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[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:41 | null | null | After Jodie Johnston left Nevada with Johnny on his bus, she called from hotels the mornings after shows, excited and eager to report... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-stranger-in-the-snow.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Stranger in the Snow | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | After Jodie Johnston left Nevada with Johnny on his bus, she called from hotels the mornings after shows, excited and eager to report. The crowds were much larger than the nights at the Branding Iron in Waverly when she'd first sung with the Johnny Black Band. Fans loved my songs and Jodie singing them, especially "Tra... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-stranger-in-the-snow.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/2fccde0a45f28ffd7030cba6c29060d7956874da8c4b8dc6ddc911f99017b98b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:58 | null | null | Imagine that a mysteriously powerful scientist offers you choice between two doors... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FIn-Praise-of-Reason.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | In Praise of Reason | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Imagine that a mysteriously powerful scientist offers you choice between two doors. Open door number one and you gain the ability to rationally convince, slowly over time, some of your political opponents of the wisdom of your views. But open door number two and you get a pill that once poured into the water supply, wo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/In-Praise-of-Reason.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a4beddc5dfb0c32f40f82e72730002b0521c1e28478051338321cf6199f1b9a7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:54 | null | null | In his book The Invention Of Peace Michael Howard quotes the nineteenth century English jurist, Sir Henry Maine. “It is not peace which was natural and primitive and old, but rather war. War appears to be as old as mankind but peace is a modern invention… Not only is war to be seen everywhere but it is war more atrocio... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBarbarous-Philosophers.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Barbarous Philosophers | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts together into philosophy" (W.B. Yeats, Nineteen hundred and nineteen) *** In his book The Invention Of Peace Michael Howard quotes the nineteenth century English jurist, Sir Henry Maine. "It is not peace which was natural and primitive and old, but rathe... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Barbarous-Philosophers.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/fdcfe768b6b2f914e0a62565ce8e79d200006cf168bb2610dcd127fba115eb82.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:49 | null | null | It's a long way, in geographical distance and creative quality, from the down and dirty world of MTV's reality show hit Buckwild to the rarefied world of U.S. public television's Downton Abbey, but the two TV series have one thing in common, apart from having their new season premieres within a week in January 2013. Bo... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBuckwild-and-Downton-Abbey-TVs-Social-Reality.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | TV's Social Reality | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It's a long way-in geographical distance and creative quality-from the down and dirty world of MTV's reality show hit Buckwild to the rarefied world of U.S. public television's Downton Abbey, but the two TV series have one thing in common, apart from having their new season premieres within a week in January 2013. Both... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Buckwild-and-Downton-Abbey-TVs-Social-Reality.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/02a0a2fa77846ea6788bda9c2b64ca3d8ae0db96bf41878750b77dc4cf0d835f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:18 | null | null | Badiou's new definition of love, which is at the heart of his new book 'In Praise of Love', sounds like something very old, although stated in a novel way... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FIn-Praise-of-Love.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Alain Badiou's "In Praise of Love" | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "I think it is the task of philosophy, as well as other fields, to rally to (love's) defence. And that probably means, as the poet Rimbaud said, that it also needs re-inventing. It cannot be a defensive action simply to maintain the status quo. The world is full of new developments and love must also be something that ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/In-Praise-of-Love.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/82f4c9c3c85794f56c829ac567f128bd41a59dffd74aa586926b39e452a6b5fa.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:41 | null | null | Computers and literature, computers and art, computers and creative imagination—among hundreds of questions related to the relationship between human mind and machines, Peter Swirski also asks the most important one: under which conditions an intelligent computer would be capable of creative writing? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FFrom-Literature-to-Biterature.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | From Literature to Biterature | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Computers and literature, computers and art, computers and creative imagination—among hundreds of questions related to the relationship between human mind and machines, Peter Swirski also asks the most important one: under which conditions an intelligent computer would be capable of creative writing? This is not a hoku... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/From-Literature-to-Biterature.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/7c27768a38f3c2fdec99bd4d8d85fca5661ff62d3c645c03ac1eef89d4241c7d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:41 | null | null | Politics have returned to Russia, with a vengeance. The contested December 2011 parliamentary elections, which were supposed to be an inconsequential stepping stone on Vladimir Putin's triumphant return to the presidency and the Kremlin, instead gave birth to a serious challenge to the ruling regime... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FState-Building-in-Putin-Russia-Policing-and-Coercion-After-Communism-by-Brian-Taylor.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Myth of Putin the State Builder | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Politics have returned to Russia, with a vengeance. The contested December 2011 parliamentary elections, which were supposed to be an inconsequential stepping stone on Vladimir Putin's triumphant return to the presidency and the Kremlin, instead gave birth to a serious challenge to the ruling regime. A Putin victory in... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/State-Building-in-Putin-Russia-Policing-and-Coercion-After-Communism-by-Brian-Taylor.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e111c95de9300416f3f2007e559796f55f436f142d62899bfad1991ac4f4e2fb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:17 | null | null | Gilbert Rozman on National Identities and Bilateral Relations: Widening Gaps in East Asia and Chinese Demonization of the United States. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FNational-Identities-and-Bilateral-Relations-East-Asian-and-Chinese-Demonization-of-the-United-States.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | National Identities and Bilateral Relations in East Asia | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The vitriol has been flying across East Asia at an unprecedented rate in 2010-13. Following a 2012 edited book, East Asian National Identities: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism, this second book in a three-volume series puts this pungent atmosphere in perspective. Shifting the focus from comparisons and the evol... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/National-Identities-and-Bilateral-Relations-East-Asian-and-Chinese-Demonization-of-the-United-States.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/035a9eb650e29e6f3a429b046d69bd6ced10879bdab559d6c0f1c6192ba98462.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:54 | null | null | Short story by Andrew MacQuarrie | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FCaleb.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Andrew MacQuarrie | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Exactly one year after the worst of all days, they return. There are seven of them now. There were six when it happened. Five of them have returned every day since it happened. Three hundred and sixty-five times they have retraced each step. Three hundred and sixty-five times they have relived each dreadful moment of t... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Caleb.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6a4162ac9acad0ce1595a2f32bfd2f6000e5531e2bb99f8bee79ef9960b35d04.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:57 | null | null | A Review of The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature
And the Pursuit of Social Justice. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2Ffairness-and-the-social-contract.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Fairness and the Social Contract | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It seems that fairness is an idea whose time has come. True, some cynics view fairness as nothing more than a mask for self-interest. But the cynics are wrong. One of the important findings of the emerging, multi-disciplinary science of human nature is that humans do, indeed, have an innate sense of fairness. We regula... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/fairness-and-the-social-contract.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/0508ec80ac68f01fece81860367c10f7e052b20065063583fe99c4bad0201115.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:16 | null | null | It has become commonplace to attribute the rise of modern political thought in the West to a process of “secularization.” In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, so the story goes, political thought was fundamentally Christian, an exercise in applied theology... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Hebrew-republic.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Hebrew Republic | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It has become commonplace to attribute the rise of modern political thought in the West to a process of "secularization." In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, so the story goes, political thought was fundamentally Christian, an exercise in applied theology. To ask what form our political lives should take was, during th... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Hebrew-republic.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ab3a83416b4962ce9312768d7bcec62481c40b33ddca1673070fe603590007fd.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:49 | null | null | Humanity's single greatest achievement is, perhaps, to understand something about the way that the world really works... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FDepth-an-account-of-scientific-explanation-Michael-Strevens.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Scientific Explanation | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Humanity's single greatest achievement is, perhaps, to understand something about the way that the world really works. I take understanding to be a matter of knowing correct scientific explanations: explanations of why particles have mass, why perpetual motion machines are impossible, how complex life could evolve from... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Depth-an-account-of-scientific-explanation-Michael-Strevens.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/842f67ed6982615e7c13f6f21ed7d03cb321b60891ae870b28b975ac61c8aec0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:50 | null | null | I rounded the busy corner at the traffic circle, dodging the mass of humanity that slides through Delhi on any given morning. Between all the movement I caught a glimpse of him, and as I slipped forward through the crowds he came into full view. He sat propped up against the stone wall on one edge of the road, his body... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe_Lottery.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Andrew Lodge | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I rounded the busy corner at the traffic circle, dodging the mass of humanity that slides through Delhi on any given morning. Between all the movement I caught a glimpse of him, and as I slipped forward through the crowds he came into full view. He sat propped up against the stone wall on one edge of the road, his body... