October 2007
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Was Joe DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak the greatest feat in all of sports or merely a product of its time?
The DiMaggio Index
Lesser-known facts about Joe DiMaggio, the baseball legend who hit in an unbelievable 56 consecutive games in 1941, a major league record.
More on Lapham’s Quarterly
This Online Exclusive is a companion to “Lapham’s History Project” (October 2007), containing a letter excerpt from Lewis Lapham, and a link to a talk he gave at The Wa
September 2007
On Strawberry Hill
The hippie exodus to Canada from the United States was not a mass migration, but it was close. Is it time to rethink this period, then and now?
July 2007
June 2007
Peaking on the Prairies
Long before touching down in San Francisco, LSD was primed to become a psychiatric wonder drug in Saskatoon
“The Society of Difference”
An excerpt from the eighth annual LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture, March 2, 2007, Vancouver
May 2007
Life on Nut Island
With four strokes of a pen, Ontario police officer Ron Heinemann set in motion the disbandment of an elite crime-fighting unit. Was he a villain, or the scapegoat for a corrupted police culture? NMA nominee: Investigative Repoting
April 2007
It’s a Dog’s Life
They’re not just pets anymore — they’re teachers, preachers, shrinks, and philosophers
March 2007
Snail Males
Why are men falling behind in universities while women speed ahead? NMA nominee: Illustration
February 2007
Good To Go
A military-run course designed to prepare reporters for combat raises some thorny questions about journalistic ethics
January 2007
Hear No Evil, Write No Lies
Maher Arar was portrayed as a sly fox, a predator working with al-Qaeda. He turned out to be a hare, an innocent family man.
November 2006
Alberta’s Gamble with Gambling
The “crack cocaine” of gaming hooks a senior mandarin—and the provincial treasury
October 2006
Bombs Over Cambodia
New information reveals that Cambodia was bombed far more heavily than previously believed
The Animals We Love, The Animals We Eat
Pets are family, but chickens are food products? A Quebec vet examines our two-faced relationship with animals
July 2006
Plants with Soul
How a mind-bending plant-based drug made its way from the Amazon jungle to the US Supreme Court
June 2006
May 2006
Master of Guillotine
An Algerian executioner put 200 men to death. He has never lost a moment’s sleep
March 2006
Identity Crisis
Multiculturalism: A twentieth-century dream becomes a twenty-first-century conundrum
November 2005
September 2005
June 2005
Under The Sheltering Crescent Moon
Can our nation’s multiculturalism embrace Islamic radicals and reformers?
May 2005
Royal Cock-up
Charles and Camilla are choosing personal gratification over the survival of a 1,000-year-old monarchy
April 2005
‘Til Decree Do Us Part
The Catholic Church holds traditional marriage sacred, but it’s handing out annulments by the thousands
November 2004
The Numbers Game
Larger, richer, more powerful than ever: that’s the forecast for the U.S. as its birth rate exceeds that of any other industrialized nation — and nearly doubles that of Canada.
Life, at What Price?
Canada does not have universal health care, but it could. The secret might lie in the Oregon experiment, a radical and life-promoting solution
October 2004
Not the Six-O’clock News
In post-Communist Albania, teen reporters are redefining broadcast journalism
September 2004
Front Man
Grant Bristow kept silent for almost ten years about his controversial work as a CSIS spy in Canada’s neo-Nazi movement. Now, finally, he’s ready to tell his side of the story.
February 2004
The Culture of Enterprise
It’s high time we understood profit as an instrument of creativity, not as an end in itself
Lost in La Paz
In Bolivia, where the past, present, and future collide, nothing – not even prison – is as it seems
