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The Perils of Democracy
“THE DECLINE of Democracy.” “Democracy in Peril.” Such themes have been common in the higher journalism in recent years. The DR's John Pepall reviews two books. FROM THE ARCHIVES.
How Good Was Harper? (for Canada's Economy)
By William Robson. Measured against the statist, redistributive aspirations of many on the left, Harper’s record was bad. Measured against the aspirations of many on the right, it was better.
From Katyn to Kamloops
Mass unmarked graves have evil connotations especially in the 20th century. But there is a vast gulf between Kamloops and Katyn, or Babi Yar — writes C.P. Champion
The Barbarians Who Did not Sack the City
The truth is that the rise of Rome would never have occurred if the energies of the nomadic world had been directed westward, writes Dr. Michael R. J. Bonner
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...