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The_Lottery.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b787656f4df358dbbe0e3f833acec956a4e6b4c6785861b5d170a0a1204819c9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:14 | null | null | Serbia is headed down the drain-again. Or so the analysts would have you believe. The surprising defeat of Serbia 's Western-oriented, pro-reformist President Boris Tadic (47.31%), by the former arch nationalist, Tomislav Nikolic (49.54%) in the presidential elections held on May 20, set forth the predictable tsunami o... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSerbia-New-President-A-Nationalist-Yes-but-a-Democrat-Too.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Serbia’s New President: A Nationalist, Yes, but a Democrat Too | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Serbia is headed down the drain-again. Or so the analysts would have you believe. The surprising defeat of Serbia 's Western-oriented, pro-reformist President Boris Tadic (47.31%), by the former arch nationalist, Tomislav Nikolic (49.54%) in the presidential elections held on May 20, set forth the predictable tsunami o... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Serbia-New-President-A-Nationalist-Yes-but-a-Democrat-Too.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/323372686cbe11a648744c3148945f364027b718821df76d9a946936f0e74df4.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:32 | null | null | Democracies are not inherently utopian, but the aim of the modern democratic longing – an age of equality, free from privation and strife – unmistakably is. That those who harbor this longing tend not to consider themselves utopians does little to confute the character of their aims. Many of the greatest utopians of th... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FNietzsche-and-Tocqueville-on-Our-Democratic-Future.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Nietzsche and Tocqueville on Our Democratic Future | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Democracies are not inherently utopian, but the aim of the modern democratic longing – an age of equality, free from privation and strife – unmistakably is. That those who harbor this longing tend not to consider themselves utopians does little to confute the character of their aims. Many of the greatest utopians of th... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Nietzsche-and-Tocqueville-on-Our-Democratic-Future.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a1e5ea38c3c6f631e665adfe9e1a16d8c30abc64112c65b919391b226195be87.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:44 | null | null | 'Stay out the way, it's a Southern Thing,' sings Patterson Hood of The Drive-By Truckers. Of course, Hood's is not the only voice warning that outsiders won't ever 'get' this 'Southern thing.' Plenty of insiders like me don't get it either. I love the Truckers, have all their records... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FListening-to-Neil-Young-in-All-the-Wrong-Places-A-Southern-Rock-Memoir.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Listening to Neil Young in All the Wrong Places: A Southern Rock Memoir | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "Stay out the way, it's a Southern Thing," sings Patterson Hood of The Drive-By Truckers. Of course, Hood's is not the only voice warning that outsiders won't ever "get" this "Southern thing." Plenty of insiders like me don't get it either. I love the Truckers, have all their records. I first learned of them through re... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Listening-to-Neil-Young-in-All-the-Wrong-Places-A-Southern-Rock-Memoir.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b4f0e5501cd91b3259a6b7988229121960f01e7656ea619e8d53478a6c5c6f1a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:17 | null | null | Let us now exhume the corpse of Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. I will bring this work into the light from the dark recessed dungeons of scholarly contention, steal its meaning from under the haughty upturned nose of self-indulgent and absurd origins. Pym is not about a man tapping in... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FEdgar-Allen-Poe-The-Narrative-of-Arthur-Gordon-Pym-of-Nantucket.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | On Poe's Pym | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Get up out of your comfortable bed inside your heated house and put on your rosy slippers, if you must. And place those puffy slippers on the clean crisp morning carpet and walk through the door out along the manicured front walkway, the brittle leaves prickle passed in the morning breeze poking about like sleepy spide... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Edgar-Allen-Poe-The-Narrative-of-Arthur-Gordon-Pym-of-Nantucket.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/cc6478a0712613bf79002ccd60ff188e1020d89a9ed6d762c778b09d2c1ac17a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:52 | null | null | The greatest breach in nature, philosopher William James wrote in 1890, 'is the breach from one mind to another...' | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAnimals-and-the-Human-Imagination.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Animals and the Human Imagination | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The greatest breach in nature, philosopher William James wrote in 1890, "is the breach from one mind to another." It is impossible, he argued, for any individual to know with certainty the thoughts, feelings, and quality of personal consciousness of any other individual. By individual, of course, he meant humans. In 19... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Animals-and-the-Human-Imagination.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/14138598cc272f0070d4892793082354bb8ded6d61d7d6cd015b36f292cb12c1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:47 | null | null | François Rabelais was born towards the end of the 15 th century near Chinon, France. After receiving an education in French Catholic schools, he became a monk in the Order of St. Benedict, later going on to study medicine. In 1532, he published Pantagruel, followed in 1534 by Gargantua... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FRabelais-Brother-John-Humor-and-Humanism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Rabelais’ Brother John: Humor and Humanism | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | François Rabelais was born towards the end of the 15th century near Chinon, France. After receiving an education in French Catholic schools, he became a monk in the Order of St. Benedict, later going on to study medicine. In 1532, he published Pantagruel, followed in 1534 by Gargantua. It is difficult to discern exactl... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Rabelais-Brother-John-Humor-and-Humanism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b138e42061b1c59dcf237c16b46800b4f7df329f45654c0e291bfd02a753bc18.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:23 | null | null | Book Review | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2Fthe-tunnel.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Ernesto Sábato "The Tunnel" | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In his essay 'The Argentine Writer and Tradition' Borges talks of a 'rupture' between his country and Europe, New World and Old, and that 'we Argentines are cut off from the past'. Such detachment can be advantageous as it encourages rediscovery on the part of the Argentine writer, a re-delving into the history and cul... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/the-tunnel.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/746286976ddc25d4470f2aa0b08fdcad218ecac147593fa855a512bf770b0963.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:18 | null | null | Humans, it has been said since Aristotle, are rational animals. Those who scoff at the phrase misunderstand it as contrasting with irrationality. But the proper contrast is with the non- rational, or arational. Inanimate objects are arational, because it makes no sense to tax them with irrationality. Humans are rationa... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FWhy-Think-Evolution-and-the-Rational-Mind-by-Ronald-de-Sousa.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Evolution and the Rational Mind | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Humans, it has been said since Aristotle, are rational animals. Those who scoff at the phrase misunderstand it as contrasting with irrationality. But the proper contrast is with the non-rational, or arational. Inanimate objects are arational, because it makes no sense to tax them with irrationality. Humans are rational... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Why-Think-Evolution-and-the-Rational-Mind-by-Ronald-de-Sousa.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/dcb139e185c48ac34be9b371fa741f69f12ec5eb5557eeb3b581e491e16f394f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:23 | null | null | In March this year, the moulting of the political structure of the People's Republic of China was completed at the annual plenary session of the National People's Congress and the old faces at the top politely offered their seats to their younger colleagues... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FChina-Facelift-Economic-Development-and-Political-Transition.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | China’s Facelift: Economic Development and Political Transition | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In March this year, the moulting of the political structure of the People's Republic of China was completed at the annual plenary session of the National People's Congress and the old faces at the top politely offered their seats to their younger colleagues. The facelift, taking place after the set interval of ten year... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/China-Facelift-Economic-Development-and-Political-Transition.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/787ff40ca561f2be89d4f69b0d35de56f4acf24cffddae303f74091743a30d5d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:25 | null | null | Are the French really so anti-American? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAmerican-and-French-relationship-history-and-politics.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The French celebrate… Americans? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Are the French really so anti-American? The American and French relationship suffered an enormous rupture during the public quarrel at the United Nations over Iraq, and the subsequent U.S. invasion in Spring 2003. The transatlantic rift suddenly was wide and deep, as if some devilish power had sped up plate tectonics a... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/American-and-French-relationship-history-and-politics.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f91ee5c14dc3b11c2c3fc8892008bf5bb58479c72fd771beebd3ffd2e89753dc.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:29 | null | null | 'Art for art's sake' is a much misunderstood phrase. In the public imagination it is invariably the oriflamme of Decadents and Aesthetes... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FOn-art-for-arts-sake.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | On Art for Art's Sake | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | 'Art for art's sake' is a much misunderstood phrase. In the public imagination it is invariably the oriflamme of Decadents and Aesthetes. It has become the boogeyman of an art loosed from the moorings of morality and devoid of meaning. The conventional wisdom has, in this sense, tended to echo the sentiments of George ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/On-art-for-arts-sake.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6b44bc42055134113c6b65a2400db064cc104574f57bad19d0a233aee5f151b3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:19 | null | null | State policies on religion are the result of ideological struggles between the defenders of two types of secularism. In the US, the dominant ideology is 'passive secularism,' which allows public visibility of religion. The dominant ideology in France and Turkey, in contrast, is 'assertive secularism,' which aims to con... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSecularism-and-State-Policies-Toward-Religion-The-United-States-France-and-Turkey.