Policy Options

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...