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[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:21 | null | null | German Jewish refugee Leo Strauss (1899-1973) exercised as much influence on his discipline and on American society as any other political thinker in the second half of the twentieth century. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FLeo-Strauss-and-the-Conservative-Movement-in-America.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Leo Strauss's Political Philosophy and Its Legacy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | German Jewish refugee Leo Strauss (1899-1973) exercised as much influence on his discipline and on American society as any other political thinker in the second half of the twentieth century. His works on ancient and modern "philosophers," which is the appellation he conferred on those who grappled with the purpose of ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Leo-Strauss-and-the-Conservative-Movement-in-America.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6026d9615ac4a0643da28b11a82c51ecb275bf2bae10647023b03b00811430a3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:57 | null | null | Every Lincoln scholar is familiar with the perhaps apocryphal story told by Henry Champion Deming, a member of the Connecticut Congress, about the president's understanding of Christianity... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FLincoln-and-the-Politics-of-Christian-Love.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Abraham Lincoln Christian Politics | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Every Lincoln scholar is familiar with the perhaps apocryphal story told by Henry Champion Deming, a member of the Connecticut Congress, about the president's understanding of Christianity. Asked whether he would ever join a particular church, Lincoln replied that he would become a member of any church which inscribed ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Lincoln-and-the-Politics-of-Christian-Love.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/2b1bcdfb690563456e9b4db99a6bff80688413e9c7c7336765430190902ea6f1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:06 | null | null | Even people with little interest in high fashion know the name Chanel—a name synonymous with sophistication and glamour. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FCoco-Chanel-by-Linda-Simon.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Coco Chanel Biography | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Even people with little interest in high fashion know the name Chanel-a name synonymous with sophistication and glamour. She's the designer, so legend has it, who single-handedly freed women from corsets and the constrictions of elaborate, ornate clothes; she created the sexy and iconic little black dress, and, of cour... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Coco-Chanel-by-Linda-Simon.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/07bb64e42a6cb358d5a6bcdf66fd0fa2a127e27f623c5c27f69a92b316477e00.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:52 | null | null | The post-communist transitions are over. Socialism's command economy was successfully dismantled, but unexpected and distorted forms of capitalism arose in its place, often of a thuggish character, more freebooter than free market. And, finally, the transitions gave rise to very different types of post-communist states... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FCapital-Coercion-and-Post-Communist-States.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Postcommunist State Development: Russia and Poland | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The post-communist transitions are over. Across Eastern Europe, the transitions yielded much greater variety in political and economic institutional outcomes, than was first anticipated. While some post-communist countries reached consolidated democracy, others deviated into new forms of authoritarianism, and still oth... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Capital-Coercion-and-Post-Communist-States.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/1a01e58d4b14720e2e13f5397a86b156d12d2d2a2cd7ab060db60b4aad641101.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:56 | null | null | An essay on the economic history of Roman Catholic Church. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FEconomic-Origins-of-Roman-Christianity.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Catholic Church and Its Early Economic History | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Roman Catholic Church, a principal world religion today in competition with other Christian faiths, had, by 1600, achieved dominance over huge swaths of Europe. A virtual monopoly in these areas, the Church captured and set rules for marriage as a religious institution, manipulated capital markets, engaged in milit... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Economic-Origins-of-Roman-Christianity.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/3f7949b5a25d3550aa77ebcb70334abf3ae41798333a630bf431395686a55c36.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:43 | null | null | Perhaps humanity is overly narcissistic, but few problems are so fascinating to us as our own, complex and intelligent minds. For over a century, debates have raged over so-called intelligence tests, used in schools, in armies, and in the offices of clinical psychologists—what do such tests mean? what do they miss? can... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FHow-Intelligence-Happens-by-John-Duncan.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | How Intelligence Happens | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Perhaps humanity is overly narcissistic, but few problems are so fascinating to us as our own, complex and intelligent minds. For over a century, debates have raged over so-called intelligence tests, used in schools, in armies, and in the offices of clinical psychologists-what do such tests mean? what do they miss? can... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/How-Intelligence-Happens-by-John-Duncan.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ce31cd46d73fd635f217f1fd734cae8714acf1957bf650b9ccddd633b7e33c42.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:36 | null | null | The Politics of Inequality in Russia is a study of the political processes underlieing the steady rise in inequality observed in Russia since the end of the Soviet regime... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-politics-of-inequality-in-Russia.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Politics of Inequality in Russia | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "The Politics of Inequality in Russia" is a study of the political processes underlining the steady rise in inequality observed in Russia since the end of the Soviet regime. Inequality has risen both across the regions of the country and across groups of the population. While all the post-communist countries have witne... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-politics-of-inequality-in-Russia.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/aa3d3701744d8557e879082b7fec20b6f66407d5d34a8c8d07634c08c85060bb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:03 | null | null | The declared objective of Islamists has been to bring unity and power to Muslims and elevate their religion to a model for the world to follow. Ironically, over the past few decades, they have caused political strife and sectarian division in Muslim countries, tarnished the image of Islam and made Muslims the object of... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPoliticized-Islam-and-an-ideological-war-of-attrition.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Islamic State (ISIL): Politicized Islam and an ideological war of attrition | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The bullet-ridden body of the young man shot dead after murdering innocent holidaymakers on a Tunisian beach could not but evoke mixed feelings of regret at a wasted youth and revulsion at the barbarity of another mass murder at the instigation of the Islamic State. It also raised questions about the origin of this pol... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Politicized-Islam-and-an-ideological-war-of-attrition.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/8ceb937cc8e300f1f78e7bf05d4e82475e2ddee1da2c937256bf019bf6c20966.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:33 | null | null | Death has long been seen as the ultimate equalizer, yet its depiction in the news takes shape across unequal parameters... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAbout-to-die-book-review-by-Barbie-Zelizer.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | How News Images Move the Public | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Death has long been seen as the ultimate equalizer, yet its depiction in the news takes shape across unequal parameters. About To Die: How News Images Move the Public tells the story of one kind of news image that appears when depicting death is untenable or difficult. It charts what I call the "about to die image" - n... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/About-to-die-book-review-by-Barbie-Zelizer.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b6b5cad4f8b583b9eee180f7c51ae258a5b29061bffba879d36686c82fa3861b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:45 | null | null | Poetry by William Lychack | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FWilliam-Lychack-Poetry.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | William Lychack | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | My mother passed them on to me,
These keepsake things I so adore.
It's such a happy list you'll see.
That wonderful, wounded quality,
All angers and hurts that came before.
My mother passed this on to me.
Her own father dies almost endlessly,
And my father's death the rhyme restores.
It's such a happy list you'll see.
... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/William-Lychack-Poetry.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/57ebb40cdc1719b4fee27cd55313169e958eab0bb60e5190b26e981d1e8225af.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:34 | null | null | The United States government started out on a shoestring and almost immediately went bankrupt. To fight its war of Independence from Britain, it borrowed from banks in Holland and wheedled large sums from France, Britain’s great rival... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Founders-and-Finance-by-Thomas-K-McCraw.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The United States government started out on a shoestring and almost immediately went bankrupt. To fight its war of Independence from Britain, it borrowed from banks in Holland and wheedled large sums from France, Britain’s great rival. The Continental Congress continually asked the new state governments for funds but n... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Founders-and-Finance-by-Thomas-K-McCraw.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/128f3b809102a0e96ac7b1a69b5b7126b0603cf326177d1c7edc1b3fa9071473.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:31 | null | null | As individuals, we make up our own abridged histories. When at a pub or a dinner party, we have a kind of condensed bio that we like to spout off when meeting new people, a single sentence we utter in order to quickly and efficiently convey our story... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBelieving-Cedric1.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Mark Lavorato on Believing Cedric | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | As individuals, we make up our own abridged histories. When at a pub or a dinner party, we have a kind of condensed bio that we like to spout off when meeting new people, a single sentence we utter in order to quickly and efficiently convey our story. "I teach economics at McGill, but I grew up on Vancouver Island." Wh... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Believing-Cedric1.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f87af18abdf2f1bb35069133170b9c8a0b40ddae526f8600b6f0c51ad53e3cb5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:18 | null | null | Bruce Cumings on his books "The Korean War: A History" and "Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power" | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FKorean-war-and-American-policy-in-East-Asia.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Korean War and American Policy in East Asia | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Montreal Review invited Prof. Bruce Cumings, chair of History Department at University of Chicago, to write a short essay on his books The Korean War: A History and Dominion From Sea to Sea. Prof. Cumings's essay is a part of a series of publications on foreign policy and international relations published in The Mo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Korean-war-and-American-policy-in-East-Asia.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ed3f64a5f468633026f0ef72536421b754ecd4c04c518946ec79b128ba420c4d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:03 | null | null | The idea of ‘sin’ suits its times, argues Paula Fredriksen in her new book ‘Sin: The Early History of an Idea’. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSin-The-Early-History-of-an-Idea.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Sin in history and Christianity | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "The Kingdom of God is at hand: Repent!" In the first century, Jesus and Paul proclaimed this same message, Jesus to fellow Jews, Paul to pagans. Jesus defined the sins of his audience by appeal to the Ten Commandments. The primary sin of Paul's audience, by comparison, was idolatry. Their mission fields were different... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Sin-The-Early-History-of-an-Idea.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e18d059da4fd267917e5ed04d355313ee545de3fc82528be340257f555a9e9c1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:10 | null | null | An Interview With Grammy-Award winning singer-songwriter, Macy Gray. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMacy-Gray.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Macy Gray | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Montreal Review: Macy, your real name is Natalie Renee McIntyre. How Natalie has become Macy? Macy Gray: I saw Macy Gray on a mailbox in my neighborhood growing up as a kid. I always thought it was a cool name. I wanted an alias, like all rock stars had, and I knew it had to be Macy Gray. TMR: Your voice is notable... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Macy-Gray.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/439bd4d04eea6f1cf2b02eb6d9bbd29d007658c544eb367c3180a92815e4fa68.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:50 | null | null | On reasoning and listening to the arguments others. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FReasoning-A-Social-Picture.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Reasoning and Conversation | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | When Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth Bennet early on in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, he begins by saying " before I am run away with by my feelings on this subject, perhaps it will be advisable for me to state my reasons for marrying," and then goes on to list them. When Elizabeth rejects him, he fails to take ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Reasoning-A-Social-Picture.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/377553c586c29e66e4a968dcef3a2e5f2e9fbcadbd8905fe14cf74e87fe51997.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:58:59 | null | null | What we are currently witnessing are American and Chinese cracks splitting along the floor of the Pacific Ocean toward one another; those emanating from North America largely illusory but nonetheless impactful, and those springing from Asia very real. So what happens if they meet, say, in the South China Sea, or in the... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FCracks-Global-Powers.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Andreas Kuersten | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon in the nation’s capital, September 27th, 2015; the day after Chinese President Xi Xinping departed for New York City. Chinese flags placed on the light posts along Constitution Avenue still wave. They flow with the cadence of a cool fall breeze, flanked on either side by the flags of the U... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Cracks-Global-Powers.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/155ca4eb25c0d44388e8304466ac107fd5267418477939e4380fe22f2d49834e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:10 | null | null | When falling for short term gains to impede long-term retributions happen to be the way forward... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-inviolableking-of-Morocco.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The inviolable King of Morocco | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | They say when you make the rules, you know how to break them -- and break them intelligently to great acclaim. King Mohammed VI of Morocco is no exception. Like every one of his absolute ruling contemporaries in the Arab world, he is faced with the threat of revolutionary fever hell-bent on dethroning him from his self... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-inviolableking-of-Morocco.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/c3e98e0f93833ca44c401f53e4bdcf5e8819ee80ae7a8be4e48e5ac7a6a30c02.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:26 | null | null | I was 16 in 1994. I remember I had a crush on a girl at my high school named Stacy... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FI-was-16-Rwanda.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Sean Christopher Lewis | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I was 16 in 1994. I remember I had a crush on a girl at my high school named Stacy. She was two years older and had absolutely no interest in me (though my incessant quoting of the movie HEATHERS did get her to proclaim me her "project" for the rest of the year). I had a beat up old Renault I drove to and from football... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/I-was-16-Rwanda.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/4b7c684c9b4067a0164d1d43fd66b0be96b16c3195bd1f25f885448ef4aeef36.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:27 | null | null | The eyes of the world have rightly been focused since the beginning of 2011 on the popular upheavals in the Arab world. Leaders have been deposed in three Arab countries, very possibly in a fourth (Yemen, where President Ali Abdallah Saleh has resigned but remains in the country) and Bashar al-Asad hangs on against the... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-International-Relations-of-the-Persian-Gulf.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Gulf Regional System and the Arab Spring | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The eyes of the world have rightly been focused since the beginning of 2011 on the popular upheavals in the Arab world. Leaders have been deposed in three Arab countries, very possibly in a fourth (Yemen, where President Ali Abdallah Saleh has resigned but remains in the country) and Bashar al-Asad hangs on against the... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-International-Relations-of-the-Persian-Gulf.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/7e9cd57fdd88a20fc3c525dabfb5a93a77cb0bdd8b7076f75bd07cc26850782f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:04:13 | null | null | Although German Reunification commemorated its 25th anniversary last year, the German art scene continues to be weirdly bipolar. By zooming in on individual careers of artists, however, one may come to appreciate the web of complicated relations that shaped East and West German painting during the Cold War and afterwar... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FHartwig-Ebersbach-Abstract-Avant-garde-Painting-in-GDR.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Hartwig Ebersbach - Abstract Avant-garde Painting | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Although German Reunification commemorated its 25th anniversary last year, the German art scene continues to be weirdly bipolar. By zooming in on individual careers of artists, however, one may come to appreciate the web of complicated relations that shaped East and West German painting during the Cold War and afterwar... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Hartwig-Ebersbach-Abstract-Avant-garde-Painting-in-GDR.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/feda48ca5e020cede0eb14ecd9e21a3a802e0f742d498219fba032160fd7c752.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:34 | null | null | Richard Kearney's Anatheism: Returning to God after God investigates the possibility of a God after God (ana-theos)... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAnatheism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Richard Kearney's "Anatheism" | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Richard Kearney's Anatheism: Returning to God after God (Columbia UP, 2010) investigates the possibility of a God after God (ana-theos). The ana-theist moment is one of creative 'not knowing' signifying a break with former sureties and inviting the forging of new meanings from the most ancient of wisdoms and the most b... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Anatheism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d3b69e95b2268002819a22efa777b9570fc3bd5efc90054e20e4c3d781a6acc9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:05 | null | null | When Kim Jong Il died on December 17th, I was lucky to be in Singapore. That way I could watch from a salutary distance the froth and drivel that passed for expert American commentary: How can his callow son expect to grapple with octogenarian leaders in the powerful military—won't there be a coup? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FNorth-Korea-totalitarian-succession-by-Bruce-Cumings.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | North Korea's Totalitarian Succession | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | When Kim Jong Il died on December 17th, I was lucky to be in Singapore. That way I could watch from a salutary distance the froth and drivel that passed for expert American commentary: How can his callow son expect to grapple with octogenarian leaders in the powerful military-won't there be a coup? Then again, Kim Jong... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/North-Korea-totalitarian-succession-by-Bruce-Cumings.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/9288640b58b3ba9b954db622baa42e78ea82b86db02ab235209fbed88f9f4d43.