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Passive and Assertive Secularism | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The political impact of religion has gained a global salience in the post-Cold War world, especially in the aftermath of 9/11. Religion today is a source of political cleavage in different parts of the world. Even secular states have been deeply concerned with religion and engaged it on many fronts. Secularism plays an... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Secularism-and-State-Policies-Toward-Religion-The-United-States-France-and-Turkey.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5139e6177a457e12dcbd664c60d92c30f8519a010af379134c6de5cfa6b17830.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:37 | null | null | Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously is a brief overview of the history of philosophizing about film, which begins with a survey of early film theorists that had a philosophical bent (like Munsterberg and Eisenstein) and with profiles of the two most significant writers in the field so far, Stanley Cavell and N... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FTaking-movies-seriously.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Taking Movies Seriously | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Let me begin by thanking the editor of The Montreal Review for this occasion to reflect on my work in the philosophy of film, in connection with its feature on my second book Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously, a 2008 entry in the "Short Cuts" series on cinema published by Wallflower Press. I began my career ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Taking-movies-seriously.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e721fe51093e040ead1afbc9ca5831fb623b9b61c31214ef2345b8916d70f72f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:52 | null | null | Social scientists have been wary of applying Darwin's ideas. In our book "Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution" (published 2010 by the University of Chicago Press) we argue that these misgivings are ungrounded... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FDarwin-Conjecture.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Social scientists have been wary of applying Darwin's ideas. In our book Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution (published 2010 by the University of Chicago Press) we argue that these misgivings are ungrounded. We show in detail that prominent objections to the idea that... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Darwin-Conjecture.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a7ce2916343215eb6f73194c1b1d5ea363fa9198c2e603ec1f251412d0f79dad.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:13 | null | null | The ongoing process of revolutionary change in the Middle East and North Africa may not have spent all its potential force yet, but even this far, it has altered the world attitude to the region and its political folk culture. In particular, the outcome of the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya seem to have dented t... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FArab-Spring-Islam-and-Democracy.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Arab Spring, Islam and Democracy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The ongoing process of revolutionary change in the Middle East and North Africa may not have spent all its potential force yet, but even this far, it has altered the world attitude to the region and its political folk culture. In particular, the outcome of the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya seem to have dented t... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Arab-Spring-Islam-and-Democracy.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ce50300b276dbee3eb5dbde67e95269d472c9bcee7545167ce87f14c365a6c21.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:36 | null | null | In the summer of 1943 Fred Rose, a candidate for the Labour Progressive Party, a communist party alias, was elected to the Canadian parliament in a by election in the federal constituency of Cartier, back then a working class district in the heart of Montreal... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSoviet-Espionage-in-Canada-The-Fred-Rose-Affair.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Soviet Espionage in Canada, the Fred Rose Affair | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In the summer of 1943 Fred Rose, a candidate for the Labour Progressive Party, a communist party alias, was elected to the Canadian parliament in a by election in the federal constituency of Cartier, back then a working class district in the heart of Montreal. The dwellings of Cartier, today part Le Plateau, part Mile ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Soviet-Espionage-in-Canada-The-Fred-Rose-Affair.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/fccb4b6facfef58d2a2db1d61950bfa8c4c172d19a12d50f37b8f8ec1e166f1d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:09 | null | null | The essay is perhaps the most accessible and democratic of all forms of writing. All it requires is a thesis and a discussion; the rest is up to the authors to present creatively their ideas and arguments... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-essay-Toward-a-New-Narrative-Nonfiction.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | John Pahle | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "You do what you do moderately well. Now you have to ask yourself, is it worth doing?" -Mark Levensky I. The essay is perhaps the most accessible and democratic of all forms of writing. All it requires is a thesis and a discussion; the rest is up to the authors to present creatively their ideas and arguments. The curre... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-essay-Toward-a-New-Narrative-Nonfiction.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/fd584d689c81d4538eb69ca57de53b023322eb23e7769216b4412050738b5a08.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:18 | null | null | It's been a splendid July day in Yellowstone. Cara and I have hiked through a blaze of wildflowers... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FYellowstone-Red-Summer.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It's been a splendid July day in Yellowstone. Cara and I have hiked through a blaze of wildflowers: elephant heads, monument plant, rein orchid, larkspur, monkshood, and more; watched a coyote pouncing its way across a meadow; and looped down Dunraven Pass as a thunderstorm spun a rainbow over Tower Falls. Now, on our ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Yellowstone-Red-Summer.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/4ba51f71c25dce02c270c1ce4b34b9b45c657fe31f075ea30556ddf6f796e690.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:17 | null | null | I began researching Starring New York before I finished my prior book, Cowboys as Cold Warriors. In that book I considered a group of film westerns in their relationships to U. S. Cold War culture and politics from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. As I developed that project, I saw how those narratives... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FStarring-New-York-filming-the-crime-and-the-glamour-of-the-long-1970s.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | New York, Film, and the Reconception of the World | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I began researching Starring New York before I finished my prior book, Cowboys as Cold Warriors. In that book I considered a group of film westerns in their relationships to U. S. Cold War culture and politics from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. As I developed that project, I saw how those narratives about the rela... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Starring-New-York-filming-the-crime-and-the-glamour-of-the-long-1970s.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/3a440498920e0ed9a848b4690684f92ccaa2995d994287bbe66ebd54a4841c0c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:12 | null | null | Poetry by L.N.Nixon | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPoetry-Lauren-Nicole-Nixon.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Lauren Nicole Nixon | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | *** POETRY *** By Lauren Nicole Nixon *** The Montréal Review, November 2011 *** | MORE + LARGER TEXT | - SMALLER TEXT *** Letter #4: Telling
dear claudette, the fact of the matter is that echoes
pose a threat. that being said, can you name the place
that exists between a waft of nostalgia and a haunting?
I've been try... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Poetry-Lauren-Nicole-Nixon.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b8e85eb4c673839afd2a03a2ff18f4b3791e9ce52c8575440ea7c8c7b93a2657.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:00 | null | null | Einat Wilf was a member of the Knesset between 2010-2013, representing a break-away Labour party faction under Ehud Barak. A graduate of Harvard University, she holds a Ph.D. in political science from Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Born and raised in Israel, she grew up in Jerusalem, served as an IDF Intelli... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FRumpus-in-The-Middle-East.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Rumpus in The Middle East | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Part 1, 9 June 2014. At Ms Wilf’s home in North Tel Aviv. David Levy: One might suppose that with the region in a state of chaos –Iraq, Syria, Libya – this may not be the most propitious time to try to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict. How then might one explain the American president’s apparent determination to a... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Rumpus-in-The-Middle-East.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/44874260c2406007eed2b0c586c5c20d82be1138ec55edd4f7e26db731211fbd.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:03 | null | null | States of War addresses one of the most pressing concerns of modern democratic states: how to reconcile the foundational drive to defend the nation with the principles of law and civic rights?.. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FStates-of-War-Enlightenment-Origins-of-the-Political-by-David-Bates.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | David William Bates | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | States of War addresses one of the most pressing concerns of modern democratic states: how to reconcile the foundational drive to defend the nation with the principles of law and civic rights? Conceptually and historically, these two important dimensions of the modern state-sovereignty and the rule of law-have distinct... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/States-of-War-Enlightenment-Origins-of-the-Political-by-David-Bates.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/590972eb2488a8ab7ed7735daaf119e72d8db3b49b38e92138644b12d713f772.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:00 | null | null | Excerpted from 'The Souls of the Greeks: An Inquiry' by Michael Davis | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Soul-of-the-Greeks-An-Inquiry.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Soul of Achilles | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The question of soul in the West has been shaped by Christianity. While the Christian soul in its various incarnations clearly has great bearing on our lives, its origin in ordinary experience is less clear. As this soul is thought to be what gives us our identity over time, it is in some way not itself temporal. Nor i... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Soul-of-the-Greeks-An-Inquiry.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f91b066cfcbd6f062e4bee01b5bde6c0ad8c4a52418f8073c23eb15e92386587.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:37 | null | null | The contemporary novel has many tools available to it in order to construct its work. Novels are meant to create their own plausible and realistic worlds wherein events take place and characters develop. These stories are told from many perspectives, the third-person narrator perhaps still the most popular. However, th... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FNovel-of-consciousness.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Novel of Consciousness and World System | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The contemporary novel has many tools available to it in order to construct its work. Novels are meant to create their own plausible and realistic worlds wherein events take place and characters develop. These stories are told from many perspectives, the third-person narrator perhaps still the most popular. However, th... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Novel-of-consciousness.