December 1, 2001
In Canada, proportional representation should be a hard sell
In the July-August 2001 issue of Policy Options, a number of Canadian political scientists, politicians and others came out four-square for replacement of the present electoral system with some version...
December 1, 2001
Tenure subverts academic freedom
In his controversial 1990 book, ProfScam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education, Charles Sykes argued that, “Tenure corrupts, enervates, and dulls higher education. It is, moreover, the academic...
December 1, 2001
Tenure promotes honest hiring
Like Hymie Rubenstein, I detest the repressive speech codes of academe, the stultifying anti-intellectualism of faculty unions and the political mush that passes for scholarship among so many of my...
December 1, 2001
Responses of Messieurs Rubenstein and Carmichael
Lorne Carmichael claims that lifetime job security in the ivory tower is the best way to protect academic freedom. Tenure is needed more today than ever, he says, because: unlike...
December 1, 2001
Cultural dreams, policy schemes
We are engaged today in cultural politics, which means that we meet on a field of dreams and a field of battle, where contending armies assert their claims for...
December 1, 2001
Canada’s own intern scandal
Gary Condit’s offices can be an extremely rewarding experience. Typical duties of interns can range from assisting with phones to researching legislative projects. — U.S. Rep. Gary Condit’s official website...
December 1, 2001
Is Quebec a North American region-state?
Our view of the evolution of Quebec in the last decade is obscured by three elements. First, from the Meech debate of 1990 to the resignation of Premier Bouchard in...
December 1, 2001
The world’s choice: Mullahs or pirates?
Did the events of Sept. 11th mark a military watershed in which the world’s only superpower was revealed to have prepared for the wrong war? Or has that possibility been...
December 1, 2001
Pax Americana: we could do worse for a hegemon
Three months after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the acrid smoke from Ground Zero apparently still permeates Lower Manhattan. In the same way, September 11th insinuates...
December 1, 2001
Canadian values and national security policy: who decides?
We’re there to tell Canadians what’s important. Peter Mansbridge, CBC commercial Contemporary analysts of Canadian national security policy generally fall into two camps: those fighting a rearguard action to...