Analysis
Friday, February 4th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Joseph Berger NY Times, July 24, 2011 Sholem Aleichem arrived in New York in 1906 as the world’s most famous Yiddish writer — a distinction his comic but often disturbing stories of Eastern European life might have mocked as grandiose. Seeking refuge from Russian pogroms, he hoped to explore “the Golden Land” his readers […]
William Deresiewicz Atlantic, January/February 2014 Dracula, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe: it takes a special kind of greatness for a literary character to achieve autonomy from his creator. Like those “folk songs” that are actually the products of a single pen (“This Land Is Your Land,” say), such figures come to seem as if they’d sprung directly […]
Isaac Bashevis Singer NY Times, Sept. 20, 1964 CAN a folk writer be a genius, and can a genius think and feel just like an average man? If such a phenomenon is possible, Sholem Aleiohem is its closest approximation. He had the creative instincts and the inborn mastery of a genius while, at the same […]
Analysis Communiqués
Thursday, February 3rd 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
J. Bauer Décidément, il y a des choses qui ne changent pas en Israël , en particulier l’art des média de minimiser les bonnes nouvelles. Déjà en 2004, la visite officielle à Paris du Président d’Israël, Chaim Herzog, le père de l’actuel Président, était quasiment passée inaperçue par la télévision israélienne comme je le signale […]
DEBRA SOH SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL JANUARY 28, 2022 The Democratic Party in the United States has done a remarkable job of trademarking itself as the party that cares about racial minorities. On Thursday, President Joe Biden confirmed he will be appointing the first Black female judge to the Supreme Court next month. Considering the […]
Rich Lowry NY Post, Feb. 1, 2022 JOE Biden was the candidate of normality who hasn’t been able to deliver it, particularly on the pandemic. This is not entirely his fault, obviously. He didn’t create the Delta and Omicron surges; nor did he — or most anyone else — foresee that the vaccines wouldn’t prevent […]
Chaos is the new, the intentional, normal. A pandemic of nihilism has been unleashed upon the land. As in Lord of the Flies, when laws, rules, protocols, traditions, and customs are mocked and dismantled, primitive human nature in the raw is unleashed. Madness now reigns in every quarter, from the iconic to the irrelevant to the […]
Derek H. Burney National Post, Feb. 1, 2022 Joe Biden began his second year as president with a rare press conference that was longer than any given by a U.S. president. It did not resonate well. White House staff and the president had to walk back gaffes he made about the threat against Ukraine where […]
Tuesday, February 1st 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Eric Reguly The Globe and Mail, Jan. 14, 2022 “For Big Oil, the good times have returned in a cloud of soot and planet-warming greenhouse gases, and investors couldn’t be happier.” Big Oil wasn’t supposed to be Big Oil by now. The world’s largest stock market-listed oil companies were supposed to be different beasts at […]
Henry Geraedts Financial Post, Jan. 13, 2022 “In the United States, meanwhile, the Biden Administration’s radical climate promises encountered reality checks throughout 2021.” Two months after the dreadful sham of COP26, Western governments are still in denial about what actually happened: Net Zero’s magical thinking met unyielding global energy realities and it lost, leaving the […]
Tuesday, February 1st 2022 / Tuesday, February 1st 2022
Rex Murphy National Post, Jan. 20, 2022 “Why does the government of Canada profess we have a “duty” to the world to work towards eradicating the energy supply and system that we already have, that has mostly served us well, that has brought fortune and security to the nation?” I’ll go to the biggest one […]
Yadullah Hussain Financial Post, Jan. 19, 2022 “I noticed a marked apathy towards the country’s energy riches. I get it. We don’t always think about the hungry when we are tucking into our steaks.” Rolling power blackouts were a feature of my childhood. While my family was privileged enough to have access to a diesel-powered […]
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