Nationalist Gobbledegook: The Free Trade Papers

Nationalist Gobbledegook: The Free Trade Papers

It has now been four years since Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan signed the free-trade pact and the mythmakers are out in full force trying to craft revisionist accounts of how we got there. Three books with free trade as their main…

The Department and the Country

The Department and the Country

(In this excerpt from a book he is writing about the Canadian foreign service, the author argues that foreign service officers must do much more to explain their profession to the Canadian public.)

The Power Game — How Washington Works

The Power Game — How Washington Works

Shortly before leaving office, Harry Truman made a famous remark about his successor, Dwight Eisenhower: “He’ll sit right here and he’ll say, ‘Do this. Do that!’ And nothing will happen. Poor Ike — it won’t be a bit like the Army. He’ll…