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June 2005
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea"
- Walter Bagehot (1826-1977)
June 2005
Desperately Seeking Ideas
by Allan Gregg
Politics has been reduced to a guessing game about what voters want. Here’s a thought: how about an election fought on real issues…[more]Illustration by Leif Parsons
Science
Totally Genius
by Dan Falk
The smartest scientists in the world still haven’t solved a basic question: are minds like Shakespeare, Mozart, and Einstein born or made?…[more]
Food
Frontiers Of Flavour
by Nelson Handel
A team of explorers follows in the footsteps of Marco Polo—only this time the quest is for the world’s most elusive sensations of taste…[more]
More Stories in this issue
Field Notes
The Kurdish New Wave
by Yigal Schleifer
diyarbakir—Every weekday morning, Hekim Aydin hops on board a beat-up moped and rides to Diyarbakir city hall.…[more]
Field Notes
Who Ya Gonna Call?
by Jake MacDonald
vancouver—As she strolls through the streets of her working-class neighbourhood lined with bungalows and…[more]
Music
Off Beat
by Li Robbins
How world music went from something new and wonderful to a generic branding exercise…[more]
Books
Has Childhood Gone awol?
by Don Gillmor
Both picture books and young readers seem to be disappearing as a new target market takes shape…[more]
Sightings
Missing Mordecai
by Ken Alexander
The Pope. Prince Rainier. Terri Schiavo. Numerous murders in Toronto the Good. More Iraqis. Satire. Context.…[more]
Field Notes
A Sidewalk Tour Of Yucatán
by Fraser Sutherland
mérida—The best way to see Mérida, the heat-smitten capital of Mexico’s Yucatán state, is to stroll head…[more]
Fiction
If Things Happen for A Reason
by Sara O’Leary
This will be something to tell our children. That’s the first thing she remembers him saying to her. They…[more]
Religion
Under The Sheltering Crescent Moon
by Ray Conlogue
Can our nation’s multiculturalism embrace Islamic radicals and reformers?…[more]
Letters
June 2005
by The Walrus Readers
Sand Storm
Thank you for Don Gillmor’s article on the Alberta oil sands (
Field Notes
The Wealth Of Shamans
by Allan Coukell
hovsgol province/ulaan baatar—On a sunny afternoon, a man sits on the floor of his teepee (or ortz) in the…[more]
Visual Art
Trauma Mama
by Daniel Baird
Angry, eloquent, fragile, native artist Rebecca Belmore takes her new work to the Venice Biennale…[more]
Comedy
Striking Back At The Empire
by Andrew Clark
How comedians throughout history have raged against the machine…[more]
Sporting Life
To Catch A Fish
by John DeMont
The perfect escape is just a gasoline slick away for the dedicated urban angler…[more]
International Affairs
The Peace Wager
by Kathy Cook
As the killing in Darfur continues, the question arises once more: why can no one stop it?…[more]
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