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Israel and Palestine: Exploding the Myths
Historical denial, Arab propaganda, liberal guilt, and anti-Semitism serve to legitimize a demand for a sovereign Palestinian state where none has ever existed. The claim of "apartheid" is only the latest charge in the effort to delegitimize Israel.
How to Think About the Canadian Crown
By Geoffroy Boulanger A large majority of Canadians have absolutely no idea — or, at best, very little understanding — of the role of the Crown in Canada and our system, or indeed how fortunate we are ...
No Ordinary Men
Review by C. P. Champion Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman. Charles Williams. Biteback, 2019. Comprehensive Judgment and Absolute Selflessness: Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship. John von Heyking. St. Augustine’s Press, 2018. SIR MAXWELL AITKEN, the 1st Baron Beaverbrook, was perhaps the most influential Canadian of the Second World War. As Churchill’s closest friend before and during the Battle of Britain, “Max,” the New Brunswick-born newspaper magnate and entrepreneur, British Conservative M.P., cabinet minister in two wars, and envoy to Stalin, was, at a key moment, the Prime Minister’s intimate daily companion over dinner or, later, brandy. He...
Looking Ahead to the Iron Lady—in 1928
More than 90 years ago, in 1928, Hilaire Belloc described the then-inconceivable possibility of an iron-willed female Prime Minister of England in a satirical novel that was, remarkably, set in 1979.
The Many Plot Holes of Sam George
Is Sam George’s memoir “unflinchingly honest account of his time at St. Paul’s Indian Residential School”? Or did Sam George conceal and distort relevant information? Nina Green reviews the book.