need to respond to a bleak reality with the dedication to imagine a...

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Scott Gilmore discusses how Canada is actually backsliding in some crucial development goals. A...

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - David Dayen highlights the treatment of workers as the most fundamental difference between Scan...

Luke Savage is right to point out that Canada's permanent campaign has merely taken on a different dynamic under the Trudeau Libs, rath...

This and that for your Thursday reading. - Paul Edwards discusses the availability of a gradual transition to clean energy while avoiding ...

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Paul Mason weighs in on how income and wealth inequality spill over into every corner of a pers...

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Ian Welsh discusses how our problems with poverty and inequality arise out of artific...

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Michael Hurley and Sam Gindin discuss the need for workers to organize to reverse the trend of...

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Jim Stanford kicks off the must-read responses to the Cons' budget with a modest l...

This and that for your Thursday reading. - Alison picks up on Armine Yalnizyan's important question as to whether the Cons have a Pla...

This and that for your Sunday reading. - Simon Wren-Lewis connects the UK's counterproductive austerity program to the lack of any wa...

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Ezra Klein discusses how a corporate focus on buybacks and dividends rather than actually inv...

I haven't seen anybody else question the most self-congratulatory aspect of Stephen Harper's position on a new Iraq war, and at lea...

Having earlier dealt with Stephen Harper's attempt to justify war by building up hatred and hype toward ISIS, I'll note the other m...

Money to extend and improve the lives of Canadian citizens is never available, and the need for funding precludes any discussion of the bene...

Assorted content to end your week. - Following up on yesterday's column , Michael Harris offers his take on how Stephen Harper refuse...

Here , on how leaders who stand up to hysterical calls to abandon peace and human rights in the name of fleeting threats tend to be vindicat...

Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Aaron Wherry reviews what the last week has told us about the functioning (or absence thereo...