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[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:20 | null | null | Review of Peter Swirski's 'American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History' | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAmerican-Utopia-and-Social-Engineering-in-Literature-Social-Thought-and-Political-History.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | American Utopia and Social Engineering | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Oscar Wilde famously remarked that "A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing." The map, however, is not the territory. Maps picture the world, and Wilde was right to assert that representations of utopia are of g... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/American-Utopia-and-Social-Engineering-in-Literature-Social-Thought-and-Political-History.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/3dbe60821ec4bea8496f03d657ad82f8da5996090dda7dd379740e65b650d773.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:10 | null | null | The immense complexity of some industrial organizations and their tight internal connections occasionally allowed even some small local failures, inevitable in complex systems, to cascade through the system and bring it down. If the system also had catastrophic potential, perhaps it should not exist... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FNormal-Accidents-Living-with-High-Risk-Technologies.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Normal Accidents | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Complex Organizations was a serial of sorts. The first edition (1972) argued for the importance of bureaucracy in organizations - in contrast, most notably, to the human relations school that was then dominant - and for the importance of organizations in shaping society. True to the subtitle, A Critical Essay, its chap... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Normal-Accidents-Living-with-High-Risk-Technologies.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f7fd43c3c642835b9135591b975e5dcc28bdb5e0bf2a622f3b4bf8004afa63e7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:14 | null | null | Today, Oz is known by practically everyone in the world, but only a rare person is familiar with the artists who wrote its great songs... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Wizard-of-Oz-Remains-a-Symbol-Of-Social-Progress.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Wizard of Oz Remains a Symbol Of Social Progress | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "Fantasy must appeal to the adult in all children, and the children in all adults." These are the words of Noel Langley the final screenwriter for the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film spectacle, The Wizard of Oz, that remains a cherished trademark of popular American culture, as well as throughout the world, despite having bee... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Wizard-of-Oz-Remains-a-Symbol-Of-Social-Progress.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/234180a7aa20e76e48680865976b9cdb03ec90b95b5c420a3179a236a6fc31c6.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:08 | null | null | Criticisms arguing that religion is irrational have been voiced in recent years by writers such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris. How is it possible, they ask, for so many people who otherwise claim to be reasonable to be religious? How indeed? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-God-Problem.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Faith and Reason or Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The trouble with religion, critics argue, is that it is not rational. Believing that God is powerful enough to raise somebody from the dead is not rational. Thinking that you can end a drought by praying for rain or that asking God nicely to divert a tornado from your neighborhood is similarly irrational. Criticisms ar... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-God-Problem.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ca1490434b344909b1618a3e967411f96b1c2821ea15e8fd2c352e96dae85d9e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:01 | null | null | A critique of the theory of choice and free market. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Myth-of-Choice-Personal-Responsibility-in-a-World-of-Limits-by-Kent-Greenfield.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Choice and the Free Market | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | We may be quite aware of various ways we are constrained in life-biology, social norms, authority-but one area we are told embodies robust, unlimited choice is the free market. The free market allows us to choose among approximately 45,000 items in the typical grocery store, millions of songs on iTunes, and more than t... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Myth-of-Choice-Personal-Responsibility-in-a-World-of-Limits-by-Kent-Greenfield.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/40984997a3f61677696d7a41fd71040a1c39fa5550ca4b34b1d216f6cfb1b3cd.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:27 | null | null | To tell the truth. To remain within nodding distance of the facts, which run away from you effortlessly... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FGuelph-in-the-afternoon.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Guelph in the Afternoon | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | To tell the truth. To remain within nodding distance of the facts, which run away from you effortlessly. To drive after them living people, who are much more unwilling and in the end disappointing than imaginary ones, who can show up anywhere, adopt any pose, pull off speeches of shattering brevity, and do not lie to y... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Guelph-in-the-afternoon.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/df4dc8bf3a24db25f1ad52422959a17a09cc4d5274bbf4736b8553061385ad2f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:20 | null | null | Poetry by Steven Mayoff | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSteven-Mayoff-Poetry.