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A show about nothing
In the span of mere weeks, Donald Trump completely transformed Canada's political dynamic — and improbably gave technocratic politics a second wind.
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Canadian Nationalism Is Back. Now What?
A long read on the complex history of Canadian nationalism, the Canada-US relationship, trade and tariff policy as identity, and the urgent need for…
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The Green Lantern Theory of politics, revisited
It turns out a presidential administration can quite literally just do stuff after all. The real question is what executive power is ultimately being…
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Canadian socialism against US domination
On Ed Broadbent, nationalism, and the Canadian left
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The Wasteland
Influencer culture shows us a bleak future where all life has become commerce and markets have conquered the private self
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March 2025

The paucity of Abundance
The hotly-debated new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is a grand sketch of liberalism's future that fails to reach beyond the lean horizons of its…
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The liberal crackup
Longstanding orthodoxies of the Democratic Party are crumbling and large swathes of its base have had enough. Have the chickens of so-called Resistance…
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Maple syrup neoliberalism
Nationalism without social and economic democracy is just a new paint job on an old model that needs to be scrapped
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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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