At 11:54 EDT this morning we officially hit the summer solstice (winter solstice in the southern hemisphere). I used to wait for the exact minute and imagined that I could feel the earth start to… Continue reading…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre#/media/File:Mtl_dec6_plaque.jpg 29 years ago today. I remember. 14 women dead, 15 injured, plus suicides reported after the massacre, directly tied to the stress of these events. I was teaching at Trent, in Peterborough, and… Continue reading…
From June 19, 2017
Just heard that an old friend passed away. Phil Merklinger, the other half of the philosophy department for the entire time I was at Augustana University College in Camrose. And, besides… Continue reading…
From Jan. 9, 2017
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2017/01/no-core-identity
I posted this comment on someone else’s thread (h/t Ross Emmett) and I thought it might be worth posting here.
The article has a kind of… Continue reading…
From Jan. 4, 2017
Canada as postnational? Maybe. It’s at least a useful fiction, and perhaps the only place in the world where that fiction might be aspirational, as this article suggests. I… Continue reading…