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Steven Mayoff | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I Searching for my mother's grave among headstones like crowded teeth. Names cut into granite, marble, limestone. Sklar, Jacoby, Berkovitch, Posner: names of dead strangers I will carry from Montreal back to PEI. Crowded teeth cut names into granite, marble, limestone, as if by the elements of precious days. I will car... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Steven-Mayoff-Poetry.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/779ad9245e0e4de152ec67ea605ebe585e43e24b6f4d8405f4d3d20d409de55a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:28 | null | null | 'There's a word that the winemakers here use, it's 'invaiatura'-the moment when the grapes change color, they stop growing and begin ripening...' | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FInvaiatura-Short-story-by-Joel-Burcat.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Short story by Joel Burcat | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Jules was like a father to me, and despite how much I detested him, you can imagine my shock and grief when I received word that he was dead. I had been sweating over a stock sale agreement-he taught me how to draft them-when the phone rang. I let it ring twice before I even looked at the caller ID, which read "unknown... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Invaiatura-Short-story-by-Joel-Burcat.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/2244304ad70e81da5661eb978d4b358b74475ce724cde039053615fd724fdfa2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:10 | null | null | More than twenty years later, the legacy of Tiananmen Square remains, an unsolved problem. The prominent names in the struggle, such as Wang Juntao, the mentor of the student leaders, or Wang Dan, leader of the Tiananmen student movement, live for the most part in exile in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, or Taiwa... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Legacy-of-Tiananmen-Square.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Legacy of Tiananmen Square | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | More than twenty years later, the legacy of Tiananmen Square remains, an unsolved problem. The prominent names in the struggle, such as Wang Juntao, the mentor of the student leaders, or Wang Dan, leader of the Tiananmen student movement, live for the most part in exile in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, or Taiwa... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Legacy-of-Tiananmen-Square.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/7ed40c27c5e7890369f424ab2907e06bd5c773d8acddff70a4e35d0e13aaf102.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:21 | null | null | When we try to explain acts of human cruelty, there is no scientific value in the term 'evil' but there is scientific value in using the term 'empathy erosion'... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-science-of-evil-by-Simon-Baron-Cohen.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | When we try to explain acts of human cruelty, there is no scientific value in the term 'evil' but there is scientific value in using the term 'empathy erosion'. The key claim in my book is that when people commit acts of cruelty, a specific circuit in the brain ("the empathy circuit") goes down. This might be temporari... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-science-of-evil-by-Simon-Baron-Cohen.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/352051544961e9598ae693e769072d0553c0299e579426c920781854fb86bf97.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:01 | null | null | Ever since the European Enlightenments, the English and Scottish 'sociology of virtue' has been in conflict with the French 'ideology of reason.' For the British philosophers the essence of human nature was a moral sense of right and wrong and a natural empathy for others. For the French philosophes, however, reason wa... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPost-Rational-Management.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Post-Rational Management | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | “The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.” Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) (Physics and Politics)
Ever since the European Enlightenments, the English and Scottish “sociology of virtue” has been in conflict with the French “ideology of rea... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Post-Rational-Management.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e4f34edc6ad22c13cc8c01ce7ce9c28336afae8dbb3b8d53c0b04f0ee9469114.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:00 | null | null | It is no doubt easier to imagine a world without Marx than a world without revolution, capitalism, communism and socialism. But in the world we actually inhabit, these still have to be seen through Marx... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FKarl-Marx.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Paul Thomas | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Engels's well-known keynote 'Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx' (1883) was bent upon seeing to it that the name and work of his friend and guiding spirit would 'endure through the ages.' Engels's heartfelt, distraught words - 'we are what we are because of him; without him we should still be sunk in a slough of conf... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Karl-Marx.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d62de9243849845e1b63e20206297ca56d753936ec814c5d06410d2d5b212293.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:29 | null | null | The peculiar alliance between the United States and Saudi Arabia, forged during World War II and lubricated by oil, is being reshaped by dramatic shifts in global petroleum markets.Saudi Arabia's rulers and strategic planners in Washington still find each other useful, especially in confronting Iran, but they no longer... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-U-S-Saudi-Alliance-and-the-Changing-Dynamics-of-Oil.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The U.S.-Saudi Alliance and the Changing Dynamics of Oil | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The peculiar alliance between the United States and Saudi Arabia, forged during World War II and lubricated by oil, is being reshaped by dramatic shifts in global petroleum markets. The United States now gets very little of its oil from the Middle East and is less dependent on imports as its own production increases. S... