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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...

Jan 1, 2003

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Editorial: On Craft

To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom. —John MiltonWith Comment, we try and connect three things in every issue (although not necessarily all three at the same time in every single piece we publish): (1) the biblical worldview, (2)...

Jan 1, 2003

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On Craft (2)

At Comment, we are convinced that work (or cultivation or craft or skill or "formative power") is essential to all of human life and basic to all spheres of human action other than marriage, family, and friendship. So we want to lean our journal increasingly toward...

Sep 1, 2002

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Editorial: Public Intellectual Journalism

You were marginal in terms of the main culture, but you felt a tougher intellectual life. The talk! The talk was exciting."—William Phillips Were I the candle-lighting kind, I would light a candle for William Phillips (d. September 13, 2002), founder and editor of...