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The Patience of Job
James Carson bids us to “reimagine” that St. John Brébeuf, the Jesuit martyr, was “never martyred” but “died for reasons indigenous to the time and place he inhabited, for reasons that rest squarely on the deep beliefs of the people who had welcomed him.” Historian Christopher Blum is not convinced.
Chumped by Trump
Canadians seem puzzled by the improbable rise of Donald Trump, and I find that puzzling indeed. Trump is, I should have thought, the very picture of what an American is, in the eyes of Canadians. He is Sam Slick of Slicksville, a person who could only be an American.
The Real Handmaid's Tale
By Barbara Kay. From our archive: Hitler’s Furies should be read in every Gender Studies program in the West. It treats women with the respect they deserve as complex human beings and the true moral equals of men: equally capable of good and equally capable of evil.
1812 & The Fathers of Confederation
Several Fathers of Confederation had a connection to the War of 1812. Only two generations separated the peace of 1814 from the Charlottetown conference -- the same lapse of time (fifty years) as between 1945 and 1995, when Canadians of all ages celebrated “Victory in Europe."
Israel at Peace
Only when Palestinians give up on their anti-Zionist dream of destruction will they be able to invest their efforts to creating an attractive polity, economy, society, and culture. Only when Palestinians give up destroying can they build, writes Daniel Pipes.