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The Beauty of the Rainbow Nation

Apr 25, 2008

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The Beauty of the Rainbow Nation

Bongi, the subject of "The Beauty of the Rainbow Nation", hated white people. Born in 1968, she grew up in apartheid South Africa—a country dominated by the white Afrikaans people. Bongi was part of the marginalized communities of that day from the proud Zulu tribe....

The parliamentary Locke and the Canadian founding

Apr 18, 2008

The parliamentary Locke and the Canadian founding

Is there something to be said for a constitution infused with political values that creates a way of living together, especially with deep differences over social values? Is the better state one that embodies these political values, that seeks human flourishing, first, by recognizing its limits, and refuses to extend its jurisdiction to the salvation of souls?

Thank You For Smoking

Apr 18, 2008

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Thank You For Smoking

In this informal portrait, Pierre Bourreau—the designer responsible for the layout of the print edition of Comment magazine—strikes a satirical pose in a quasi-self-deprecating caricature of himself. It's not easy to be a smoker these days—kicked outside in subzero...

Apr 11, 2008

What makes a good teacher?

Every teacher or community leader knows how hard it is to “love the people” all the time; how hard it is to try one more time to explain something already laboured over earlier. Yet still we try again, starting each time anew. This is the vocation, the calling of the teacher-leader.

Couture: gateway drug to high art culture?

Apr 11, 2008

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Couture: gateway drug to high art culture?

Fashion democratization has increased understanding of couture as an art, and has broken through the perception of couture as a closet-filling hobby of the very rich. The recent “blog mode: addressing fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute speaks to this simultaneous elevation and democratization of fashion.