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Not dead yet

by Chad Christie

The world of magazines and newspapers is being crushed under the light weight of online journalism, but the outcome is still far from certain

Last year, both Newsday and the short-lived Rosie magazine attempted to compete with new media by overstating their circulation numbers to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). Newsday staff were employing a computer program entitled "Fudge ABC."

More public debt, please

by Kevin Potvin

The only reason the ruling class says we must reduce debt is because that’s how they consolidate more power to themselves, and in so doing, they undermine democracy and civilization

It was not ancient men in togas who conceived of the democracy we enjoy today. It was medieval merchants interested in backing the plans of local municipal governments.

'Peak'-a-boo

by Dan Crawford

An interview with a ghost from many Christmases past: The Right Honorable Edward Schreyer, newly-declared candidate for Parliament, who threatens to reveal the big secret

No one would surely argue the point, the point being that, thus far, the media has given very disproportionately small attention to what I consider to be one of the most dramatic issues looming on the horizon.

Time, gentlemen

by Michael Nenonen

The darkness of the holiday season opens a window onto divine contemplation of sacred time

Syriana

by Junius

Film makes reality unbelievable

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

Brokeback Mountain and No Rest For the Brave

Books we're reading this month

reviewed by Kevin Potvin

The Mind and the Market and Aristotle's Children

It's in the walls, it's under the floors

by Kevin Potvin

A new book and community course promises new insights into one of our most bedeviling problems: addiction

On a society-wide level, rates of addiction go up when that society’s social glue is dissolved.

Letters to the Republic

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