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:04 | null | null | Many people, laypeople and scholars alike, assume that the kinds of dispositions that inevitably prevail in the process of biological evolution must be selfish and immoral, rendering humans and other animals bad by nature... However, this idea is misguided because there are significant differences between selfish genes... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Origins-of-Morality.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Origins of Morality | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Many people, laypeople and scholars alike, assume that the kinds of dispositions that inevitably prevail in the process of biological evolution must be selfish and immoral, rendering humans and other animals bad by nature. Such people reason that selfish genes (that is to say, genes that design mechanisms that enable t... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Origins-of-Morality.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6cab33cb36764d401be442bc0c21c1eb17fc0f0038c801b2723644a70242d739.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:56 | null | null | Not long after I moved away from the United States, a college student was arrested in Louisiana for burning an American flag. He was protesting the extra-judicial killing of Osama bin Laden. As one might expect, a patriotic crowd soon gathered to protest the flag burning, and one of them was filmed on YouTube shouting,... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FWhy-I-Emigrated-from-America.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Why I Emigrated from America | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Not long after I moved away from the United States, a college student was arrested in Louisiana for burning an American flag. He was protesting the extra-judicial killing of Osama bin Laden. As one might expect, a patriotic crowd soon gathered to protest the flag burning, and one of them was filmed on YouTube shouting,... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Why-I-Emigrated-from-America.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f13209843dfb39ce28e4e32132304d683f622d146347cd21c383a808655e3c3e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:36 | null | null | The 'Chinese dream' (Zhongguo meng), put forth by the new leader Xi Jinping, aspires to match the American dream. Before we dismiss it as just another copycat slogan, let us consider that in history, glorifying labels have often switched owners. At least China does not claim to be God's own country. Just yet. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Character-of-U-S-China-Relations.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Character of U.S.-China Relations | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Encounters between the United States and China span almost two and a half centuries. Many believe that U.S.-China relations are the most consequential bilateral relationship of our time. My new book, The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, explores not only high-level diplomac... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Character-of-U-S-China-Relations.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b43a2ba074ccd827ab45816a66e5c9e80b5033efcd8c8c3bae054554beba99bf.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:31 | null | null | Bashar al-Asad is not going to sign his own death warrant. A scenario of reconciliation South African style does not seem to be possible... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-struggle-for-power-in-Syria-Nikolaos-van-Dam.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Protests in Syria against Bashar al-Asad's regime | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | During the past three decades The Struggle for Power in Syria has not only been intensively used as an academic textbook in universities all over the world, its newest fully updated fourth edition (2011) also reaches a much wider readership because of its practical value in helping understand in depth the political and... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-struggle-for-power-in-Syria-Nikolaos-van-Dam.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/1bd139ada5590c2356852ed6d8a55efa65fe3eddcb4fc6850fdd2ce6b9e310c7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:14 | null | null | Why ethics in economic behaviour is necessary? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBlind-Spots-Bazerman-and-Tenbrunsel.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | During the trying times that have followed the financial collapse of 2008, a long list of culprits has been blamed: homebuyers, mortgage lenders, bankers, Congress, and the Bush administration. Many of these parties engaged in intentional unethical behavior. But many other parties, including the auditors charged when e... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Blind-Spots-Bazerman-and-Tenbrunsel.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f6c2b61d05f86ab2a1bb86ceb35130701de7a6d47376ac1f8256a7bedeb1307e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:30 | null | null | For as long as humans have fought wars, there have been those willing to kill, and to risk their lives, for profit... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FContracting-peacekeeping-operations-to-the-private-sector.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | UN Peacekeeping Operations: Privatising the Peace | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | For as long as humans have fought wars, there have been those willing to kill, and to risk their lives, for profit. The word soldier comes from the Romans' gold coin - solidus. A soldier by definition fought for money. With the advent of the nation-state, soldiers evolved from mercenaries to "patriots," and this basis ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Contracting-peacekeeping-operations-to-the-private-sector.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/70532b7dbf1f26b60402abab779a01f60a282919fcab977c7cb71998d6b3fa2e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:03 | null | null | Russia's 2012 presidential election follows the controversial parliamentary poll in December last year which resulted in the declared victory of the ruling United Russia party, albeit with a reduced majority. The December election was notable not for its largely predictable outcome, but for the eruption of the mini Ara... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FRussia-Presidential-Election-democracy-tradition-and-history.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Russia’s presidential election: Democracy, tradition and history | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Russia's 2012 presidential election follows the controversial parliamentary poll in December last year which resulted in the declared victory of the ruling United Russia party, albeit with a reduced majority. The December election was notable not for its largely predictable outcome, but for the eruption of the mini Ara... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Russia-Presidential-Election-democracy-tradition-and-history.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/33286d50679a537c81c02778c41b9aea6c26347b92d5e5ba61b3102d77d19759.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:29 | null | null | Camp Nominingue is a residential wilderness camp in the Laurentians, four hours north of Montreal. Founded in 1925 by the Van Wagner family, and set on 400 acres on the shores of Lac Nominingue, the summer camp is based on the belief that the self-esteem of young boys grows the longer they live in tents and go on canoe... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FI-will-find-you-a-wheelbarrow.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | "‘I’ll find you a wheelbarrow" | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Camp Nominingue is a residential wilderness camp in the Laurentians, four hours north of Montreal. Founded in 1925 by the Van Wagner family, and set on 400 acres on the shores of Lac Nominingue, the summer camp is based on the belief that the self-esteem of young boys grows the longer they live in tents and go on canoe... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/I-will-find-you-a-wheelbarrow.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/19b0c32e9340e34245860e3f521227fb26b6441de15b7427d06fc78782f9bdac.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:39 | null | null | Leslie Gelb: Foreign policy is commonsense, not rocket science. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPower-Rules-How-Common-Sense-Can-Rescue-American-Foreign-Policy-Leslie-Gelb.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In "Power Rules" Leslie Gelb, a President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and former Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and columnist for the New York Times, has no ambition to suggest grand strategy for the American foreign policy, nor he tries to sell a spicy ideological narrative to the disillusioned ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Power-Rules-How-Common-Sense-Can-Rescue-American-Foreign-Policy-Leslie-Gelb.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d236bab6dd5b765bef2fd33803046cfbfa17e6fad05e287566e08613b900a737.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:14 | null | null | The phrase Zero Dark Thirty is mysterious and ominous, but meaningless to anyone unfamiliar with the lingo of the United States Armed Forces. Kathryn Bigelow, director of the film with this title, explained on the CBS This Morning show that Zero Dark Thirty is a military term designating thirty minutes past midnight. N... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FZero-Dark-Thirty-Heroism-Torture-Propaganda.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Zero Dark Thirty: Heroism, Torture and Propaganda | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The phrase Zero Dark Thirty is mysterious and ominous, but meaningless to anyone unfamiliar with the lingo of the United States Armed Forces. Kathryn Bigelow, director of the film with this title, explained on the CBS This Morning show that Zero Dark Thirty is a military term designating thirty minutes past midnight. N... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Zero-Dark-Thirty-Heroism-Torture-Propaganda.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a18f0514402444af5d5827f3d5ec4d9a9014ffcdcdf48d02f111a36bcdcd46d6.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:29 | null | null | Is it reasonable to defend a corporate policy which shouts 'Gotcha!' to the vacationer who balks at boarding a cruise ship due to hurricane conditions and requests a refund? Many instances of corporate wrongdoing have been uncovered due to whistleblowers. When the whistleblower is a customer, not a company insider, how... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAre-You-Thinking-about-Taking-a-Cruise.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Are You Thinking about Taking a Cruise? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | This is an account of one consumer's disturbing experience with a cruise operator. It is consumers who buy products and services. It is to consumers that products such as vacation cruises are marketed. Corporate profits and loss depend on consumer choice. I hope that one consumer's dismal experience mine will serve... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Are-You-Thinking-about-Taking-a-Cruise.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/67077ef4012894ecd8ee67a080184eb1352d6277cf8de3b8441913807b9ae380.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:55 | null | null | All over Argentina, his small shrines can be found along roadsides. They are often ramshackle, little more than a crate containing a statue. Sometimes they are painted red or festooned with red ribbons and cloth... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FA-Regional-Christ-the-Folk-Saint-Gaucho-Gil.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | A Regional Christ: the Folk Saint Gaucho Gil | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | All over Argentina, his small shrines can be found along roadsides. They are often ramshackle, little more than a crate containing a statue. Sometimes they are painted red or festooned with red ribbons and cloth. At the center of many of these shrines stands a statue of a man with a long mustache, long black hair, a re... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/A-Regional-Christ-the-Folk-Saint-Gaucho-Gil.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b6ba4421da11ff331873b97d84a8ab1fdf687e044e807f69e7aa8bb0d2a1e29c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:21 | null | null | The historical evidence shows that cities progress through three early phases – as centres of commerce, centres of industry, and then transportation hubs – before becoming financial centres... