The Hunt for Fred October
Ludwig and Esmeralda sipped Turkish coffee in a shadowy corner of the Blue Parrot, watching its owner, Ferrari, negotiate the purchase of the Café Américain from Rick Blaine. As always, Bogart played Blaine with nicely mingled comradery and distrust, but Ferrari was…
Empire Without Borders
Virgil’s Aeneid describes the epic adventures of a group of Trojan boat people, who escaped the fall of Troy and, after many adventures and vicissitudes (including a sojourn at Carthage
Stranger in Paradise?
As the report reprinted below indicates, some tourists are more observant than others. When he sent this numbered letter to the Department of External Affairs, James George was Canada’s high commissioner in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and consequently a member of the…
Nonkilling Global Political Science
We have just entered the fourth year of the new millennium and war and terrorism are becoming the norm to resolve international conflicts. All the experience of bloody wars of the previous century and the wisdom thereby gained seems to have been…
Canada and the World — Four Points of View
ANDREW COHEN’S BOOK, While Canada Slept, How We Lost Our Place in the World, published in 2003 to considerable critical acclaim, argues that Canada’s standing in the world is in steep decline and that we must take steps to recover the position…
Libya: A Journey Inside the Jamahiriya
Imagine a Mediterranean country with sandy beaches, well preserved classical ruins, cultural diversity, a good infrastructure, moderate prices and fine sunny weather. It is a safe and generally pleasant place for the relatively few visitors who make it there. Additionally, the country…
From Nihon to Nasser: Herbert Norman’s Diplomacy During the Suez Crisis
FROM TOKYO TO CAIRO Much has been written about Herbert Norman in the context of his contributions to our understanding of Japanese history and the extended anti-Communist witch hunt in the United States that eventually caused him to take his own life.…
