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Saudi Arabia and the Canadian connection: the Al-Huwaider and Al-Oyouni case
Wajeha Al-Howaider The Saudi human rights activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider and her colleague Fawzia Al-Oyouni, who have fought for such causes as the right of women in her country to drive, have been...
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Tweeting Leo Strauss: the Homosocial & the Homoerotic
Socrates and Alcibiades by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1816) I did a series of tweets about Leo Strauss, homosociality and homoeroticism. Because people expressed interest in seeing them in one...
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Rob Ford and Gangsterism
1. A few thoughts, recycled from twitter, about Rob Ford and gangsterism. 2. This Josh Marshall post gives good summary of where things stand in Ford case:...
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The Problems with Patterson’s Heinlein Biography
Robert A. Heinlein I reviewed the late William Patterson’s new biography of the writer Robert Heinlein for the New Republic. Because the New Republic is a general interest magazine, I focused my...
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“Smile and Move On”: Paul Godfrey on Racism
On Sunday, the Toronto Sun ran the above cartoon (by Anthony Donato) on this cartoon of Olivia Chow. Chow denounced the cartoon as “racist” and “sexist” (two characterizations I agree with). I thought...
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The New Republic & Gender: Some notes
I keep hoping someone (ideally a woman) will write an essay on the New Republic and gender. These notes might be useful for that writer and are offered as a spur to thought: 1. On March 1, 1983 Arthur...
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Genocide as “Sanity and Cultural Health”: National Review on India
I’m working on an article about Dinesh D’Souza, during which I came across an old article from National Review that I thought are worth quoting. Here are some excerpts from Jeffrey Hart’s review of...
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Tidiness, the state, and us
“Loading Bay (VII)” by Ian Garrick Mason (2015) They pushed the vendors out of Ramses Square this year. Out of other places too, notes The Guardian in an article on street trading in Cairo – a...
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Portraiture and time
“Lisa” (Ian Garrick Mason, 2015) It took me a long time to come to portraiture as an art form. I began taking photographs systematically only five years ago or so; equipped with a Blackberry provided...
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Glimpsing beauty
“Stephanie in the city” (Ian Garrick Mason, 2015) Last weekend my friend Stephanie and I went out for evening drinks, before which we did a forty-five minute twilight shoot on the sidewalks of...
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