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Evolution-of-Great-World-Cities-Urban-Wealth-and-Economic-Growth-by-Christopher-Kennedy.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | What Makes A City Great? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Evolution of Great World Cities is a celebration of cities and those who have inquired as to how they work. It tells the tales of several great cities at key junctures in their history: London rebounding after the Great Fire of 1666; New York City triumphing in the Bank War to become financial hegemon of the United... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Evolution-of-Great-World-Cities-Urban-Wealth-and-Economic-Growth-by-Christopher-Kennedy.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/490d421c1b1ab74ff301b19cc2edd83d65662ff2b5717b9f1fcd205d6e2be70e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:22 | null | null | In his Discourse on the 'Origins of Social Inequality,' Jean Jacques Rousseau identified private property, money and inheritance laws as the chief factors in the creation and maintenance of social inequality in European civilization. But his wisdom was incomplete. He would have benefited from reading the second 'Life o... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Poor-and-the-Perfect-The-Rise-of-Learning-in-the-Franciscan-Order.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Learning in the Franciscan Order | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In his Discourse on the Origins of Social Inequality, Jean Jacques Rousseau identified private property, money and inheritance laws as the chief factors in the creation and maintenance of social inequality in European civilization. But his wisdom was incomplete. He would have benefited from reading the second Life of F... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Poor-and-the-Perfect-The-Rise-of-Learning-in-the-Franciscan-Order.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/22454f8fb4fb7cd104198d09f0331d525eca66fdec78e8e235a22b22e952ad21.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:21 | null | null | The Presbyterian poet Marianne Moore comes out of a religious tradition that has been largely severed from the literary and artistic world... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMarianne-Moore-and-the-Just-War-Tradition.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Marianne Moore and the Just War Tradition | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Presbyterian poet Marianne Moore comes out of a religious tradition that has been largely severed from the literary and artistic world. In the omnibus volume Marianne Moore: Woman and Poet critic Patricia Willis says that except for one brief article that she has published in the collection, “no case has previously... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Marianne-Moore-and-the-Just-War-Tradition.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/81c98e061ac8ef5f94732ec61e41060b05361cd4b9ab28b71e2a4170a72c754e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:46 | null | null | In 1991, I left graduate school to take a position teaching in the English department at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, a small agricultural town in the Bighorn Basin east of Yellowstone National Park.... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FIn-Wonderland.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Bernard Quetchenbach | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | 1 In 1991, I left graduate school to take a position teaching in the English department at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, a small agricultural town in the Bighorn Basin east of Yellowstone National Park. I was thirty-six, a slow starter to be sure, but with a child in first grade and a "real job" at a community ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/In-Wonderland.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/c8e5288371ec541b0c79f82e7ac830493cc5699e0d17b1ac8d750cd9cd1b4ffc.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:16 | null | null | I grew up and spent 22 years of my life in Ashdod, an Israeli city located 25 kilometers north of the place we call Gaza. I’ve lived for thirty years in total — and not a single time have I ever been to Gaza. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Truth-about-Gaza.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Truth about Gaza | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I grew up and spent 22 years of my life in Ashdod, an Israeli city located 25 kilometers north of the place we call Gaza. I’ve lived for thirty years in total — and not a single time have I ever been to Gaza. No one in my family has ever been to Gaza. It has taken me some time—I admit, I can be slow—but I have finally ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Truth-about-Gaza.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/752851a776b739ad1a003de7690b08af25ea7758b2aafe3df6408bec0e88b998.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:46 | null | null | Some subjects 'grow on you.' They keep recurring in the materials you read, and the stories you hear. Perhaps these subjects crop-up because you think about them. For me, fiduciary law is one of these subjects. In early 1970s I worked on a treatise: The Regulation of Money Managers, focusing on investment advisers and ... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FFiduciary-Law.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Fiduciary Law | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Some subjects "grow on you." They keep recurring in the materials you read, and the stories you hear. Perhaps these subjects crop-up because you think about them. For me, fiduciary law is one of these subjects. In early 1970s I worked on a treatise: The Regulation of Money Managers, focusing on investment advisers and ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Fiduciary-Law.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5a33f1a04d27f69ee2db5a51133a4481842e713147d23a4ad123b69b40d0c61c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:07 | null | null | The Last Utopia assesses how deeply rooted in history the notion of “international human rights” is... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-last-utopia-by-Samuel-Moyn.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Human Rights in History | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Last Utopia assesses how deeply rooted in history the notion of "international human rights" is. I have long been fascinated by this question since human rights--together with the advocacy and mobilization that surround it--seem so appealing and prestigious in today's developed world. And while there are many argum... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-last-utopia-by-Samuel-Moyn.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5fe55a27b6a184b173f38772dff0c133ca5ce460c51b049b718b219b3279d3fc.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:58 | null | null | Essay on The Institutional Revolutions | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Institutional-Revolution.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Institutional Revolution | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the best known early modern novel. It tells the timeless tale of two young people along a bumpy path destined to bring them together. As one of the great love stories it has been portrayed in film, on stage, and in television. Often such performances focus just on the love s... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Institutional-Revolution.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d385b1e973cd2d35b7820f737ab87f8b52c8799e68bb9c33d070bd1e16010a5f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:55 | null | null | For a millennium, from the seventh to the seventeenth century, Muslims controlled the intercontinental and transoceanic trade between Europe and the Indian Ocean. While doing this, they also created one of the greatest civilizations of the world. They owed this success to a unique economic system: Islamic capitalism... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FIslamic-Capitalism-and-Finance-Origins-Evolution-and-the-Future.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Islamic Capitalism and Finance: Origins, Evolution and the Future | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | For a millennium, from the seventh to the seventeenth century, Muslims controlled the intercontinental and transoceanic trade between Europe and the Indian Ocean. While doing this, they also created one of the greatest civilizations of the world. They owed this success to a unique economic system: Islamic capitalism. T... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Islamic-Capitalism-and-Finance-Origins-Evolution-and-the-Future.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e35cdd61876ab50663bb7437fe052c8bf82f87f583f356f10b6e886a5a5446f8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:14 | null | null | Less Than Human is a book about dehumanization. It is widely recognized that dehumanization plays an important role facilitating acts of violence in genocide, war, and other forms of atrocity. Given this it is surprising to learn that scant attention has been paid to it in the scholarly literature. Scholarly literature... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FLess-Than-Human-Why-We-Demean-Enslave-and-Exterminate-Others.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Less Than Human is a book about dehumanization. It is widely recognized that dehumanization plays an important role facilitating acts of violence in genocide, war, and other forms of atrocity. Given this it is surprising to learn that scant attention has been paid to it in the scholarly literature. Scholarly literature... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Less-Than-Human-Why-We-Demean-Enslave-and-Exterminate-Others.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/7e9bd97154006eb2dbed9fd1f6865fbd5d8729d0881c911d242b7f491a2683a9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:48 | null | null | Imagine you are out and about, perhaps doing some shopping, or planning an evening at the movies with friends. Lots of people are around you, coming and going, all busy with their own plans. You look at them, they look at you. Where do you think they are looking, when they look at you?.. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMirroring-People-The-Science-of-Empathy-and-How-We-Connect-with-Others-by-Marco-Iacoboni.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Mirror Neurons and Empathy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Imagine you are out and about, perhaps doing some shopping, or planning an evening at the movies with friends. Lots of people are around you, coming and going, all busy with their own plans. You look at them, they look at you. Where do you think they are looking, when they look at you? And where do you think you look, ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Mirroring-People-The-Science-of-Empathy-and-How-We-Connect-with-Others-by-Marco-Iacoboni.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e30a6f2800d96be89b12a2e4aab0cbadabb7e56aac29eeb23ec502e0faefafe9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:49 | null | null | The importance of thrift for the American economic progress. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThrift-and-Thriving-in-America-Capitalism-and-Moral-Order-from-the-Puritans-to-the-Present.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Promise of Thrift | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Until recently, the word "thrift" had largely disappeared from the active vocabulary of most Americans. Like chastity and temperance, thrift was well on its way to becoming a virtue relic of a bygone era. Yet just when the word itself seemed on the verge of passing out of use for good, people have suddenly, if a bit un... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Thrift-and-Thriving-in-America-Capitalism-and-Moral-Order-from-the-Puritans-to-the-Present.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/dc7f4a45241e5d0a6b7095b8ac612d98d72d3db1adc0f447b487ebbd0496349a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:38 | null | null | In the midst of a heated political discussion, you may still hear it said that ideas don't matter... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAge-of-fracture-Daniel-Rodgers.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Daniel T. Rodgers | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In the midst of a heated political discussion, you may still hear it said that ideas don't matter. Ideas are mere veils, we say: gauze draped over the harder stuff of interests and prejudice. But in fact, ideas matter tremendously. They frame events into patterns. They shape policies and politics. They fuel ideologies ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Age-of-fracture-Daniel-Rodgers.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/98ec885231d40d0154e5456f946395afce120b6aeb22bfbc7db432dbb0bbc3af.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:58 | null | null | Book excerpt | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAlienated-and-Engaged-Muslims-in-the-West.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | For social scientists, it remains unclear why similar people, in similar circumstances, behave as political actors in such divergent ways. Zak is the poster image for diversity and difference in the West today. Indeed, he is the young man portrayed on the cover of this book. He perches on three cinder blocks-the founda... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Alienated-and-Engaged-Muslims-in-the-West.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f06eec4f1b127060ff4f6e2af325a903166030d32717b13d5f0be0171990f498.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:05 | null | null | Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FFrom-comrades-to-enemies.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | From Comrades to Enemies | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | ***
