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Mar 1, 2003

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Jubilee on the Job

To my surprise I found out that to celebrate a jubilee can be dangerous as well as exciting, if you take it seriously. For Queen Elizabeth II to reign for 50 years and go on tour in Canada, and for CBC Television to tout up 50 years of programming and hold an...

Mar 1, 2003

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Guilds from the Dot-com Ashes?

Remember the talk that preceded the dot-com bust? You recall those predictions about an economic model in which almost every worker was a free agent, running Me Inc., making a profitable living from orders that somehow would magically appear in e-mail in-boxes through...

Mar 1, 2003

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Planet-Like Music

An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) by Philip Sidney, R. W. Maslen, ed. (Manchester University Press, 2002, 304 pp, $36.95) In what has been called the "most stylish and seductive work of literary theory written in the Renaissance," Sir Philip Sidney...

Mar 1, 2003

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Human Rights, Union Changes

Roy Adams, professor emeritus of industrial relations at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has a distinguished publishing history emphasizing workers' rights to form or join a union. He has persuasively pointed out that the development of North American...

Jan 1, 2003

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An Interview with Herman Leusink

The city of Edmonton, best known as the seat of the Alberta government and gateway to the great industrial energy projects of the province's resource rich north, is home to Computronix, a high-tech company plying its unique software development solutions to...

Jan 1, 2003

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Debating Globalization (2)

An email discussion with Stuart Buck (SB), a lawyer and conservative; Daniel Knauss (DK), an urban agrarian; and Caleb Stegall (CS), a country lawyer and upstart hobbit. CS: In the discussion published in the previous issue of Comment, Jeremy Lott defines...