Today marks the 100th anniversary of "Bloomsday." On June 16, 1904, James Joyce's unlikely hero, Leopold Bloom, made his way through the streets of Dublin in the novel Ulysse...
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Where Time's wing'd flight is concerned, New Year's Eve is one of the few occasions when I am completely in sync with my fellows. Nobody wants to miss the countdown at 11:59 p.m., so...
No, I'm not talking about Bush and Kerry -- but rather two evils that have plagued America: the Ku Klux Klan and Communism. The homegrown KKK was overtly depraved and killed or terro...
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum. (Say nothing about the dead
unless it is good.) This dictum was law in newspapers until 1986,
when Englandâs Daily Telegraph set out to riva...
MONTREAL - On Monday night, I went to bed stunned and depressed. I really thought this time we would throw the bums out. Pundits and pollsters fed my rosy illusions, and I'm sure their pro...
Canadians will laugh at themselves, and then go all sensitive when others laugh at them. But truth-based mockery is a salutary ego check. Last year I applied that theory to practice ...
I have singled out Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick for censure in the past, I'm rounding on her again today, and if she continues to set herself up for ridicule as Canada's ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. and CHARLESTON, S.C. - Everyone asks: Has American politics ever been so divisive? Last week I toured Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., two solidly Bush states that di...
Blame it on Queen Victoria. When she availed herself of the new miracle of anesthesia for the delivery of one of her many children, the monarch conferred legitimacy on the hitherto f...
Eight out of 10 Americans think it is "always wrong." Yet 25% of U.S. men and 15% of women do it anyway. It is fodder for both tragedy and farce in Western culture, grounds for execu...
There are so many things wrong with hate speech laws in general that it hardly matters whether Bill C-250 is passed now or later. Nevertheless, C-250, which adds "sexual orientation"...
May one gloat if one was right? Indulge me. Last December, in a review of retiring Georgia Senator Zell Miller's book about the Democratic Party, A National Party No More, I co...
A reader -- M_____ -- wrote to express his vexation over a recent column. No problem; it's a free(ish) country.
What distinguished this particular e-mail was its opening line: "Jesus, ...
This Sunday mothers around the world will be honoured with long distance calls, flowers, chocolates, hotel brunches and gifts chosen with greater (or lesser) than normal care by thei...
Dr. Jean Marmoreo's patients, mature women brimming over with midlife woes and joys, provide the subject matter for her weekly Globe and Mail column. On Feb. 28, using two of her pat...
What do women want? I know I am not the first or last to ask -- Pfizer Pharmaceuticals (makers of Viagra) are frantically seeking the answer, for example -- but even Freud never got ...
You may not recognize the name Adbusters, but it is the biggest-selling Canadian magazine in the United States with 70,000 American subscribers. Its current issue poses the curious q...
In the last days before the Democratic National Convention, John Kerry and John Edwards adopted a campaign slogan: “Let America Be America Again.” They wer...
I didn't watch most of the Democratic convention in Boston last week. If it's scary political brainwashing I'm after, there's always the new version of The Manchurian Candidate...
Until a week ago I hadn't heard of clinical psychologist Dr. Marty McKay, but she became my favourite Canadian when she finally provided a legal and ethical way to wipe the smirk off...