A Fast Company article this week (HT: Milton Friesen) highlighted how the standards are changing for companies in sharing what once might have been considered negative information that would have been buried. Sharing more information, including a self-deprecatory approach, can … Continue reading →

Stephen Lewis is one of those people who, if we had to live off of words, would subsist on a diet comprised mainly of adjectives and adverbs. His speech is attractive, but it’s prone to produce a bit of flab, … Continue reading →

I read Donald Hall’s extraordinary memoir-of-sorts Life Work last week, in which Hall performs feats of narrative in a mere 124 pages by telling the story of his work and his ancestors’ work, and the work habits of many others, … Continue reading →

Hope, wrote the great international relations scholar Martin Wight, is not a political virtue. Wight’s realism has been wrongly read a great deal over the years, as though by this he meant politics has no hope, or that politics is … Continue reading →

Last Sunday, the NYTimes ran one of those lengthy opinion pieces that seems calculated to ruffle feathers and generate chatter. The thesis of the piece is that we are in a “post-idea” age. We have no more big ideas—just sort … Continue reading →

A few hours after his passing, Jack Layton’s “letter to Canadians” was released. Many were inspired by the vision it contained. “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let … Continue reading →

A fine and quirky fellow gave me a gift subscription last Christmas to the finest quirky magazine I’ve ever encountered. Now, despite perpetual predictions of the death of the magazine industry, there remain fine magazines around. Cardus’ own Comment certainly … Continue reading →

Like most Canadians, I knew Jack Layton mostly through the political persona shaped by media and political marketing machines. Twenty-some-odd years ago, I was a teenaged partisan and Jack Layton emerged on the scene as a lefty Toronto alderman with … Continue reading →

. . . We take [politics] very seriously, but we know that at the end of the day, politics has its limits and its purpose. Politics and even his indefatiguable optimism won’t cure Jack Layton. Perhaps medicine will. Perhaps a … Continue reading →

Books & Culture‘s John Wilson writes in the Wall Street Journal this morning that no one reads the Bible literally, or—at least—no one reads the Old Testament that way. He says that, . . . an alarm should sound whenever … Continue reading →