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Politics in the passive voice
All the world's a stage and the meta-narrative has become our God. Long live the new flesh.
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Bay Street's big red tent
Amid Mark Carney's triumph at the Liberal Party of Canada's leadership convention, the politics of dynasty, deference, and elite identity reigned…
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Utopian exploitation
Tech barons want you to work till you drop, then replace you with machines
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The big, beautiful empire at the end of history
Interpreting Trumpism 2.0
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February 2025

How not to talk about politics
Wonk policy discourse revels in its own arbitrary complexity while eliding fundamental political and ideological questions
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The centre (right) will not hold
The left, not centrism or moderate conservatism, is our best and only firewall against the extreme right
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The problem with Carney-ism
Economic questions are unavoidably political ones, and minor technocratic adjustments don't work when the system itself is fundamentally broken.
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The #Resistance Undead
What form will mainstream liberal opposition take during Trump's second term? The early signs are not good.
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It was the economy, stupid
It turns out one of the foundational economic and political narratives of 2023-2024 was just plain wrong.
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The Myth of Nostalgia Culture
Or towards a general theory of drugstore magazine racks.
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All bets are off
In a matter of weeks, Donald Trump has inadvertently transformed Canada's entire political dynamic.
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Trade war ironies, Canadian and American
Trump's tariff threats betray a deep misunderstanding of America's already-dominant trade position. Canadians, meanwhile, should be asking deeper…
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