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ae42527d8da3a45907c237d6dc1c072be4392fcaca8a71998b0a46f518e046a7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:26 | null | null | Centuries of human endeavor including animal domestication, agriculture, market economy, industrialization, science, have come between the Garden of Eden and us. This regrettable separation has incited archeology to dig into a very distant past in search of this garden of our lost innocence, allegedly once in the neigh... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-big-city-as-Garden-of-Eden.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The big city as Garden of Eden | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Centuries of human endeavor including animal domestication, agriculture, market economy, industrialization, science, have come between the Garden of Eden and us. This regrettable separation has incited archeology to dig into a very distant past in search of this garden of our lost innocence, allegedly once in the neigh... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-big-city-as-Garden-of-Eden.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/cca35645cf2a264e74fb0523f7c0cbab8bff7a80582ad979e849791f4f0c5fc1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:18 | null | null | There is no place in the world like Churchill Downs on Derby Day. Yes, of course, strictly speaking, there is no place in the world just like any other on any given day... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Kentucky-Derby.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Kentucky Derby | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | There is no place in the world like Churchill Downs on Derby Day. Yes, of course, strictly speaking, there is no place in the world just like any other on any given day. But when I and others make the "no place in the world" comment, we are not speaking strictly, are we. We are loosely saying that the Kentucky Derby is... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Kentucky-Derby.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/97beb0512d75038b3b25afab4be97ddb0ea81d04287aa49426ee364c64739503.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:22 | null | null | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber is one of the world's most famous studies in social science, competing for the first place with works such as Capital by Karl Marx and Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-protestant-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber is one of the world's most famous studies in social science, competing for the first place with works such as Capital by Karl Marx and Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. What accounts for its fame and that "the Protestant work ethic" has become ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-protestant-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/bb8dde974f02c19d8bd540abb767f0ee3d86ef86b2f449dee95fb74f8a1eea47.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:42 | null | null | Even as he became a celebrity in the world of art, Willem de Kooning took pride in remaining an ordinary man, living (he liked to say) as he had when he was unknown and poor... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBetween-sense-and-de-Kooning-by-Richard-Shiff.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | by Richard Shiff | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Even as he became a celebrity in the world of art, Willem de Kooning took pride in remaining an ordinary man, living (he liked to say) as he had when he was unknown and poor. He resisted the aesthetic and intellectual fashions of his era. He loathed being classified as either an abstractionist or a figure painter; he s... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Between-sense-and-de-Kooning-by-Richard-Shiff.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/41e5dccfd9491389bd8402c300a1febce5be129c4049e50e0b6562126d709dda.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:34 | null | null | An American president, feted as the inviolable creature of Camelot, accompanied by a pristine, porcelain wife and a sense of opportunity, is felled by an assassin while touring Dallas on November 22, 1963. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FConspiracy-and-the-Death-of-John-Fitzgerald-Kennedy.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Conspiracy and the Death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | An American president, feted as the inviolable creature of Camelot, accompanied by a pristine, porcelain wife and a sense of opportunity, is felled by an assassin while touring Dallas on November 22, 1963. John F. Kennedy needed to make a showing in Texas ahead of the next presidential campaign. To carry Texas, much wo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Conspiracy-and-the-Death-of-John-Fitzgerald-Kennedy.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/52d188701eacaea4c00b90854af914f87bc7cf79e27167f74aceff061d1f36b1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:26 | null | null | In a paper I wrote on Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party,' I think in the late-nineties, I started by presenting, in brief, the following facts and numbers... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FKatherine-Mansfield-The-Garden-Party.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party' | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | i. In a paper I wrote on Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party,' I think in the late-nineties, I started by presenting, in brief, the following facts and numbers. 30% of the programs on French television, at the time the source I used did its research, consisted of news or documentary type broadcastings. The correspo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Katherine-Mansfield-The-Garden-Party.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/89aab4e84ed17c169c95e829c08e315d4978d4a71727ac85567a84d7da70d8a7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:42 | null | null | “There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism,” wrote the great man of German letters Walter Benjamin more than seventy years ago. I was reminded of the relevance of these much-quoted words at a recent conference at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, wher... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FGiving-Barbarism-its-Due.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Commemorative Monuments in Germany | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | “There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism,” wrote the great man of German letters Walter Benjamin more than seventy years ago. I was reminded of the relevance of these much-quoted words at a recent conference at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, wher... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Giving-Barbarism-its-Due.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/9c578ee2df22334ed21d5a574cc5fd646d498cec5906381739bbc1919ec1621f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:12 | null | null | There's an elderberry tree between my house and Edgar's house, in the wash filled with desert grass... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPhoebe-and-Edgar-in-the-garden-of-America.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Phoebe and Edgar in the Garden of America | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | There's an elderberry tree between my house and Edgar's house, in the wash filled with desert grass. My dad says it shouldn't grow because there isn't enough water in this place to fill up a belly button, but it grows anyway. It's empty inside, an umbrella. You have to pull the branches up like skin, and only me and Ed... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Phoebe-and-Edgar-in-the-garden-of-America.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/63d03502b352c5d2ed2292b311ffe23cb80442409f3dad7ad9e3a264113db3b2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:52 | null | null | Dialogues tells a story about how we got to where we are and hopes that the very telling of that story will help create a way for readers themselves to engage in reasonable dialogues about matters of faith... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FDialogues-between-faith-and-reason.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Dialogues between Faith and Reason | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Dialogues tells a story about how we got to where we are and hopes that the very telling of that story will help create a way for readers themselves to engage in reasonable dialogues about matters of faith. "Where we are"-assuming that "we" refers to contemporary Western and largely Christian societies-is a paradoxical... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Dialogues-between-faith-and-reason.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5db777b564195ca5314a3fe69351172f80550980decc3cdd9b2e14b954c93929.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:30 | null | null | Recent scandals in Canada, laid bare by Quebec's Charbonneau Commission and the press, have shown how a tight network of city bosses, construction kings and political fund raisers can determine the award of major contracts and the financial power of political parties... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FGlobal-Corruption-Money-Power-and-Ethics-in-the-Modern-World.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Laurence Cockcroft | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Recent scandals in Canada, laid bare by Quebec's Charbonneau Commission and the press, have shown how a tight network of city bosses, construction kings and political fund raisers can determine the award of major contracts and the financial power of political parties. The fact that three mayors of cities in Quebec have... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Global-Corruption-Money-Power-and-Ethics-in-the-Modern-World.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/40b294855e0b81ec565d0a3e62e0735124265d75c72fa1bb36da15778f65bdf8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:08 | null | null | The fates and the fortunes of Miss America winners from 1921 to 2012 | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMiss-America-Winners-List-from-1921-to-2012.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Miss America Fates and Fortunes | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Margaret Gorman, 1921, won the title of Miss America in sea-green chiffon, and later owned a greyhound named Long Goodie. Mary Campbell, 1922 and 1923, was the only two-time Miss America, and lied about her age to compete. Ruth Malcolm, 1924, published for the benefit of other aspiring Miss Americas her ten rules for b... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Miss-America-Winners-List-from-1921-to-2012.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/47b450bb06e36cea492e7ea3ca446bf4c57ca724ea2b67083c5421e2071a39d2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:32 | null | null | When my best friend Nigel and I were fourteen we started a band. Neither of us played a musical instrument. So my father took promo photos for us instead... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FWe-Cant-All-Be-Gods.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | We Can’t All Be Gods | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | When my best friend Nigel and I were fourteen we started a band. Neither of us played a musical instrument. So my father took promo photos for us instead. He set us against white sheets tacked to a wall in the living room, with a wooden chair, an empty vase on a small table, and my cat as props. We modeled ourselves af... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/We-Cant-All-Be-Gods.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/17cc49df82868201d0df918017c99d9717772103e344bb470ab2e472d1239a8a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:35 | null | null | What is the future of the left parties and movements after the 2008 financial crisis? A short historical overview. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FWhat-is-Left-of-the-Left-Democrats-and-Social-Democrats-in-Challenging-Times.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Future of the Left | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | When the "great recession" hit in September, 2008, it seemed that an era had ended. Since the 1980s, if not before, a pro-market consensus had governed economic policy-making and constrained political options in the advanced countries. For three decades serious politics had been about relying upon markets rather than t... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/What-is-Left-of-the-Left-Democrats-and-Social-Democrats-in-Challenging-Times.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/64a5f10ae20144efa3816b20bc7f910e5066023cff8e9936f93e3241379e8a7c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:26 | null | null | Unbeknownst to many, the world is undergoing a monumental change with regard to the understanding and practice of the proper relationship between religion and politics... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FRadical-democracy-and-political-theology.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Radical Democracy and Political Theology | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Unbeknownst to many, the world is undergoing a monumental change with regard to the understanding and practice of the proper relationship between religion and politics. The modern, liberal, secular norm that fancied a "wall of separation" has been breached, if not entirely broken down. Indeed, some might question wheth... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Radical-democracy-and-political-theology.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d735ff2adeb71251560e7f6117e86bcf3440df3a9a1abc0cfadc8679f082316b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:23 | null | null | For an exhibition like Lyonel Feininger: From Manhattan to the Bauhaus, the greatest danger isn't incoherence, or sprawl, or over-ambition. It's that everything might cohere a little too methodically. In this eighty or so years of artistic activity--an eighty years that included forays into painting, cartooning, photog... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FLyonel-Feininger-at-Montreal-Museum-of-Fine-Arts.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Lyonel Feininger: From Manhattan to the Bauhaus | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | For an exhibition like Lyonel Feininger: From Manhattan to the Bauhaus, the greatest danger isn't incoherence, or sprawl, or over-ambition. It's that everything might cohere a little too methodically. In this eighty or so years of artistic activity-an eighty years that included forays into painting, cartooning, photogr... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Lyonel-Feininger-at-Montreal-Museum-of-Fine-Arts.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6a0c6dcb62d0ecfc1f52209049c2baef0c7de0060c812de4af7847de8a9b243b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:53 | null | null | The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is currently exhibiting Chris Burden's Metropolis II, a 20-by-30 foot, multi-storied installation circulating 1,100 toy cars about 100 times over 18 traffic ways at scale speeds of 230-240 mph each hour... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMetropolis-Two-by-Chris-Burden.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Chris Burden's Metropolis II | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is currently exhibiting Chris Burden's Metropolis II , a 20-by-30 foot, multi-storied installation circulating 1,100 toy cars about 100 times over 18 traffic ways at scale speeds of 230-240 mph each hour. In Metropolis I, Burden employed approximately 80 Hot Wheels, which wore out q... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Metropolis-Two-by-Chris-Burden.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/98515aa3e36dd66bffa761dbeaf5bb293ee43d4a0613019619d8246d43cea5a0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:31 | null | null | Russia's parliamentary elections conform to well-established patterns of arbitrary exclusion of opposition candidates and intimidation and manipulation of opposition forces. Given the exclusion, cooptation, and intimidation of oppositionists in Russia, many people who might be inclined to compete for office in more ope... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FRussia-Elections-Vladimir-Putin-Democracy-Derailed-Steve-Fish.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Russia's failed democracy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Russia's parliamentary elections conform to well-established patterns of arbitrary exclusion of opposition candidates and intimidation and manipulation of opposition forces. Given the exclusion, cooptation, and intimidation of oppositionists in Russia, many people who might be inclined to compete for office in more ope... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Russia-Elections-Vladimir-Putin-Democracy-Derailed-Steve-Fish.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b1ab578eed9800e7924d63c2cb0c9f08bcef46be3e03c91ae3f356ee979df1bb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:53 | null | null | In most societies, economic literacy encompassing the contending theories was neglected over recent decades in and by the one-sided curricula and particular theories prevalent in schools, media, business, and politics. We must now correct for that neglect... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FContending-Economic-Theories-Neoclassical-Keynesian-and-Marxian-Richard-Wolff-and-Stephen-Resnick.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian Economy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Global capitalism's crisis since 2007 - its deepest since the 1930s - has had and will continue to have widespread and profound effects. It is transforming the world's economy, politics and culture. Economic theories, part of that culture, cannot escape challenge and change. Those theories are the lenses we use to see ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Contending-Economic-Theories-Neoclassical-Keynesian-and-Marxian-Richard-Wolff-and-Stephen-Resnick.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a9e8aa92e643f9f65643a51497ecb8b00a48a6aa769809eef3e29547b650640f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:51 | null | null | Pre-mid-nineteenth-century relations in East Asia were decidedly not based on a system of equal, interacting nation-states who contracted treaties regulating their political and economic intercourse. They were hierarchical with the ruling dynastic house on the mainland ('China') receiving visitors from the archipelago ... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FArticulating-the-Sinosphere-Sino-Japanese-Relations-in-Space-and-Time.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | History of East Asia: The Sinosphere, Past and Present | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In the first and longest of the three essays that comprise my recent book, Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time, I offer a history of the political and cultural relations-with a certain admixture of economic ties-of those countries we now call China and Japan. I stress the implicit las... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Articulating-the-Sinosphere-Sino-Japanese-Relations-in-Space-and-Time.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/3985af3d5923536ddf0e076412f41449bbb59edb045db01267b082269ff7ac27.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:55 | null | null | One hundred years ago Max Frisch was born in Zurich. He died twenty years ago in the same city. In between he got out and travelled widely, and in 1952 lived in the US and Mexico on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. His journeying shaped his writing, both novels and plays, providing exotic settings but also loca... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMax-Frisch.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Max Frisch: One Hundred Years On | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | One hundred years ago Max Frisch was born in Zurich. He died twenty years ago in the same city. In between he got out and travelled widely, and in 1952 lived in the US and Mexico on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. His journeying shaped his writing, both novels and plays, providing exotic settings but also loca... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Max-Frisch.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ce03988fde63e15907d7d927f4b932a9e7d8c8e2e6d246529503c23c87f2fee4.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:58 | null | null | In August 1967, soon after the Six Day War, the Arab League met in Khartoum, three nos the response to Israel's offer to trade land for peace: no negotiations, no recognition, no peace... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2Fthe-Zionist-entity-and-the-Occupation.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Zionist Entity and the Occupation | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In August 1967, soon after the Six Day War, the Arab League met in Khartoum, three nos the response to Israel's offer to trade land for peace: no negotiations, no recognition, no peace. In June, the Israeli cabinet had agreed to return the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for a peace agreement. It is possible to imag... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/the-Zionist-entity-and-the-Occupation.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/944ce77017c5c11f30ed363be7d379b0e8b45d76d6a8fb45bfaf4a6c55ae31ad.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:34 | null | null | As the Metropolitan Museum's curator of Dutch and Flemish paintings for the past thirty-one years I know the collection's 230 Dutch pictures (those dating ca. 1600-1800) as well as I would if they were hanging in my own house... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FFrans-Hals.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Walter Liedtke | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | As the Metropolitan Museum's curator of Dutch and Flemish paintings for the past thirty-one years I know the collection's 230 Dutch pictures (those dating ca. 1600-1800) as well as I would if they were hanging in my own house. It came as no surprise, then, when the Museum suggested that I make our superb paintings by F... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Frans-Hals.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/1a8fc10803aea7bd0e2718a183af50a29a9f1291153f948d48e9ced69d1dd72e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:54 | null | null | Thoughtful discourse about cultural politics is jeopardized by the intrusion of ideological abstractions. In an attempt to avoid them, I’ll begin with two personal anecdotes... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FDesire-Passion-and-the-Politics-of-Culture.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Desire, Passion, and the Politics of Culture | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Thoughtful discourse about cultural politics is jeopardized by the intrusion of ideological abstractions. In an attempt to avoid them, I’ll begin with two personal anecdotes. The first was a marijuana high I experienced as a young adult. Even while it was happening, I described it as floating inside a balloon full of l... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Desire-Passion-and-the-Politics-of-Culture.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/fa53c8a714815a6c543739060dcc91ce06630266c084892ef38f86ddf5f27b81.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:30 | null | null | GLENN Miller is probably the University of Colorado's most famous alumnus. Up on a wall in the Glenn Miller Ballroom, scene of square dances sexier than all the tangos of Argentina, hangs a huge likeness of the man... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Americans-Essay.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Americans | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | GLENN Miller is probably the University of Colorado's most famous alumnus. Up on a wall in the Glenn Miller Ballroom, scene of square dances sexier than all the tangos of Argentina, hangs a huge likeness of the man. The university is located in Boulder, a college town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains thirty-five... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Americans-Essay.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f84491de3154580f6c164619f9ee7cd2db0f68c66065e727f7608b5f7d493211.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:05 | null | null | People trying to understand the Great Recession often look back to the Great Depression. Nevertheless, because the economy of the 1930s was self-contained, its dynamics are unlike those of the contemporary economy. A better way to understand the Great Recession is to link it with the recession of 1970s. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPivotal-Decade-How-the-United-States-Traded-Factories-for-Finance-in-the-Seventies.