FROM COMRADES TO ENEMIES
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By Nicholas Khoo
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The Montréal Review, May 2011
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Nicholas Khoo, Collateral Damage: Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011)
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In a speech at Da Binh Square, Hanoi on 12 May 1963, Liu Shaoqi, a senior Chin... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/From-comrades-to-enemies.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/046cf6f1a2907abbdd7dd82d3e8efe22b00127e05eb3bde403b26edae65c9a30.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:48 | null | null | An excerpt from Robert Wexelblatt's new book 'Losses' | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FLosses-by-Robert-Wexelblatt.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Robert Wexelblatt | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The sun hung in a basket from a hook driven into a whitewashed sky. A fluke of spring had presented us with a dog day three and a half months early. Heading up one side of the park, I passed two homeless men panting on separate benches; one wore an orange hunting cap with the earflaps down. I realized that they had to ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Losses-by-Robert-Wexelblatt.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/12b773470dd0418236046c85458a237cb5c355b325e95de505be09d14bc1ad6b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:54 | null | null | Few people in the West believed during the Cold War that the USSR was what its founders and leaders thought it to be. Lenin and Stalin designed it as a new type of federation – a union of ethnic nations or nation-states. Its Union Republics in their turn were also partitioned into ethnic homelands with varying levels o... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Soviet-Union-Federation-or-Empire.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Federation or Empire? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Few people in the West believed during the Cold War that the USSR was what its founders and leaders thought it to be. Lenin and Stalin designed it as a new type of federation - a union of ethnic nations or nation-states. Its Union Republics in their turn were also partitioned into ethnic homelands with varying levels o... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Soviet-Union-Federation-or-Empire.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/970599615eeead0506642b6b291db978eee2388e5f75f3c0d97a99ef082efc45.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:16 | null | null | Kirby Olson's article 'Marianne Moore and the Just War Tradition,' which appears in the August 2014 edition of the Review, restores a mature Christian theological context to Moore's 'In Distrust of Merits,' and provides valuable insight into her meaning, but goes too far in rejecting the meaning his predecessor found, ... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FLetters-Stuart-A-Kurtz-Marianne-Moore.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Stuart A. Kurtz on "Marianne Moore and the Just War Tradition" | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Kirby Olson's article "Marianne Moore and the Just War Tradition," which appears in the August 2014 edition of the Review, restores a mature Christian theological context to Moore's "In Distrust of Merits," and provides valuable insight into her meaning, but goes too far in rejecting the meaning his predecessor found, ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Letters-Stuart-A-Kurtz-Marianne-Moore.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b4f3cfc301c4096bdd39b9e5807bc9fc330b8c2aa275a86b088975f407709a2d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:51 | null | null | Robert Byron's 'The Road to Oxiana' was a smashing success, but was his other great book on The Great Game, the severely neglected 'lost' classic 'The Station,' in some ways even better? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Station-Athos-Treasure-and-Men-Robert-Byron.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | On Robert Byron's "'The Station" | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped."
--Robert Byron, "The Station," 1928, (p. 256) It was through a family friend named Paul Fussell, author of "Abroad: British Travel Writing Between the W... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Station-Athos-Treasure-and-Men-Robert-Byron.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/58c0e4ee1687649aa98fe9a1e45b7d331fa470c3ba440dda23dce60f996bfd57.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:22 | null | null | My Uncle Shirley left our home in Alabama as a Jewish salesman, and turned up in rural South Carolina as a Baptist preacher. Of course, we didn't realize that last fact until we heard it at his funeral eulogy. The rest of his life was shrouded in an even deeper mystery... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FVisiting-Uncle-Shirley.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Visiting Uncle Shirley | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "Anyone who buys a damn Jap car is a traitor." So says Uncle Shirley. We're eating with him at Judy's restaurant in Columbia, just off I-20. My blackened flounder gets stuck in my throat, and I turn to see who else is listening. My parents and I are returning from a weekend trip to Charleston. Strangely, my folks have ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Visiting-Uncle-Shirley.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/9c221a7a704f268bfb33dc30db577761a6744db7f320f639944798d5302aeeeb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:08 | null | null | Cooperation was prominent among the suite of behaviors that marked the emergence of behaviorally modern humans in Africa... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FA-cooperative-species-human-reciprocity-and-its-evolution-by-Bowles-and-Gintis.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Cooperation was prominent among the suite of behaviors that marked the emergence of behaviorally modern humans in Africa. Those living 75,000--90,000 years ago at the mouth of what is now the Klasies River near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, for example, consumed eland, hippopotamus, and other large game. The rock paint... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/A-cooperative-species-human-reciprocity-and-its-evolution-by-Bowles-and-Gintis.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/3da492692ad8c9d0a08019ec2da0f7fecee443b4af29230c2d5e7372cef565a3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:40 | null | null | You can swallow the 'gout du bonheur' for only five Euros at L'as du fallafel in the Rue de Rosiers in the Marais in Paris. The taste of happiness... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSuper-Bowl-Sunday-on-the-Seine.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Americans in Paris | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | You can swallow the "gout du bonheur" for only five Euros at L'as du fallafel in the Rue de Rosiers in the Marais in Paris. The taste of happiness. A stubble-headed young guy in a baseball cap on the cobbles out front offers that and more - the doorway to Nirvana, your lost youth in a pita, and more prosaically, the be... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Super-Bowl-Sunday-on-the-Seine.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/4342f22c6b08872b7957c645ca3699c27a1e7baee55a8e6fa0c89bae8d5fb03d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:16 | null | null | The infinite ethical demand allows us to become the subjects of which we are capable by dividing us from ourselves, by forcing us to live in accordance with an asymmetrical and unfulfillable demand—say the demand to be Christlike—while knowing that we are all too human. Although we can be free of the limiting externali... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Faith-of-the-Faithless.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Oscar Wilde Christianity | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I'd like to begin with a story, a parable of sorts. On May 19, 1897, Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol after two years' detention for acts of gross indecency. He left England for the last time on the same day and traveled to Dieppe. On his arrival in France, Wilde was met by Robert Ross, his loyal friend and s... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Faith-of-the-Faithless.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/271273018daca38b91660521b8a6c504c61a4c066c294401a93fd507e6c414de.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:08 | null | null | Graham Greene was wrong about Vietnam. Not in the main, of course. The Quiet American (1955) still stands as not only the inaugural novel of the American intervention in Vietnam but also as a brilliant exposition on why we were destined to fail... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FGraham-Greene-and-I-were-wrong.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Veteran's trip to Vietnam | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Remember Ho Chi Minh was a poet: please, do not let it all come down to nothing. --W. D. Ehrhart, "Letter" I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. --Michael Herr, Dispatches *** Graham Greene was wrong about Vietnam. Not in the main, of course. The Quiet American (1955) still stands as not onl... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Graham-Greene-and-I-were-wrong.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/02c210573558c5f8c35aaf3fdf47a923fe5568f9bbbc906d55731d6fabc9fb91.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:24 | null | null | Poetry by Sharon Siegel | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAbsent-sunshine.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Absent Sunshine | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | *** ABSENT SUNSHINE *** By Sharon Siegel *** The Montréal Review, September 2011 *** | MORE + LARGER TEXT | - SMALLER TEXT *** Winter, you are cold Crisp, frigid air Hands meet pockets Chills sent down my spine Winter, you are cold Puddles on the sidewalk Ready to freeze over I see palm trees ahead But I feel winter Gu... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Absent-sunshine.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/62820895e035438ee15a683035cafc1786a64e855d44e779a8a712c950ec0911.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:46 | null | null | Traditional Judaism severely curtailed the role women could play in the arena of religious duties. Women were viewed as necessarily limited by biology, as Jewish law considered women unclean during menstruation and for a certain time following childbirth. In fact, anyone even touching such a woman was considered unclea... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMaiden-of-Ludmir.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Maiden of Ludmir | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Traditional Judaism severely curtailed the role women could play in the arena of religious duties. Women were viewed as necessarily limited by biology, as Jewish law considered women unclean during menstruation and for a certain time following childbirth. In fact, anyone even touching such a woman was considered unclea... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Maiden-of-Ludmir.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e09f9dd3102d9c440d477c70a4272744a15d7d813081714684a18744a777824b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:49 | null | null | Before Amanda Bynes went loopy, we had never heard of her. Maybe we missed her on Oprah. Now that we think of it, she probably never went on Oprah... