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Apr 24, 2009

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A new take on Tory

In these days of ideological confusion, we are all scrambling to make sense of a political landscape more fluid and difficult to map than anything since the 1930s.

Apr 24, 2009

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Susan Boyle and YouTube: A Symposium

By 3:29 p.m. EDT, on Tuesday, April 21, the YouTube clip of Susan Boyle singing “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Miserables had enjoyed 37,001,482 views. Media like YouTube are changing the way we participate in musical culture.
Comment asked regular contributors to answer two questions in response to this phenomenon:

What is your favourite YouTube clip?
How has YouTube or similar media affected your media consumption habits?

—The Editors

An Easter Orchard

Apr 17, 2009

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An Easter Orchard

A contemporary Canadian poet has a radical take on the cross, because he is a carpenter who pays close attention to city trees.

Apr 17, 2009

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The root of our financial crisis

A new view of the “American Dream” was being created, including a “right” to unlimited consumption, achieved without personal responsibility. But now this unrealistic, ephemeral dream has become a nightmare, exported globally.

Apr 17, 2009

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Bearing witness in a stereotyping world

Gary Goodyear, one of Stephen Harper’s federal cabinet ministers, has been burned badly by “gotcha” journalism on a question of evolution.
But the real question, lying just below the surface, is this: Is there a proper place to articulate religious beliefs? Can believers find public spaces where their beliefs are respected, not targeted?

Apr 17, 2009

Week of April 12, 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.An important film that Comment profiled a year ago, As We Forgive, is being screened at the...

Emma-Jean, In Utero, 2008

Apr 9, 2009

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Emma-Jean, In Utero, 2008

My work as a family life photographer brings me into other people's lives, and their relationships, in a very intimate way. Sharing in their expectant waiting, joy, and celebration, as well as their everyday living, I am reminded of the call given to Christians to...

Apr 9, 2009

Week of April 5, 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.. . . One of Comment's favourite conferences is coming up April 16-18, 2009. "Philosophy and...

Apr 9, 2009

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Film schooled

I challenge future teachers by having them read texts and watch films that complicate their assumptions—hoping that they will avoid both reserved cynicism and naive optimism.