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Linked Recessions of the 1970s and Early Twenty-First Century | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | People trying to understand the Great Recession often look back to the Great Depression. Nevertheless, because the economy of the 1930s was self-contained, its dynamics are unlike those of the contemporary economy. Americans reformed their economy, society, and politics in the 1930s with minimal concern that imports wo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Pivotal-Decade-How-the-United-States-Traded-Factories-for-Finance-in-the-Seventies.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/60d74a1623ba409a42aff27091580aa5fae1f9373e87cf29da3fa95254bb35db.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:42 | null | null | Along an alleyway amid a shanty town in the old port district of Bombay where in the nineteenth century the great steamship company P and O built its vast dockyard stands a shrine to an African holy man. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBombay-Islam.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Bombay Islam | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Along an alleyway amid a shanty town in the old port district of Bombay where in the nineteenth century the great steamship company P&O built its vast dockyard stands a shrine to an African holy man. There, a short stretch from the water's edge where wrecks of cargo ships loom above the low dwellings of the shoreline, ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Bombay-Islam.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/994b9b99f177afd2b2ea4779748d9a6b033c99e56d3e6fbd90c7d53a6622c935.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:44 | null | null | Prior to The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets, nobody has ever described how business, the practice of selling at a profit, first began... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Origins-of-Business-Money-and-Markets.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Prior to The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets, nobody has ever described how business, the practice of selling at a profit, first began. As I discovered, it originated and took much of its modern form over the course of Western antiquity, stretching from prehistoric times to the late 7th century AD. Origins focu... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Origins-of-Business-Money-and-Markets.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/c4f5127bcc8a3202677e16bfaf4062cea2a2c9594c896bbfb0a52b9de01d2233.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:03 | null | null | Short story by Lee Matthew Goldberg | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FComprehending-Kings-Short-Story-Lee-Matthew-Goldberg.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Lee Matthew Goldberg | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "KING," MY SON CALLS OUT TO ME. We are on an old Greyhound bus that rocks back and forth through America like an unsteady amusement park ride. "King, how much longer?" He asks me, not in a whine like most children, but responsibly. It seems as if just yesterday he was learning to form real words. "A while, King," I rep... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Comprehending-Kings-Short-Story-Lee-Matthew-Goldberg.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/021e8697f5f63dbff4fd4797999b72a77f3bee4584a1e25269d8a009e21d34e5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:59 | null | null | Political extremism is one of the most pernicious, destructive, and nihilistic forms of human expression. During the twentieth century, in excess of 100 million people had their lives taken from them as the result of extremist violence... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FOrigins-of-political-extremism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Origins of Political Extremism | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Political extremism is one of the most pernicious, destructive, and nihilistic forms of human expression. During the twentieth century, in excess of 100 million people had their lives taken from them as the result of extremist violence. This is a wide-ranging work that employs the theory of the ephemeral gain, together... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Origins-of-political-extremism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/903ac2447a6591f11a7bdf2a4be85bcb4d14b04b85dec35880e80db68ca04bb1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:20 | null | null | There is a central teaching in certain schools of Mahayana Buddhist metaphysics that all phenomena are shunya , or empty of inherent existence... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FToward-a-Buddhist-politics-of-freedom.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Toward a Buddhist Politics of Freedom | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "All our attitudes, moral, practical, or emotional, as well as religious, are due to the 'objects' of our consciousness, the things which we believe to exist, whether really or ideally, along with ourselves." --William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience *** There is a central teaching in certain schools of Ma... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Toward-a-Buddhist-politics-of-freedom.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f2d80a8ab7ad068bfd01bc03239c0e7edd867614e35dba988cae5cc3a03c99ff.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:13 | null | null | The emotions at the heart of contemporary American political discourse have undergone a dramatic shift. For decades, it was all about pride... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPolitical-Emotion-From-Pride-to-Envy.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Political Emotion: From Pride to Envy and Beyond | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The emotions at the heart of contemporary American political discourse have undergone a dramatic shift. For decades, it was all about pride, as marginalized and denigrated groups sought a proper and appreciated place in the political arena: Black Pride, Gay Pride, Deaf Pride, and on indefinitely, as one group after ano... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Political-Emotion-From-Pride-to-Envy.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d26528b3e02a9e088d40dee39daf12a450d25a037950474f300953b823b3a1ae.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:48 | null | null | Neo-mercantilism however is alive and well 100 years later, as we see in the press, speeches in Congress, and in the recent US presidential debates, where promises of an elusive 'energy independence' echoed once more... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAmerica-s-Kingdom.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Oil and Grand Strategy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I. I wrote America's Kingdom as an exercise in social criticism and a demonstration of what, according to one of the discipline's giants, Charles Lindblom, political science does best, namely "reporting" or "getting the facts straight." (1) Getting them straight in my case meant reverse engineering the mytho-history in... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/America-s-Kingdom.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b84582b2857a0f27180f79b7adc8e03c01d9e106c5697ef1c5c1939aaf85eaec.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:43 | null | null | With NASA's latest efforts on Mars with the Curiosity rover, humanity is now bracing itself for the hope of finding life past, present or future, on a distant plant. Much of this is drivel, suggesting a continued obsession of humankind's 'inner child' ('We discover ourselves through discovering others') but the prospec... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FConquest-in-Space-Dreaming-about-Mars.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Dreaming about Mars | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | There's a one-ton piece of American ingenuity and it's sitting on the surface of Mars right now. John Holdren, quoted in New Statesman, Aug 6, 2012 *** With NASA's latest efforts on Mars with the Curiosity rover, humanity is now bracing itself for the hope of finding life past, present or future, on a distant plant. Mu... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Conquest-in-Space-Dreaming-about-Mars.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/67498cc80ab55dcb3d8e68f58eff8d68dd1b90769a2b464516c9dbd90530430c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:55 | null | null | In February 2011, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt resigned after the armed forces sided with several thousand protesters who had gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand his removal. With the probable exception of those who still supported Mubarak, replacing him with a military government was acclaimed as a democra... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FEgypt-The-Fall-of-Mohammad-Morsi.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Fall of Mohammad Morsi, Ethics and a Shakespearean Question | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In February 2011, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt resigned after the armed forces sided with several thousand protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding his removal. With the probable exception of those who still supported Mubarak, replacing him with a military government was acclaimed as a democratic revolution. O... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Egypt-The-Fall-of-Mohammad-Morsi.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/7bf0d1c74c4a4d6b1aa4f76d077f6e4d3f0a8ca3e28ba23cfbfb90589c69ba15.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:48 | null | null | A Review on Susan Buck Morss' “The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project” | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-dialectics-of-seeing-Walter-Benjamin-and-the-Arcades-Project.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | While Walter Benjamin was carrying his heavy briefcase as he was crossing the Pyrenees to escape from Nazi occupation he said "It is the manuscript that must be saved. It is more important than I am." Unfortunately his cultural inheritance which could probably give us a full picture of the Passegen Werk (Arcades Projec... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-dialectics-of-seeing-Walter-Benjamin-and-the-Arcades-Project.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/28fd521e53783a2241cc8e0c846da16532e2f5bd92358c7f25713a1775f2e7b6.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:34 | null | null | Any creation story is a story about models, for as King Lear reminds us, “Nothing can come of nothing..." | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-real-real-thing-Wendy-Steiner.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Model in the Mirror of Art | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Any creation story is a story about models, for as King Lear reminds us, "Nothing can come of nothing." Models generate entities "made in their own image." They are the Real peeking out at us from the mirror of art. Contemporary artists seem utterly fascinated with this figure. The painter Marlene Dumas papers whole ga... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-real-real-thing-Wendy-Steiner.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/02340dea6a17e8e3d056e4f7bdcac2ad18154e2648c1f77a68277479f4edb56e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:50 | null | null | The problem with the zettabyte problem is that, even though the proportion of what is culturally valuable to the totality of the cultural information may not have changed (and how would you know?), multiplying both a millionfold has the effect of obscuring the former as effectively as if it was not there at all. It may... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Zettabyte-Problem.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Zettabyte Problem, Or The End of Cultural History As We Know It | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In 1977 humankind dispatched its first ‘message in a bottle’ to the stars. Piggybacking on NASA’s regular missions, deep-space orbiters Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were equipped with gold phonograph records intended for the eyes and ears (in a manner of speaking) of extraterrestrials. The probes eat space at a leisurely 60... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Zettabyte-Problem.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e4bcb84a9f5391f665d0fc3c66874a1dbd0f369e96a95f5304281e2c2a74a188.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:32 | null | null | The idea that reading books can change your life has not been very fashionable this last century or so. It violates the high-modernist principle of art for art's sake, smacks of Victorian moralizing and self-improvement... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FA-Jane-Austen-education.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | A Jane Austen Education | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The idea that reading books can change your life has not been very fashionable this last century or so. It violates the high-modernist principle of art for art's sake, smacks of Victorian moralizing and self-improvement. And yet I don't think that any serious reader does not, deep down at least, believe it. Why do we r... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/A-Jane-Austen-education.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/c9cc6cf771ea4a70f8d386394889a1ea0eefe7ac4ce6835be1c1f47a98fb5a67.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:44 | null | null | Charles Darwin is rightly celebrated for providing, in The Origin of Species, the first workable scientific theory to explain the stunning diversity and complexity of life on earth... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FCultural-Evolution-How-Darwinian-Theory-Can-Explain-Human-Culture-and-Synthesize-the-Social-Sciences.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Cultural Evolution | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Charles Darwin is rightly celebrated for providing, in The Origin of Species, the first workable scientific theory to explain the stunning diversity and complexity of life on earth. His theory of evolution by natural selection comprised three principles. First, individuals vary in their characteristics (the principle o... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Cultural-Evolution-How-Darwinian-Theory-Can-Explain-Human-Culture-and-Synthesize-the-Social-Sciences.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a1e8a5f582eef471a60cb8aff40abee628489482d493e556db38461cffb78097.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:10 | null | null | While we all have a deep and abiding desire to be treated well and to be recognized as worthy, our lack of awareness and understanding of the many ways we routinely violate each other's dignity is wreaking havoc on our lives and our relationships... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FDignity-the-essential-role-it-plays-in-resolving-conflict-Donna-Hicks.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Dignity and Confict | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Dignity: The Essential Role it Plays in Resolving Conflict reveals a hidden force within us so powerful that it can affect the way we feel about ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. That force is our common human yearning to be seen and treated as worthy of dignity. While we all have a deep and abidin... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Dignity-the-essential-role-it-plays-in-resolving-conflict-Donna-Hicks.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/8aa87dfd83fcb7e75d97e7af5401f71048c0fae6a86fc8299d4f2b7ad88c252c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:42 | null | null | On the origins, escalation and future of war. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Arc-of-War-Origins-Escalation-and-Transformation.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The origins and future of war | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | After many centuries in which war between the leading powers in the system has been a defining characteristic of international relations and perhaps the primary determinant of change in the international system, we have witnessed five or six decades without a single war between the great powers - the longest period of ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Arc-of-War-Origins-Escalation-and-Transformation.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/560d7a4dab753dfc441276dc0aa18dec058abc1e6219eed3f0b5ef1d259fc65d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:40 | null | null | In May 1831, at the age of 25, Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States as part of a commission of two to study the American prison system, returning to France nine months later to write up his report and start work on his famous Democracy in America... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FToqueville-America.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Toqueville's America | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In May 1831, at the age of 25, Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States as part of a commission of two to study the American prison system, returning to France nine months later to write up his report and start work on his famous Democracy in America (De la démocratie en Amérique, 1835, 1840). Not far behind ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Toqueville-America.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ade97ca24334e75f83170546ec6c19ebeef31ff7e0943b61ee4beda85c50bb59.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:26 | null | null | Short story by Kelly Stanton. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FOpportunity-Cost-short-story-by-Kelly-Stanton.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Opportunity Cost | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | My name is William Clarke. For the last 25 years I have been a high school economics and sociology teacher in an affluent suburb adjacent to a dilapidated city in the Midwest. I can not be more specific than that simply because I can't bear to cause any more trouble. I've replaced real names with pseudonyms, changed so... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Opportunity-Cost-short-story-by-Kelly-Stanton.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/7b7766ab75d83a550d38ed120210d22ec64ad53116d057a30892687bcf4f65e4.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:44 | null | null | Many scientists are religious, and consider their beliefs to be entirely rational... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FEvolution-and-Belief-Confessions-of-a-Religious-Paleontologist.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The compatibility of science and religion | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Many scientists are religious, and consider their beliefs to be entirely rational. On the other hand, a scientific worldview is sometimes claimed to be incompatible with religion, and under certain definitions of "science" and "religion", it probably is. For example, if religion requires a human-like, supernatural enti... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Evolution-and-Belief-Confessions-of-a-Religious-Paleontologist.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/196c2e8a28a10664855b6348f3939ed05e9773b67e101a55fadb71d1b5045992.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:37 | null | null | The really great philosophers have enormous influence over the centuries. To take the measure of their impact is to understand European intellectual history in its broad outlines. Kant, Descartes, Plato and Aristotle himself – who was once known simply as ‘the philosopher’ – have all left indelible marks on western cul... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FEthics-After-Aristotle.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Ethics After Aristotle | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The really great philosophers have enormous influence over the centuries. To take the measure of their impact is to understand European intellectual history in its broad outlines. Kant, Descartes, Plato and Aristotle himself – who was once known simply as ‘the philosopher’ – have all left indelible marks on western cul... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Ethics-After-Aristotle.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/bf737430eeaebdd4de5af0fbf195dc13be1ddcf4c862f173eba07805e42d0ec1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:18 | null | null | Class, today's topic is: The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who wear neckties and those who comment on those who wear neckties. Discuss... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Necktie-and-the-Human-Condition.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Necktie and the Human Condition: One Man’s Story | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Class, today's topic is: The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who wear neckties and those who comment on those who wear neckties. Discuss. (Once I thought that the world divided into (1) those who divided the world into two kinds of people and (2) those who thought it was more complicated than that. I h... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Necktie-and-the-Human-Condition.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/66e75b3a855ac8ef22522dc8d07eb3f5df403521978d999ec0fe035d29b81384.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:24:01 | null | null | Perhaps the two most salient aspects of our humanity are our ability to communicate and our ability to design... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FDesign-and-truth.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Design deformities of the World Trade Center in New York | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Perhaps the two most salient aspects of our humanity are our ability to communicate and our ability to design. In fact these two principal skills have deep bonds with each other, for we design and redesign all our modes of communication, while design itself communicates with society and with nature. The buildings we li... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Design-and-truth.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/adafc106cab234c9fcb27e5a3d0f83f84be6bbadf34e0e0e9b6c81269e75cf15.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:03 | null | null | Short story by Lee Matthew Goldberg (September, 2011) | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FOur-buick-stopped-here.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Our Buick Stopped Here | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | COLT'S FINGERS CREPT TOWARDS THE SILVER COMBINATION LOCK OF HIS DADDY'S SUITCASE. From the front seat of their car, his daddy reached back and swatted Colt's hand away with a grimace of twisted yellow teeth. No funny stuff said his daddy's eyes in the rear view mirror, but funny stuff was what Colt did best. They had s... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Our-buick-stopped-here.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/02be796a4432eb8dd71083be7201555806337c796f468ef3535039f20d35e4b2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:40 | null | null | “The plebs” is the name of an experience, that of achieving human dignity through political agency. The plebs designates neither a social category nor an identity but rather a fundamental political event: the passage from a subpolitical status to one of a full-fledged political subject... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Plebean-Experience.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Plebeian Experience | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The meaning of politics is freedom. —Hannah Arendt, The Promise of Politics *** “The plebs” is the name of an experience, that of achieving human dignity through political agency. The plebs designates neither a social category nor an identity but rather a fundamental political event: the passage from a subpolitical sta... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Plebean-Experience.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a27e832dc8e0acebc98c6a2ef760d30d292b6836cc8767c4f22a309a2a3d06fa.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:06 | null | null | Stanley A. Renshon on the politics and policies of the United States | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMaking-Sense-of-the-Republican-American-Presidential-Primary.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Making Sense of the Republican American Presidential Primary | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Foreigners watching the recent Republican primary race to select their presidential nominee may be forgiven for being perplexed. At a time when most Americans were hardly paying attention, the Republican Party was engaged in a marathon series of twenty seven televised debates, forty primary elections, and seventeen cau... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Making-Sense-of-the-Republican-American-Presidential-Primary.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/dae45b898d3d9ad6813478ffc67383f5f4c028d8823ffefd8298df81f79ee82b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:49 | null | null | On the night of January 7th, 2011, Jared Lee Loughner, twenty-two, checked into a Motel 6 in Tucson, Arizona. He then dropped off a roll of film containing pictures of himself in a red g-string, a gun to his bare ass. Loughner retrieved these photos that same night... