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June 2006

"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.", Arthur Miller


Brighter Lights, Bigger Cities

June 2006

Brighter Lights, Bigger Cities

by Alan Broadbent
Cities are the bloated elephants in Stephen Harper’s Cabinet room. Will he have the courage to look them in the eye?
Photography by Eamon Mac Mahon

A House Half Built

National Affairs

A House Half Built

A former premier argues that Canada must return to its nation-building roots

The American Gigantic

Society

The American Gigantic

Has the dream of freedom and opportunity declined into a hopeless pathology?

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Spuddenfreude

Field Notes

Spuddenfreude

Germany


The Truth about Lying

Literature

The Truth about Lying

Everybody does it, and perhaps they should


The Possibility of a Pornographic Moralist

Books

The Possibility of a Pornographic Moralist

Caustic, excessive, self-loathing French author Michel Houellebecq skewers Western civilization


Graphic Truths

Books

Graphic Truths

Once pure fantasy, the comic book has become a powerful way of portraying reality


BloodFest ‘06: The May 24th Blackfly Rally

Imaginings

BloodFest ‘06: The May 24th Blackfly Rally

If you can’t beat ‘em, bite ‘em


Expect Delays

Travel

Expect Delays

The June 2006 cover image is from a photo essay, recounting the cross-Canada trip of a photographer and his brother after their mother’s death. » View Photo Gallery «


A Storm Blowing from Paradise

Art

A Storm Blowing from Paradise

Anselm Kiefer’s Heaven and Earth


Crescent Schools

Field Notes

Crescent Schools

Pakistan


What He Saw

Fiction

What He Saw

Be that way then, she said. And wished she hadn’t. She touched the straps of her bikini and walked down to the


June 2006

Letters

June 2006

The Family Doctor Crisis I read Alastair Brown’s excellent article on the challenges of the rural physician (


Postmodern Choirboy

Detail

Postmodern Choirboy

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay on his elegies for a lost natural self


Nicaragua’s Crazy Sickness

Anthropology

Nicaragua’s Crazy Sickness

An indigenous community grapples with a mysterious ailment


Old Hands on Deck

International Security

Old Hands on Deck

Could the United States’ Arabists provide an exit strategy from Iraq?


Super Mario’s Temple

Field Notes

Super Mario’s Temple

Japan


The Shrinking News

Sightings

The Shrinking News

On their best days, newspaper editorialists analyze government policy statements for what they hide and reveal, beat back


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