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First, Helen Dewitt (in a Berlin fashion week spread!) on how things used to work in Britain: I started thinking about it when Britain introduced the National Lottery. Before the Lottery there was an investment scheme called Premium Bonds which gave participants the chance to win a million pounds: you had to buy a minimum [...More] ‘ Taxing the Poor, Gambling on the Rich ‘ One could call a recent episode, in which the employees at a Mott’s factory in upstate New York’s Williamson face a $1.50 an hour pay cut combined with other benefits reductions just another day in the continued American slide toward inequality. Yet as noted by New York Times writer Steve Greenhouse, the strike is interesting [...More] ‘ Dr. Pepper is hurting America ‘ Even if it is not immediately recognized as such, Law, as it is idealized by the new law student, is the philosophy of state power. Not in the explanatory sense of political science, but quite literally the philosophy which the state itself cleaves to in the exercise of that power. The idealistic among these [...More] ‘ I suppose that’s a profession I would like to be a part of… ‘ McGill is raising the tuition of their MBA program to $30 000; an order of magnitude increase. Little surprise that Québec’s government is incensed, nor that the Globe and Mail editorial board is in favour. From the Globe’s argument: McGill says the actual cost of running its program is $22,000 a year, of which tuition and [...More] ‘ universities (ii) ‘ How should those charged with applying the law administer it? From a 2006 article on Latin American approaches to labour inspection, Michael J. Piore and Andrew Schrank hint at a fascinating approach to regulatory decision-making we like to pretend is impossible in Canada: The flexibility of the Latin model in particular contradicts the image of [...More] ‘ Flexibily or Arbitrarily? ‘ This weekend’s balmy Montréal weather provided me ample indoor time to consider the question of what’s wrong with political discourse these days. I’ve been sussing out a research project with a doctoral candidate in Communications Studies [ footnote: the more you learn about the important issues in modern politics, the more you realize that political [...More] ‘ how I spent my weekend ‘ How are we supposed to go on and keep trying at anything when there are things in the world that are so much better than anything we will ever be able to do? And how are we supposed to keep going on, with all the terrible things that we do to each other and the [...More] ‘ virtuosity ‘ |
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