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-U-S-Saudi-Alliance-and-the-Changing-Dynamics-of-Oil.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/fbd7306977237cc64ff16cd8cd4996c380cce7335ca9cb91df2703c4aafb4806.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:44 | null | null | My mother had her favorites: dark chocolate, lightly salted cashews, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Diamond, silver jewelry, Shalimar perfume, black coffee, red wine, the Chicago Cubs... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-first-heartbreak.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The First Heartbreak | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | My mother had her favorites: dark chocolate, lightly salted cashews, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Diamond, silver jewelry, Shalimar perfume, black coffee, red wine, the Chicago Cubs. It was easy to buy presents for her because she was so firm and fixed about what she liked. She also favored my older sister, Elise, over anyo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-first-heartbreak.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/220f58e4887f7c481c76acdcd7545b6ba5f7b13a8a9a9623a52c0cf4fbcf1122.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:40 | null | null | After flying in a two-engine job from Pago Pago (that cheap t-shirt of a town) to Apia , capitol of Western Samoa , a local merchant showed me a series of postcards... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2F14-degrees-southern-latitude.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Western Samoa: 14 Degrees Southern Latitude | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "The Pacific Islands...a stir-about of epochs and ages." -- Robert Louis Stevenson *** After flying in a two-engine job from Pago Pago (that cheap t-shirt of a town) to Apia, capitol of Western Samoa, a local merchant showed me a series of postcards. Actually reproductions of sent postcards, circa 1907, their photograp... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/14-degrees-southern-latitude.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/0acb750342967f67d816769230230595976d5de524c92a70a04524377594ba70.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:15 | null | null | Why do we love fiction? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FOn-the-origin-of-stories.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | On the Origin of Stories | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Who doesn't love stories? On page, stage or screen, fiction can be as engrossing as sex. But why do we need to explain why we love fiction, any more than why we enjoy sex? Just because the pleasures of fiction, and of art in general, seem so natural does not mean there is nothing to explain. Far from it. We also love i... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/On-the-origin-of-stories.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/85d73c0199d6af208317002a9f646063987e3b3b4eb9e1d79633106b725209d7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:47 | null | null | Tunisians made history on October 23rd this year by taking part in the regions first free and fair elections that were held in the backdrop of the Arab Spring... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FTunisia-success-heralds-a-testing-time-for-Egypt.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Tunisia’s Success Heralds a Testing Time for Egypt | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Tunisians made history on October 23rd this year by taking part in the regions first free and fair elections that were held in the backdrop of the Arab Spring. There are many lessons that can be learnt from the run-up to this election, including the practices of contesting Islamic parties and the way the election was c... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Tunisia-success-heralds-a-testing-time-for-Egypt.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ea730135dce8aeba317aa190fe8879d2f307784d9855163d6ab633e09d09773c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:32 | null | null | I have an idea for a short story, but doubt my ability to pull it off. I haven’t written any stories since high school, where I received enough encouragement to convince me to apply to a fiction workshop in college and to a poetry workshop as a back-up... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FReflections-on-Literary-Craft.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Reflections on Literary Craft | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I have an idea for a short story, but doubt my ability to pull it off. I haven’t written any stories since high school, where I received enough encouragement to convince me to apply to a fiction workshop in college and to a poetry workshop as a back-up. I was rejected by the fiction class and accepted into the poetry c... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Reflections-on-Literary-Craft.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/2295a6d25f12e75f9ef1e92983f3c7d195983475854ba67d392821942d4a32d8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:42 | null | null | There was always a feeling of surprise, even after six months, at the diminutive size of the office... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-couple.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Couple | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | There was always a feeling of surprise, even after six months, at the diminutive size of the office. During the week, when she closed her eyes and thought about their sessions, the room transformed into something more cavernous, the walls slowly retreating from each other. The wife walked into the therapist's office wi... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-couple.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b05e393bd2d4eb59a979748343e0af8f457d61222a13235817ee79f3fafa79b4.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:32 | null | null | What does it take to get into the New Yorker and what are the odds? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-New-Yorker-Short-Story-of-Short-Story.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Getting a story published in The New Yorker? