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Jun 12, 2009

Week of June 7, 2009

A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.Comment passes its deepest regrets to the family of Gerald Folkerts, renowned Winnipeg artist,...

Jun 12, 2009

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Thoughts on executive pay and income inequality

Does an economic system that bases compensation on productivity, leading to a huge income gap, meet the test of basic fairness and justice? Or are we seeing—like the Boston Red Sox destroying a local Little League team—unfair and predetermined outcomes?

Jun 12, 2009

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Optimistic? Pessimistic? Realistic?

According to Newsweek, we may be well be witnessing “The End of Christian America” as we have known it. Instead of transforming culture, the culture may in fact have transformed the church.

Yet the key, going forward, is realism. The good creation is very fallen; the fallen creation is very good. In what spirit will you press on?

Cain and Abel

Jun 5, 2009

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Cain and Abel

Gelatin silver print 1996Cain and Abel is not a piece of recent work, but it is the most requested and reproduced. In a sort of reverse engineering, the picture was taken on a whim while testing a new camera. It was only while looking at the proof sheet a few months...

Jun 5, 2009

In-flight refueling

McDonald’s is emblematic of libraries-turned-media-centres, and hospitals-turned-medical-centres: the human has become inhuman. And yet, like so many things in modern life, the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in McDonald’s, but in ourselves.

Jun 5, 2009

Week of May 31, 2009

A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.CALL FOR POETS: Comment Magazine invites poets to submit contributions in the form of a rondeau...