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From Katyn to Kamloops
The Barbarians Who Did not Sack the City
China, the Virus, and Conspiracies
By Robert Sibley Originally published in the Spring-Summer 2020 edition of THE DORCHESTER REVIEW, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 95-104. If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. — Joseph Goebbels AS CONSPIRACY THEORIES go, it is a good one. In mid-February last year Arkansas Senator (R.) Tom Cotton made headlines when he suggested that the source of the coronavirus spreading around the world was an accident at a Chinese bioweapons lab in Wuhan and not the city’s seafood market as widely believed. “We … know that just a...
Montreal's Mohawk Myth
By Frédéric Bastien Changing the name of Amherst Street is all about creating a fake “usable past” that fits the guilt-based stereotype of settler-native relations. And the Mohawks came from upstate New York.
The Age of Anomie