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In his article “Speaking Out” (The Walrus, June 2019), Toronto-based 30-something freelance contrarian John Semley tells the story of the Wilfred Laurier University (WLU) teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd, who made international headlines when she was censured by a University examining committee for allegedly creating an unsafe learning environment for transgender students. The committee…
Max Fawcett searches for the prophet of atheism.
John Harris posts a slightly argumentative view on the Statue Wars controversy
Margaret Randall is thinking about statues, racism, and history.
Did Trump say it? Did he deny saying it? Who knows?
Brian Fawcett recalls something he discovers about how Dostoyevsky wrote dialogue that leads him to take a swing at James Wood, (the critic, not the actor)
Brian Fawcett isn’t fond of people who feed peanuts to squirrels. Here’s why.
A few days ago, Merrily Weisbord sent me a piece written by Olga Tokarczuk about the Covid-19 crisis currently sweeping the world. A friend of Merrily’s, Jerzy Przytyk, had translated the piece using Google’s notoriously mechanical translation program. What Tokarczuk had to say in the piece was interesting simply because she is Olga Tokarczuk,…
John Harris remembers poet Ken Belford.