Reading Time: 3 minutes Beating-up on Britain’s Sir Mark Sykes and France’s Francois Georges-Picot for today’s mess in the Middle East is just plain silly
Category: Books
Integration just isn’t what it used to be
Reading Time: 3 minutes Assimilation has become a dirty word, with anyone who advocates it liable to be accused of promoting cultural genocide
Christmas books for the history buff
Reading Time: 3 minutes If your Christmas shopping list includes a history buff, here’s a handful of 2015 titles that will definitely solve your problem
Intuition may not add up, but it works
Reading Time: 4 minutes The power of intuition flies in the face of western society’s current fascination with mathematical algorithms
Eisenhower’s heart attack and the state of presidential medicine
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even the most powerful man on earth doesn’t always get the best medical care
Robert Conquest, the man who was right
Reading Time: 3 minutes Apologists for the Soviet Union and Stalin in particular, according to Conquest, suffered a form of “mental aberration”
Trudeau, Mulcair autobiographies election season pap
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trudeau’s autobiography reads like it was written by committee; Mulcair’s is not telling the whole story
Saul Bellow was born 100 years ago this month
Reading Time: 4 minutes To Canadians’ shame, Canada’s greatest novelist’s centenary has been met with silence
Are we reaching Peak Everything?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The short answer is: not even close