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Castle dwellers refer to their humble publication housed in the upper reaches of Si Newhouse's Condé Nast Tower in Times Square as "The magazine." The 48-story high-rise which inspired the architecture of Battlestar Galactica, boasts a state-of-the-art air filtration system and a labyrinth of high-tech manuscript-fed r... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-New-Yorker-Short-Story-of-Short-Story.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e2fdaa365ae5e52bbebee21709b931f632438501bed8d07e960420e5d7c1fe7d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:53 | null | null | Defining conservatism is surprisingly hard... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FConservatism-Kieron-OHara.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | What is Conservatism | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Defining conservatism is surprisingly hard; well, perhaps not that surprising, since self-described conservatives have adopted many apparently incompatible positions in recent years. Hayek advocated small government, but Reagan and Bush increased its size. The religious right and extreme libertarians claim the term. Th... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Conservatism-Kieron-OHara.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5e9ce94afaaa5d824bd11f4b947fc550310505f07d89917d534fc50272dbd711.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:43 | null | null | As a philosopher I ask different questions about portraits than art historians... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPortraits-and-persons-by-Cynthia-Freeland.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Portraits and Persons | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | As a philosopher I ask different questions about portraits than art historians. I am interested in how portraiture helps illuminate questions about persons and selves. The first fundamental question my book tackles is how to define the term "portrait". I ask what things can have or be featured in portraits. It seems at... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Portraits-and-persons-by-Cynthia-Freeland.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/9d8341027c3d20334b7cd0ee311370b6a164494b53319b191b9f863234ca5bf6.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:49 | null | null | Jokes, jazz, psychoanalysis, sex, magic, Manhattan: scholars, critics, and commentators have scrutinized the obsessions and influences of Woody Allen's films, but his relationship to wealth remains largely unplumbed... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FWoody-Allen-and-Wealth.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Woody Allen and Wealth | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Jokes, jazz, psychoanalysis, sex, magic, Manhattan: scholars, critics, and commentators have scrutinized the obsessions and influences of Woody Allen's films, but his relationship to wealth remains largely unplumbed. Even the recently published A Companion to Woody Allen (Wiley Blackwell, 2013) overlooks this topic. Ye... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Woody-Allen-and-Wealth.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/9af4039657d610662c52a6a6f1a57a92ccb49fb24c6bb843f948bf05f0cfc8ca.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:47 | null | null | David Levy on Jeff Prosserman's film 'Chasing Madoff' | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Rise-and-Decline-of-a-Ponzi.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | "On Chasing Madoff" | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Jeff Prosserman's film Chasing Madoff (2011) concludes with a scene of dozens more like hundreds of fraud investigators, members of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, gathered in the ballroom of a Las Vegas hotel. They are there to honour Harry Marcopoulos for his tireless and frustrating decade-long effort ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Rise-and-Decline-of-a-Ponzi.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/83044d755cc9f1671101312073313bb19a04c537f3aee3f87e7f15a6ab5baabd.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:30 | null | null | The Montreal Review welcomes unsolicited submissions of book reviews and essays, literary non-fiction and short stories. We also publish academic papers, philosophical sketches, scholarly texts, travel notes, art reviews, and opinion on contemporary issues. Painters, photographers, and art galleries can suggest their w... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2Fsubmissions.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Montreal Review | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | ABOUT US
The Montreal Review is an international online magazine published three times a year (January, May, September); it offers long-form critical essays, book reviews, commentaries and interviews, photo essays, short stories, and poetry. The Montreal Review is illustrated with contemporary and classic art from Cana... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/submissions.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/db81db30348fba118a3dd34768ff27bca6f98b4822c35e43f54a8d14fd8512fb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:08 | null | null | Peace, jobs, and prosperity in the 21st century may hinge partly on positive relations between the United States and China. And that raises a critical question: Will these countries get into a new cold war of dangerous tensions, harking back to U.S.-Soviet relations in the 20th century? And how can their cooperation be... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FA-New-Cold-War.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | A New Cold War? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Peace, jobs, and prosperity in the 21st century may hinge partly on positive relations between the United States and China. And that raises a critical question: Will these countries get into a new cold war of dangerous tensions, harking back to U.S.-Soviet relations in the 20th century? And how can their cooperation be... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/A-New-Cold-War.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/7b17239a263e1c0c62a8b50573bd5f96620349d91fc0ef33487b334c9256e24b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:45 | null | null | Books: From Mao to Market, China reconfigured | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FFrom-Mao-to-Market.