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPublic-figures.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Public Figures | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Before Amanda Bynes went loopy, we had never heard of her. Maybe we missed her on Oprah. Now that we think of it, she probably never went on Oprah. Normally, Oprah wouldn’t bother with a former Nickelodeon child-star unless she was on the rebound, unless she was on the road back from drugs, booze, or legal snafus. It’s... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Public-figures.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/64b7e6b812d97b0533dd9bab1e91039012cc4de83ab334f7b0a0bbe9bc3192fc.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:45 | null | null | Betty Shamieh: "Being connected to two cultures, particularly two cultures that are sometimes at war, gives one insight into what is common about all human beings..." | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBetty-Shamieh.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Betty Shamieh | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Q: Your career to date has been outstanding. You've had plays appear off Broadway and in Europe, are writing your first novel, and worked in various academic positions and have achieved numerous awards, which earlier this year were topped up with you being one of only 20 young artists recognised by UNESCO for promoting... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Betty-Shamieh.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/92d5824524f7802527a893b58c578366eb5ef2d4b35b2a0740543d759878e3cc.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:30 | null | null | Steve Chan: If balance-of-power theory is correct, one should see China's neighbors and other major powers reacting to its rise in the manner predicted. They have not so far, thus presenting an enigma to realism. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FLooking-for-Balance-by-Steve-Chan.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Momentous events invite critical introspection and can sometimes produce paradigmatic shifts. The re-unification of Germany and the end of the Cold War are arguably among such transformative developments since World War II. My book focuses on a third candidate, namely the recent sharp rise of China, auguring another sy... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Looking-for-Balance-by-Steve-Chan.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/59d636c4ba0f1c015f01efacdf07a86685502cccfea7bdbab72a1dc85eccc316.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:35 | null | null | 'What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?' This famous cry of the early Christian Tertullian was answered in the nineteenth century with a resounding response of 'Everything!'... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSocrates-and-the-Jews-Hellenism-and-Hebraism-from-Moses-Mendelssohn-to-Sigmund-Freud.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" This famous cry of the early Christian Tertullian was answered in the nineteenth century with a resounding response of "Everything!". One of the most urgent cultural questions of the age was how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible. Classics domin... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Socrates-and-the-Jews-Hellenism-and-Hebraism-from-Moses-Mendelssohn-to-Sigmund-Freud.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5fe1cd3baf9a521e0820b38b4ee3f4bf30904e73cf2ae9a688125cff94904a75.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:31 | null | null | Essay | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FImagine-living-through-the-progress.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | A consideration on early 20th century American culture | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In this article I aim to explore what it may have felt like to live through the many changes of the early 20th century. It was unquestionably an age of progress for many Americans; if we take progress to mean change. Despite the fact that most people regard progress as positive improvement, change for the better, there... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Imagine-living-through-the-progress.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/48ce47e6ef46f5b6b5f995b963fdefa49ad54eee8df183fa07fcb4447fe614c8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:03 | null | null | Photos | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMontreal-Church%2Findex.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Photo essay by Mark Lavorato | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | | 1 of 10 | NEXT PAGE
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On a visit to Montreal in 1881, Mark Twain wrote, This is the first time I was ever in a city where you couldn't throw a brick without breaking a church window. Over 130 years later, church spires still serrate the city's skyline, rising from every neighbourhood and borough on the island. Th... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Montreal-Church/index.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e11861da214759e897cda24218f95e30c0c2f2aa684c3f555bfa3d3f83450fb8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:35 | null | null | The wedding was over, so Nick and Stephen decided to stop at the ravine. Nick had heard about it while he was working on a house outside of Waterbury... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FA-swim-matt-domino.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Matt Domino | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The wedding was over, so Nick and Stephen decided to stop at the ravine. Nick had heard about it while he was working on a house outside of Waterbury. After all of the drinking from the weekend, they both thought that a cold swim would do them good. They traveled on back roads that Nick knew. It was warm for late Septe... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/A-swim-matt-domino.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f18b238b4abf2c58b6dc15c740c4cc0f64eb34260de314b081925ab199ce44b3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:28 | null | null | Not long ago I had the good fortune to see the Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer at The Frick Collection in New York City. The painting was part of a visiting exhibit of fifteen paintings from the Dutch Golden Age on loan from the Mauritshuis in Amsterdam. The Mauritshuis was then undergoing a renovation. T... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FGirl-with-a-Pearl-Earring.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Girl with a Pearl Earring | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Not long ago I had the good fortune to see the Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer at The Frick Collection in New York City. The painting was part of a visiting exhibit of fifteen paintings from the Dutch Golden Age on loan from the Mauritshuis in Amsterdam. The Mauritshuis was then undergoing a renovation. T... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Girl-with-a-Pearl-Earring.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/720092e45e63dcf8826736849614c2a7b4ada174e6a84313633270b2a155b86e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:37 | null | null | In his book 'Proconsuls: Delegated Political-Military Leadership from Rome to America Today' Carnes Lord argues that the old Roman imperial institution of proconsulship is still useful for America, but only if it is applied according the realities of the day. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FProconsuls-Delegated-Political-Military-Leadership-from-Rome-to-America-Today.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Power of Proconsuls in Rome and America | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In spite of the often bitter disputes among Americans of different political persuasions over the nation's recent struggles in Iraq and Afghanistan, it would probably be widely agreed that the difficulties the United States has encountered in the Middle East since the events of September 11, 2001 are not simply a refle... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Proconsuls-Delegated-Political-Military-Leadership-from-Rome-to-America-Today.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/73ab0b85adaea1ffb9b7f0776a98d8da3b6bbcf0681f05125f9f5178dbc39e6a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:58 | null | null | During the first century of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), an imperial prince, Liu An (d. 122 B.C.E.), gathered together a group of scholars at his court in Huainan, in modern-day Anhui Province . He oversaw a large literary enterprise that produced numerous writings, one of which survives intact: the Huainanzi... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Dao-of-the-Military-Liu-An-Art-of-War.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Liu An's Art of War | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | During the first century of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), an imperial prince, Liu An (d. 122 B.C.E.), gathered together a group of scholars at his court in Huainan, in modern-day Anhui Province. He oversaw a large literary enterprise that produced numerous writings, one of which survives intact: the Huainanzi ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Dao-of-the-Military-Liu-An-Art-of-War.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b3905f211832a1c7377d4571baa6e98c6e0cd674e2b5971ac0592501d2a6189a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:32 | null | null | Mark L. Haas: Ideologies consistently had major effects on leaders' core international perceptions and policies. Most importantly, ideologies went a long way toward determining leaders' understandings of which states were likely to threaten and which states were likely to support their core domestic and international i... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Clash-of-Ideologies-Middle-Eastern-Politics-and-American-Security-by-Mark-L-Haas.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Ideologies and International Relations | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama clearly possessed major differences in their approaches to international affairs. One area, however, in which their views and policies in important ways overlapped was how political ideologies were likely to shape U.S. security, particularly in the Middle East. Although both B... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Clash-of-Ideologies-Middle-Eastern-Politics-and-American-Security-by-Mark-L-Haas.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/2fed6196d9afac7799668e9e1d0e0928977a7bb967ce8ea1019a06ad623108b5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:43 | null | null | The Museum of Fine Arts Houston's exhibition 'WAR/ PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath' includes a photo of a dead man's lower limbs, stocking feet in loafers, the shot chopped off just above the ankles... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2Fwar-photography.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | War Photography | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | THE Museum of Fine Arts Houston's exhibition WAR/ PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath includes a photo of a dead man's lower limbs, stocking feet in loafers, the shot chopped off just above the ankles. The corpse is lying on a patch of dark sand somewhere. David Leeson, the photographer: "By the tim... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/war-photography.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6d460334fc9bf4baa758ebc480af05984b14e07e063e4c505f3c0e9fb3f30e61.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:32 | null | null | Is it possible to prevent or forestall poverty? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FOne-Illness-Away-by-Anirudh-Krishna.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Is it possible to prevent or forestall poverty? How many among the poor of today were not born poor - but fell into poverty? How could their descents into poverty have been stemmed before they occurred? What about those who rise out of poverty? Do they only become marginally non-poor? Or have some actually become rich?... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/One-Illness-Away-by-Anirudh-Krishna.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e962d9d3f716e076cf4c6dde6b768f03ab748618ce7cda49b113ac360fd1b5e7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:05 | null | null | How did our ancestors convert the original level playing field to a stratified society? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Creation-of-Inequality.