Canadian Dimension magazine, July/August 2008

When I first arrived at Princeton University almost fifty years ago, I felt pretty green — far from home and familiar landmarks, physical and intellectual. One of my fellow grad students, simultaneously friendly and intimidating, was Phil Green, a leftie who would go on to be a member of The Nation magazine’s board and also to write a number of weighty tomes (including Deadly Logic: The Theory of Nuclear Deterrence, a classic on the irrationalities of the nuclear balance of terror). (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, July/August 2008

Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism by Marion Nestle University of California Press, 2007 (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, July/August 2008

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle University of California Press, 2007 (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, July/August 2008

Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System by Jim Harding Fernwood, 2007 (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, May/June 2008 issue

by Bryan D. Palmer
University of Illinois Press, 2007

The extraordinary British radical historian Edward Thompson described one of his goals as being to spare those whose lives and dreams are lost to history from the “enormous condescension of posterity.” In writing the first half of the life of James P. Cannon, Bryan Palmer takes up an even more ambitious task. Given that Cannon later became the central figure in U.S. Trotskyism, Palmer’s task was both to spare Cannon the condescension of the mainstream and to save him from the uncritical adulation of revolutionaries who regard him as the very embodiment of “revolutionary continuity.” (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, May/June 2008 issue

by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers
McClelland & Stewart, 2007

The Church of the Free Market Fairy is divided into two denominations.

The fundamentalists believe that the Free Market Fairy will always deliver the best of all possible worlds, so long as we don’t let the government interfere. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, May/June 2008 issue

Every street in every old Canadian industrial town has its own Gus Popadopolous. He’s the old timer on your block that stuck around when the abandoned factory morphed into gentrified condos. His mode of dress is a white undershirt, no matter what the weather. His all-purpose accoutrement is a shovel, not a cell phone. He might cheer you on at road hockey, but wouldn’t hesitate to yell at you if the ball went into his garden. You know him. You might even be him! (Keep reading…)