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Sep 1, 2001

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Editorial: As business ought to be

"It has often happened to me, at book fairs or in bookstores, that a gentleman approaches me and asks for my signature," writes Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa (The New Republic, May 14, 2001). "'It is for my wife, my young daughter, or my mother', he explains....

Sep 1, 2001

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Mastabas

Travelling through the vast agricultural landscape to Johannesburg—to pay our respects to my two-day old niece—was, as always, an awesome spectacle.Vast recently harvested fields of dried corn and decapitated sunflower stalks; three guinea fowl perched atop a...

Sep 1, 2001

Reason, Community and the Common Good

Second of a three-part series on pluralism, edited and excerpted from James W. Skillen and Rockne M. McCarthy, eds., Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society, © 1991 Emory University. Used by permission of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids,...

Jul 1, 2001

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Chardin’s Kitchens

A more expansive version of this article appeared in Rainbows for the Fallen World (Toronto: Tuppence Press, 1980). Eating good food in good company is an important human activity. As the bedroom is rather basic to a marriage, so the kitchen, I dare say, is...

Jul 1, 2001

Hiking in the Bieszczady Mountains

Fifteen liquid cuckoo calls echo through the forest across the valley, competing with the deep bass of thunder as mist rolls into the valley like gamboling dragons. As we hike up and along the mountain-spines, lightning strikes the high places on either side of us—no...

Jul 1, 2001

Freedom, Progress and History

Writing in the decade following World War II, social philosopher Robert A. Nisbet began to raise serious questions about the North American liberal ideals of human autonomy and inevitable human progress.From a standpoint in the early twenty-first century, many may be...

May 1, 2001

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Has Harris Really Changed Things?

"I also want to begin by pointing out the absolute hypocrisy of the title of the bill, calling it the Economic Development and Workplace Democracy Act. Why don't you just 'fess up and come clean and call the act exactly what it is: Further Gutting Ontario's Labour...

May 1, 2001

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Editorial: Built to Last

This issue of Comment is a first step in a new direction.WRF Comment was first published in January 1983 as a 6-page newsletter on labour relations and economics. Since then, much has changed. Our publisher, the Work Research Foundation, has grown and acquired a...

May 1, 2001

Civic Entrepreneurialism

In the recent federal election, the Canadian Alliance campaigned on the premise that Canadians are tired of activist, in-your-face over-government from Ottawa. And, since in their view the Liberals are the "More Government Party," the Alliance tried to forge...