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | What is Inequality and How it Was Created | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Some 15,000 years ago, our ancestors still lived in small-scale foraging societies whose members were treated as equals. Slowly but surely, however, some of them created larger societies with greater levels of social inequality. By 2500 B.C. virtually every form of inequality known to mankind existed somewhere in the w... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Creation-of-Inequality.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e86a3ab79b7de39a7281fc1034c8e3a6984fed06eaed7a749ef93ffae69e70b2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:59 | null | null | Paradoxically, the promise of Kim Jong-Il might soon come true and North Korea may become a 'rich and prosperous state' – rich in natural resources and empowered by nuclear technologies. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FRare-Earth-Metals-North-Korea-New-Trump-Card.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | North Korea's Natural Resources | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Those who travel to North Korea regularly might have noticed that the last couple of years have brought significant improvement in the country's economic situation. Newly built high-rise apartments, modern cars on the roads and improved infrastructure come as a surprise to visitors. It begs the question, where does Pyo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Rare-Earth-Metals-North-Korea-New-Trump-Card.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ef0d2814ae0439b83157feb8b7932a6cf64962472a4a9d8f7cb4049f1acd035e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:38 | null | null | Prologues and epilogues, so often skimmed and scanned, demand closer inspection if the novel they frame purports or has proven to offer a longer, worthier shelf-life than its run-of-the-mill rivals... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-blindness-of-the-heart-Julia-Franck-book-review.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Blindness of the Heart | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Prologues and epilogues, so often skimmed and scanned, demand closer inspection if the novel they frame purports or has proven to offer a longer, worthier shelf-life than its run-of-the-mill rivals. Rather than merely bookending a humdrum yarn, a good prologue and epilogue will be studded with miniature gems that wink ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-blindness-of-the-heart-Julia-Franck-book-review.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/feae1a3ed7b9141f7f28af114d677e760ca8d034896982e92a8db364d6b55464.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:22 | null | null | There was a man who beat his children. His name was Hans Holder... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSomething-Tolstoyan.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Something Tolstoyan | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I wanted to write something Tolstoyan. Something so heavy-handed you, dear reader, would gnash your teeth and roll your eyes. "Why is your way the only way?" you would think. "How can you be so certain?" you'd cry out. And my implied response would be, "You know, you've already read it." But what to write about? In thi... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Something-Tolstoyan.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6350d3260461dfb3d821d941e32bf43eb13e7b73aac81d1a412efbe2261bf760.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:36 | null | null | Poems by Simon Perchik | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSimon-Perchik-Poetry.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Simon Perchik | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | What more proof do you need! jagged
left behind --a beautiful stone
torn to pieces and near its heart
a tiny rock half drift, half moonlight
that blossomed to become the opposite shore
--all these years in the open
though every wave still smells from stone
the way this sea from its start
was never sure, even now a doub... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Simon-Perchik-Poetry.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a3cfde12a73cfc462301f922d8601c0c0098a6df99814006632774e5414793cb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:10 | null | null | A few years ago, I published a book with this title, responding to a question posed by Gordon Brown... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAdam-Smith-radical-and-egalitarian.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Adam Smith, radical and egalitarian | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | A few years ago, I published a book with this title (1), responding to a question posed by Gordon Brown. Brown, then the UK's finance minister and later Prime Minister, comes from the same small Scottish town as Adam Smith - Kirkcaldy in Fife, north of Edinburgh. At a public lecture in 2002, Brown asked why Smith's leg... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Adam-Smith-radical-and-egalitarian.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5a005b49cda2b87ece60ea26c54d361707b4808125356505b711c82cdd986faf.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:38 | null | null | Before there was post-modernism, there was modernism. Before there was deconstructionism, there was existentialism. I belong to that earlier time... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FHow-I-Became-An-Existentialist.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | How I became an Existentialist | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Before there was post-modernism, there was modernism. Before there was deconstructionism, there was existentialism. I belong to that earlier time. I discovered the existentialists at the age of 20, when I got back to America after spending a year in Israel and found a book on my desk called Existence: A New Dimension i... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/How-I-Became-An-Existentialist.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/059c79091e69ed873b10cd25614d5b82e20d4aa2449c6506caabf05d3d921804.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:52 | null | null | 'Imperialism' is an evocative word. It summons images of grim Roman legions marching through German forests, Maxim machine guns cutting down hordes of Dervishes at Omdurman, or scenes of torture from the classic French film 'Battle of Algiers.' These images share two attributes: they are noxious and they are historical... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FRational-Empires-Institutional-Incentives-and-Imperial-Expansion.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Does Imperialism Have a Future? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "Imperialism" is an evocative word. It summons images of grim Roman legions marching through German forests, Maxim machine guns cutting down hordes of Dervishes at Omdurman, or scenes of torture from the classic French film "Battle of Algiers." These images share two attributes: they are noxious and they are historical... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Rational-Empires-Institutional-Incentives-and-Imperial-Expansion.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ae063f2a4652b73156db5eb3d4ab1ce0154e560771b01a90bc777198911d938f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:19 | null | null | During a recent trip across western Europe by train, my frequent companions were the many strangers, visible outside my train window, who could be seen traversing a vast network of bike paths and walking trails that crisscross the cities and countryside. Europeans of all ages, including seniors, can be seen pedaling fr... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FWalking-and-Bicycling-to-Health.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Walking and Bicycling to Health | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | During a recent trip across western Europe by train, my frequent companions were the many strangers, visible outside my train window, who could be seen traversing a vast network of bike paths and walking trails that crisscross the cities and countryside. Europeans of all ages, including seniors, can be seen pedaling fr... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Walking-and-Bicycling-to-Health.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/21a00c56c87140bc5df11c454d8a439327b42855fc8c0f8dbc728c0234c1b204.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:57 | null | null | In the second decade of the third millennium fast divisions between high art and popular entertainment are dissolving. On the one hand, popular fiction is increasingly recognized not only as a crucial component of democratizing populism but, on occasion at least, also as art... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Art%2520of-Artertainment.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Art of Artertainment | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In the second decade of the third millennium fast divisions between high art and popular entertainment are dissolving—and fast. On the one hand, popular fiction is increasingly recognized not only as a crucial component of democratizing populism but, on occasion at least, also as art. The case in point may be the 2013 ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Art%20of-Artertainment.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/231ff72784067d42180f1e2dd0313691bab86a050b6b1264afc51bd4693c6a7d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:50 | null | null | Occupy Wall Street and the Politics of Deconstruction | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSpectres-of-Marx-Derrida.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Spectres of Derrida | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Jacques Derrida continued to insist in his later years that, contrary to popular perception, his philosophy had not taken a dramatically political or ethical turn in more recent decades. Political or ethical implications, he argued, were implicit in his earlier works, even if those implications were buried within volum... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Spectres-of-Marx-Derrida.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/0bafaa0a375f62136b66424a9c7fd39f5832c64e17676641ffb736579f98dd60.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:00 | null | null | As dawn arises in the Mbya tribe, one of the last remnants of the once large group of the Tupi-
Guarani Amerindians, in the jungle of large trees inside what is now Paraguay, very often a pa’i, a
prophet-singer, rises... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPower-Without-Violence-A-Lesson-from-Tribal-Communism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | A Lesson from Tribal Communism | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | 1. The Prophecy Dance-Song of Lack and Need As dawn arises in the Mbya tribe, one of the last remnants of the once large group of the Tupi-Guarani Amerindians, in the jungle of large trees inside what is now Paraguay, very often a pa'i, a prophet-singer, rises. He turns east, toward the sun, the messenger of the highes... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Power-Without-Violence-A-Lesson-from-Tribal-Communism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/1ce0964cd1d957c4639b923177f32b8c04da7bb1f054368104509df7629029a5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:28 | null | null | What is the influence of global corporations over democracy, national politics and international economy? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Strange-Non-Death-of-Neoliberalism-by-Colin-Crouch.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Neoliberalism, Global Corporations and Democracy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The viability of western democracy is now being put to a severe test: can the economic crisis be tackled in a way that recognizes the situation of the great majority of the population, or must the interests of the banks who caused the crisis in the first place through their irresponsible use of secondary markets always... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Strange-Non-Death-of-Neoliberalism-by-Colin-Crouch.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/8962b87584af9bfbe189b91074481b86b6918ec4e64f6634b168095e8c331052.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:19 | null | null | Alienation is a pervasive but puzzling feature of modern life. It is one of the few theoretical terms from Marxism that has entered into ordinary language... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMarx-and-Alienation-Essays-on-Hegelian-Themes-Sean-Sayers.