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FIRING UP THE SHIRT
"The embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world," declared Ted Kennedy, in a moment of Revolutionary War nostalgia. Or he would have done, if he'd managed [More...]
WHY CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT IT?
A couple of years back, I mentioned the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and received a flurry of lively e-mails. It was Valentine's Day 1989, you'll recall, when the Ayatollah [More...]
FEAR OF THE SAME
I’m thinking of joining the Bloc.
In the end, for whatever reasons, Quebec was the only province prepared to punish the Liberals for Adscam, Flagscam, [More...]
MEANINGLESS MULTILATERALISM
I was heartened to hear, if only according to The Times of London, that George W Bush is planning on overthrowing the Iranian mullahs as soon as November’s election [More...]
SLUMMING FOR PRESIDENT
During their triumphant 1939 tour of Canada, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth took a brief detour south of the border to visit the Roosevelts at Hyde Park. It was the first [More...]
THUNDERBIRDS
You have a tough choice at your local Roxy this week: you can go and see Spider-Man 2, which is a superb example of how to adapt a Sixties pop-culture favourite and get everything right; [More...]
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COMPLACENT, ARROGANT, HUMOURLESS
It was interesting to see Ben Affleck emerge as the Hollywood mascot of the Democratic Convention. The week reminded me of Ben's movie Pearl Harbor: wall-to-wall [More...]
SUMMER STOCK
While The New Criterion takes its July/August break, we're posting a couple of pieces on the shows everybody knows and the fellows who wrote them. Scroll down for Mark's profile of [More...]
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PHILANDERING POLITELY
The Duke of Devonshire, 1920-2004
In Britain, Digby Anderson has just published a pamphlet called All Oiks Now--"oik" being British for a loud, coarse, vulgar, unpleasant, common [More...]
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