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FJared-Loughner-and-American-Violence.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Jared Loughner and American Violence | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | On the night of January 7th, 2011, Jared Lee Loughner, twenty-two, checked into a Motel 6 in Tucson, Arizona. He then dropped off a roll of film containing pictures of himself in a red g-string, a gun to his bare ass. Loughner retrieved these photos that same night. This was the frenetic evening before he decided to in... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Jared-Loughner-and-American-Violence.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5aa9c08901805ec490c1ca87a8df2d6212933b333284d6b1d3d0f3fdea2b844c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:41 | null | null | It was Lee Leffert who convinced my parents that I should be taken seriously as an artist. He was the bachelor brother of the next-door neighbors on Tyne Boulevard in Nashville. Tall, athletic, and erudite, Lee visited his family once a year from the Midwest, where he was the founder and headmaster of an exclusive priv... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Heart-Of-Florence.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Heart of Florence | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It was Lee Leffert who convinced my parents that I should be taken seriously as an artist. He was the bachelor brother of the next-door neighbors on Tyne Boulevard in Nashville. Tall, athletic, and erudite, Lee visited his family once a year from the Midwest, where he was the founder and headmaster of an exclusive priv... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Heart-Of-Florence.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5e0602e34cd5340848b09090d4d07c5cbdde5bf253cd12f20d1bc14d483be276.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:01:44 | null | null | The levels of sophistication of science to date might not have managed to fully grasp ‘what man is like’ in neurobiological terms, yet Chekov’s instinct was sound: acquiring an accurate portrayal of human nature is a prerequisite for creating conditions that respect human dignity and morality... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FWho-are-we-Neurochemical-man-and-emotional-amoral-egoism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Neurochemical man and emotional amoral egoism | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The levels of sophistication of science to date might not have managed to fully grasp ‘what man is like’ in neurobiological terms, yet Chekov’s instinct was sound: acquiring an accurate portrayal of human nature is a prerequisite for creating conditions that respect human dignity and morality. Attempts at moral educati... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Who-are-we-Neurochemical-man-and-emotional-amoral-egoism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e73e93bb898ac4dce0a18526874d5f82adcc076f54c79de8d0c7a64f04aa3ff1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:42 | null | null | Mid-July in Oslo is generally a very quiet time, as much of the city's population leaves in order to embark on the summer holiday season... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FNorway-terror-attaks.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Norway’s Terror: The reminiscence of an Osloite | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Mid-July in Oslo is generally a very quiet time, as much of the city's population leaves in order to embark on the summer holiday season. On the 22nd of July 2011, this peaceful atmosphere in our capital city, and our country, was broken by two sequential terror attacks which together claimed the lives of 77 innocent p... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Norway-terror-attaks.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/dec71dbcb3de05a93f999c65aa7abb046614e442c062b364d1d0878eaec96fc7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:19 | null | null | Matt Domino's Mad Men Reviews - Episode 4 | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMad-Men-Dark-Shadows.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Mad Men: Dark Shadows | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The latest episode of Mad Men, "Dark Shadows", was an episode entirely about competing and competition. I should know-I'm one of the most competitive people around. Last night, after an exhaustive weekend of traveling while under the weather, I considered sticking it out and sitting in front of my computer until past m... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Mad-Men-Dark-Shadows.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a4da4dfb4d6c0d2e62172c82cc5bf3098a55139f616b5081359e92702e20758c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:45 | null | null | The summer of 2011 marked 20 years since Dance Smartly, a magnificent Canadian 3-yr-old filly, cake-walked down the home stretch of Woodbine racetrack in Toronto... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FHow-monopoly-took-over-a-sport.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | E.P. Taylor and How Monopoly Took Over a Sport | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The summer of 2011 marked 20 years since Dance Smartly, a magnificent Canadian 3-yr-old filly, cake-walked down the home stretch of Woodbine racetrack in Toronto to an easy win in the Queen's Plate - Canada's premier race for Canadian foaled horses, first race in their Triple Crown, and the oldest stakes race in North ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/How-monopoly-took-over-a-sport.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e7fd7e7d1d94958153b24ea7373badbf45e65457ce0240d6df3e0a0de69de551.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:18 | null | null | Stanley A. Renshon’s psychological portrait of the President Barack Obama and the sources of his policy of redemption. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBarack-Obama-personality-and-the-politics-of-redemption.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | A psychological analysis by Stanley A. Renshon | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | This analysis of Barack Obama is the third in a series of psychologically framed analyses of a sitting president, the others having focused on Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Each of those books began with both a psychological and political question. For President Obama, the political question was whether he could suc... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Barack-Obama-personality-and-the-politics-of-redemption.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/915375ff731b14b18e09ca77c485db524dc09b5b00dbffbe889c332703974f5a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:22 | null | null | Cranach, after God, became Luther's `senior adviser' in the unfolding of the Protestant Reformation... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Serpent-and-the-Lamb-Cranach-Luther-Reformation.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Cranach, Luther, and the Protestant Reformation | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Before Martin Luther became Germany's most famous reformer, Lucas Cranach (1472-1553), a self-made painter from a backwater Franconian town [Kronach, population: 2500] had served sixteen years (1504 -1520) as court painter to the Saxon dynasty seated in Wittenberg (population also: 2500), the home of the fabled ruler, ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Serpent-and-the-Lamb-Cranach-Luther-Reformation.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/1cd5031e30f2d0d8c6525c949598854c5de73a052d396703fef441088b4d8bbe.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:04 | null | null | Many thinkers of recent decades have told us that science shows that humans are merely complicated machines, and that our actions are almost totally predetermined by our brain states, themselves predetermined by our genes and environment... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMind-Brain-and-Free-Will.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Mind, Brain, and Free Will | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Many thinkers of recent decades have told us that science shows that humans are merely complicated machines, and that our actions are almost totally predetermined by our brain states, themselves predetermined by our genes and environment. It would follow that we are not really culpable for our bad actions or praisewort... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Mind-Brain-and-Free-Will.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/bece78d9793bcf3a36bb49c7efc8c078c283c364b7d726c16dfaa502b8327e41.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:42 | null | null | David Levy speaks with Sakhr Al-Makhadhi, a journalist based in London who covers the Arab world for the BBC, Al Jazeera and The Guardian among others. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FIn-Aleppo.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | In Aleppo | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | David Levy: I first encountered the word Aleppo years ago in William Shakespeare's Othello (1603) and Macbeth (1610). I wasn't then sure if it was a real place or a locale the Bard had invented. Sakhr Al-Makhadhi: Aleppo is one of the world's oldest cities, the biggest city in Syria. It's in the north of the country, v... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/In-Aleppo.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d56066c320ea8e5964033de628462212f36241f5b0b51b4a24eb97664ab39bcb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:35 | null | null | An optimistic theory of natural mind. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Brain-and-the-Meaning-of-Life.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Brain and the Meaning of Life | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Why don't you kill yourself? Albert Camus began his book The Myth of Sisyphus with the startling assertion: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide." A French novelist and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, Camus said that judging whether life is or is not wort... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Brain-and-the-Meaning-of-Life.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d1e1afdde309de844a1acfb7eaffabaa157f26da27645e587bbd9bdcb51ddc00.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:23 | null | null | It is one thing to strive to make a profit out of your skills and talents, something else entirely to indulge in profiteering or to assume that absolutely every area of your life must yield a financial profit... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAddicted-to-Profit-Reclaiming-Our-Lives-from-the-Free-Market.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Addicted to Profit | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It is one thing to strive to make a profit out of your skills and talents, something else entirely to indulge in profiteering or to assume that absolutely every area of your life must yield a financial profit. Unfortunately, profiteering is now rife in the world of business, particularly in banking and the finance indu... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Addicted-to-Profit-Reclaiming-Our-Lives-from-the-Free-Market.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/505de1beb6a9f1700dcdbc56f7e7a1ecaa147e324ef3bd48b1a752dc81a55d53.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:20 | null | null | To many people hearing the phrase Middle East politics, and in particular Iraqi politics, conjures up images of sectarian strife, tribal and clan loyalties, and persecution of ethnic minorities... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FRed-Star-Over-Iraq-by-Johan-Franzen.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Iraqi Communism Before Saddam | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | To many people hearing the phrase Middle East politics, and in particular Iraqi politics, conjures up images of sectarian strife, tribal and clan loyalties, and persecution of ethnic minorities. Certainly, the media coverage of Iraq since the Anglo-American invasion in 2003 has beamed these images into the living rooms... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Red-Star-Over-Iraq-by-Johan-Franzen.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/61698cb42135786abf815b778f6cb32961ddaea4542fc00b653a66414c110e4d.json |
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