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Marx and Alienation | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Alienation is a pervasive but puzzling feature of modern life. It is one of the few theoretical terms from Marxism that has entered into ordinary language. There it usually denotes a vague feeling of malaise or meaninglessness. In Marx, however, it has a precise meaning derived from Hegel's philosophy, and it plays a c... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Marx-and-Alienation-Essays-on-Hegelian-Themes-Sean-Sayers.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/aae8526ffc7b77b5e8dd8f9e710babb0adc0b6415d12525cf2083324e3844582.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:23 | null | null | Foreign and domestic policy become difficult to disentangle. Contrary to the current conventional wisdom about the advantages of authoritarian states, American soft power and its open society may actually give the country new power advantages in the twenty-first century. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Future-of-Power-Joseph-Nye.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Power Shifts in the 21st Century | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | As authoritarian regimes like Syria struggle with Twitter and Al Jazeera inflamed insurrections; Iran tries to cope with the cyber sabotage of its nuclear enrichment program; Russia witnesses demonstrations against Vladimir Putin; and China creates a great firewall to filter the internet, it is clear that smart policy ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Future-of-Power-Joseph-Nye.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/898cfffe4dc18d9e0061b59fda2ad09dbbfeb74b40954d3ff7bdcf80c1ffac0a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:15 | null | null | On a week-day morning last fall I welcomed a group of well-dressed adults into my ninth grade classroom. It was Grandparents Day at the school where I teach English, and the development office had asked me to offer a mini-course on a topic of my choosing. I announced that we would be addressing a question that occupies... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSpringtime-in-the-land-of-mothballs.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Springtime in the Land of Mothballs | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | On a week-day morning last fall I welcomed a group of well-dressed adults into my ninth grade classroom. It was Grandparents Day at the school where I teach English, and the development office had asked me to offer a mini-course on a topic of my choosing. I announced that we would be addressing a question that occupies... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Springtime-in-the-land-of-mothballs.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5249a59cfc5bcd2acdb6d220d9e9343fecfee0633937780693c0e92c7653ea53.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:33 | null | null | Richard A. Posner on the reasons for the economic crisis and its effects on American democracy. An essay on his book The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-crisis-of-capitalist-democracy-Richard-Posner.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I completed this book on January 5, 2010-almost 21 months ago as I write this brief introduction to it. My main aim was to give readers who might not be experts in the economics and politics of economic disaster an understanding of the depression ("recession" is too mild a term for it, and "Great Recession" is an oxymo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-crisis-of-capitalist-democracy-Richard-Posner.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/dfefccf8f687f19d90619f65d9345b0f259f7bfae261fa33f531c2f9c9ea42f2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:20 | null | null | A bitter gale sliced its way through the heart of Amsterdam the night of February 22nd, 1672, causing 'severe cold and dryness,' the Hollandse Mercurius later recorded. Dryness is not what one desires when attempting to heat a large, open building filled with wood presses and paper. Dutch buildings in the 17th Century ... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAn-indefatigable-agenda.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | An Inefatigable Agenda | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | A bitter gale sliced its way through the heart of Amsterdam the night of February 22nd, 1672, causing "severe cold and dryness," the Hollandse Mercurius later recorded. Dryness is not what one desires when attempting to heat a large, open building filled with wood presses and paper. Dutch buildings in the 17th Century ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/An-indefatigable-agenda.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/766a8e344857c1005b0b6dec56872a7343d308a81a9b151c9e82b2546a2496f8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:28 | null | null | John Donne has engaged the minds of poets and literary critics for centuries, but what makes him so engaging? Is it the play and paradox of his verse, the audacity of his meter, the range of complexity with which he grapples the world around him? Whatever the case, Donne has proven to be a complex character... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAn-Analysis-of-John-Donne-A-Poet-of-Death.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | An Analysis of John Donne | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | John Donne has engaged the minds of poets and literary critics for centuries, but what makes him so engaging? Is it the play and paradox of his verse, the audacity of his meter, the range of complexity with which he grapples the world around him? Whatever the case, Donne has proven to be a complex character. From his S... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/An-Analysis-of-John-Donne-A-Poet-of-Death.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/be296153a8bbff70a36cecdcccdab246e92ba45094de698341b3c32e30ac8972.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:46 | null | null | An excerpt from 'This Mobius Strip of Ifs' by Mathias B. Freese | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FParable-of-the-Seawall-by-Mathias-B-Freese.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Parable of the Seawall | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The way we were treated as small children is the way we treat ourselves the rest of our life. And we often impose our most agonizing suffering upon ourselves. -Alice Miller *** SOMETHING BY SOMEONE CLOSE to me has been done to me so well and so insidiously and powerfully, systematically, slyly and cunningly and increme... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Parable-of-the-Seawall-by-Mathias-B-Freese.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/704bb39a893b0314811de13d72ee9049bebb5dabba26cf8e892dae78a3b995ca.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:56 | null | null | What are principles that explain the crisis of today's capitalism? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-current-crisis-and-the-essence-of-capitalism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Current Crisis and the Essence of Capitalism | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The worldwide economic downturn is no short-term blip but a full-fledged crisis of capitalism. Amid the din of commentary and political posturing, it is appropriate to return to first principles for a better understanding of the crisis. What are these principles? The answer requires a foray into history. The word "capi... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-current-crisis-and-the-essence-of-capitalism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/97d2c82a573a951537b1f324e218a097ead1e8f3e7ac8d1b723fc9c79283c697.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:56 | null | null | Love is a strong, problematic word, especially put against another word—action. Love and action are like two worlds, separated by abyss. We speak about them with passion and conviction, but do we practice them together? This was the question that Hannah Arendt and Karl Barth were concerned most writing their books on G... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FKarl-Barth-Romans-Hannah-Arendt-The-Human-Condition.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | On Karl Barth's "Romans" and Hannah Arendt's "The Human Condition" | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I. LOVE AND ACTION: INTRODUCTION This essay is built on the fundament of another paper dealing with Barth's commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, entitled The Theology of Catharsis. It is a logical continuation of this first paper and as such, it must bear the same name. The Theology of Catharsis finished with the f... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Karl-Barth-Romans-Hannah-Arendt-The-Human-Condition.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/0e562ca0fc8d4aab9f0746c58391454288597be39eba9ae504812433ce6eafaf.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:26 | null | null | The other day, when stuck on a website dealing with my research area, global energy security, a thought hit me: am I website challenged--unable to navigate the increasingly complex internet sites on the Wild Wild Web...? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FHey-Website-Makers-Shape-Up.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Hey Website Makers, Shape Up | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The other day, when stuck on a website dealing with my research area, global energy security, a thought hit me: am I website challenged--unable to navigate the increasingly complex internet sites on the Wild Wild Web? To see if I was so afflicted, I sent a friend to the same site, and lo and behold, she got stuck too--... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Hey-Website-Makers-Shape-Up.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/3fd4dddc4f018a34d3f1e6615bbf4ce2293bc6e74dee3f1ae6e8b4ed4936c056.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:24 | null | null | On New Year's Day of 1802, the Baptist evangelist John Leland delivered a remarkable gift to the White House: a 1,235 block of cheese... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FEvangelical-Christians-deists-and-America-founding.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Evangelical Christians, Deists, and America’s Founding | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | On New Year's Day of 1802, the Baptist evangelist John Leland delivered a remarkable gift to the White House: a 1,235 block of cheese. Newspapers called it the "mammoth cheese." It came from Leland's village of Cheshire, Massachusetts, sent by evangelical Baptists of New England, to honor their beloved president, Thoma... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Evangelical-Christians-deists-and-America-founding.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/42316e28faa15cdd9cfb2c011fcc4f1207614da9c9cfc74e729fc54ae274bef9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:11 | null | null | Courage, I suggest, is the willingness to risk life and limb for the sake of something. In other words, courage reveals what we care about... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FCourage-The-Politics-of-Life-and-Limb.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Richard Avramenko | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Some years ago, while hiking with my girlfriend in the Canadian Rockies, the issue of courage arose in what was, for me, a new light. Understandably, as a city-slicker from Toronto, she asked if we should be worried about bears. I responded with a half-joke: "I'm not worried about bears-I run much faster than you." We ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Courage-The-Politics-of-Life-and-Limb.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d6178edf9021cd2f4a467176fcb45e9b7377b53e637e4b5480738444ba1aec9c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:36 | null | null | It has been said that people can now choose their rulers, which is plainly absurd. But nowadays, even if you are Pinochet or whoever you are, you can say I’m just asking the people… So, I think, yes we are more likely to see more of them. Apparently these referendums or plebiscites are generally strategically rather th... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2Fon-referendums.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Matt Qvortrup and David Levy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | David Levy: The cover of your book features an image of the shadow of an assault rifle bullet falling on a referendum ballot… Matt Qvortrup: Originally the book title was supposed to be A Balloting to Stop Bullets. The publisher thought it was a bit too populist. I talked to an artist friend who went to great lengths t... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/on-referendums.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/eb6583b2b781b6d2f8b5c12bd35af9b00a5c22333894c15d89e69c3a72f9fc81.json |
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