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | From Mao to Market | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It was late autumn 1968. Trudging through the snow along Rue de la Montagne in Montreal as the day drew to a close, I met up with an old family friend. "What are you doing now?" he said. I replied that I had just started a Masters at McGill in Chinese history, that I was hoping to be a 'China watcher'. "Are you crazy?"... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/From-Mao-to-Market.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/dc096935cb249316e09086016eb6de58cfa21e2767e38a9554c93139da489ed3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:43 | null | null | It's been fifteen years now that I've been changing the dining room chandelier light bulbs. Fifteen years of paying the bills and sitting in the driver's seat of the large blue Buick and cooking for one. Fifteen years since making the bed meant smoothing the covers and plumping the pillow on my side only... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FLucky-Lady-Short-story-by-Stefanie-Levine-Cohen.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Short story by Stefanie Levine Cohen | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It's been fifteen years now that I've been changing the dining room chandelier light bulbs. Fifteen years of paying the bills and sitting in the driver's seat of the large blue Buick and cooking for one. Fifteen years since making the bed meant smoothing the covers and plumping the pillow on my side only. I know when E... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Lucky-Lady-Short-story-by-Stefanie-Levine-Cohen.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/214c9c77e1324c6b532e9762a882d7cea49fda471cb6ea444733ec6ebf3ac674.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:25 | null | null | Yes you do. There's nothing left to believe in anymore. All is fiction. Somehow, we have to invent our own reality... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBoredom.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Boredom: a Year’s History | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "Yes. You do. There's nothing left to believe in anymore. All is fiction. Somehow, we have to invent our own reality. We have to make the unreal real. It's interesting to note that a sizeable minority of extremists are recent converts. They have nothing else to do. We are empty. You know that..." "Yes, I do... Everythi... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Boredom.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6652a4bfd9112f7d9b2ceb2be88f22f4b823c7551483d7a6a169bcdf9b584b5e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:27 | null | null | Isaiah Berlin believed that ideas matter, not just as products of the intellect but as producers of systems, guides to overnance, shapers of policy, inspirations of culture and engines of history... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FIsaiah-Berlin-The-Soviet-Mind-Russian-Culture-under-Communism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Isaiah Berlin on Soviet Culture | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | FOREWORD by Strobe Talbott Isaiah Berlin believed that ideas matter, not just as products of the intellect but as producers of systems, guides to governance, shapers of policy, inspirations of culture and engines of history. That makes him a figure of iconic importance for the Brookings Institution and others like it i... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Isaiah-Berlin-The-Soviet-Mind-Russian-Culture-under-Communism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/dde009d0a8ec15f19a78e2dd57208113eca65097b02a26148b952a563c2b180d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:38 | null | null | Recently, I stumbled across an ad for an interfaith event advertised in a local church bulletin. The notice began with these words: 'Although religion has tended to cause wars and strife throughout the millennia, religion can now become the solution if we all declare that no matter which religion we follow, we recogniz... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2Fthe-myth-of-religious-violence.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Myth of Religious Violence | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Recently, I stumbled across an ad for an interfaith event advertised in a local church bulletin. The notice began with these words: “Although religion has tended to cause wars and strife throughout the millennia, religion can now become the solution if we all declare that no matter which religion we follow, we recogniz... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/the-myth-of-religious-violence.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/2dac1e33b5bbd22d1d90ad5c5a1bcd7c62b12b3c4e6e027d1551b38613d2fa4c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:24 | null | null | If human societies are to be modified in directions more people find fulfilling, this can only occur if the nature of human hierarchies is acknowledged and understood. This search is a worthy endeavor to which the social sciences ought apply themselves without committing to a preferred moral outcome... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FHuman-Hierarchies-A-General-Theory.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Are Hierarchies Inevitable? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | We human beings are hierarchical animals. Always and everywhere, we have ranked ourselves in comparison with others of our species. While many contemporary social scientists seem to believe that equality is our default status, all societies, ranging from hunter-gatherer communities to modern techno-commercial civilizat... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Human-Hierarchies-A-General-Theory.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b48411b9660ca32e3d08e9f8b772eea7ff55925ab669bfd3815c9c175e1223b1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:45 | null | null | Most of us recognize this: that it's not in our long-term best interest to act in our short-term self-interest. But not everyone does. That's why we need mechanisms to induce trust. That's why we need security. And that's what Liars and Outliers is about... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FLiars-and-Outliers-Bruce-Schneier.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Trust and Society | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | This morning, I flew from Boston to New York. Before that, I woke up in a hotel, trusting everyone on the staff who has a master key. I took a Boston taxi to the airport, trusting not just the taxi driver, but everyone else on the road. At Boston's Logan Airport, I had to trust everyone who worked for the airline, ever... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Liars-and-Outliers-Bruce-Schneier.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/abf10ac7404651c84256252b69eec4badbc3db0aa2dcf8db4c0ddc34c098cd38.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:05 | null | null | The Giants had just won the Super Bowl and the spring semester was underway. The forecast had called for snow... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBaby-Shower.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Baby Shower | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Giants had just won the Super Bowl and the spring semester was underway. The forecast had called for snow, but the morning was unseasonably mild, as the rest of the winter had been, and it didn't feel like snowthere was even a faint, damp smell of spring in the air. Jeff walked down the steps of Penn Station holdi... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Baby-Shower.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/9269afda81481d0716e004b4bbc25a4f6dc6730d75a1187ae606156c7ec39aa2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:33 | null | null | The writing life of the Canadian author Steven Mayoff. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-writing-life-Mayoff.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The writing life | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Like any good Jewish Montreal boy, one of my most important literary influences is Mordecai Richler. Although I began writing poetry and lyrics in high school, it took many years before I could ever imagine myself as a writer. During those formative years I remember studying the dust jacket of one of his novels (it may... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-writing-life-Mayoff.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/fbd92680665944873e7d35c019c36ca422e86117d1c34124736d90197b878880.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:12 | null | null | The working title of my first book was “What is Engineering?” I had begun asking that question of myself in earnest the late 1970s. At the time, I had earned three degrees in engineering; I had worked as an engineer; I was registered as a professional engineer; and I had taught engineering. Yet when a layperson neighbo... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FTo-Engeneer-is-Human-To-Forgive-Design.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | To Engineer Is Human, To Forgive Design | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The working title of my first book was “What is Engineering?” I had begun asking that question of myself in earnest the late 1970s. At the time, I had earned three degrees in engineering; I had worked as an engineer; I was registered as a professional engineer; and I had taught engineering. Yet when a layperson neighbo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/To-Engeneer-is-Human-To-Forgive-Design.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/0d99ac98dad6ea4e042b9176f09b4662d0ea43abf4f8b339fb880bf8227e5f5a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:32 | null | null | After the end of Cold War in the early 1990s, the new millennium sees a return of autocracy and decline of democracy worldwide. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FDemocracy-in-Retreat.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Decline of Democracy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Over the past two years, the world's attention has been captured by previously unimaginable changes throughout parts of the Arab world, Africa, and Asia, political openings in some of the most repressive societies on earth. In Myanmar, where only five years ago a thuggish junta ordered the shooting of red-robed monks i... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Democracy-in-Retreat.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/2afa7b3a1beac743852fc1d405f680c8074f25b6084fa3b883b686a2e8f28713.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:52 | null | null | Richard Wolin on his book The Wind from the East | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FCultural-Revolution-the-Legacy-of-the-1960s-and-Intellectuals.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It is a remarkable fact that some forty years later, the year 1968 remains an obligatory point of reference for contemporary politics. In many respects 1968 was a annum mirabilis with global political repercussions. The specter of revolution materialized in Peking, Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Berlin, Warsaw, and Pr... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Cultural-Revolution-the-Legacy-of-the-1960s-and-Intellectuals.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/1058186c7e1e4eea20f5178399b1ecfac1dfd2ca8f5045250cf35c5efb16a713.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:09 | null | null | It is reasonably assumed that all philosophers in Plato's 'Republic' are the same, and yet, arguably, they are not... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPhilosophers-in-the-Republic-Plato-Two-Paradigms-Roslyn-Weiss.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Plato's Republic: Philosophers by Nature, by Design, and Socratic | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Philosophers by nature It is reasonably assumed that all philosophers in Plato's Republic are the same, and yet, arguably, they are not. The philosophers whom I call the "philosopher by nature," are those Socrates limns in Book 5 and for the first part of Book 6 (through 502c) [henceforth, "the philosophers of Book 6"]... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Philosophers-in-the-Republic-Plato-Two-Paradigms-Roslyn-Weiss.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ceccf22d9ef69771944034797ad3c40f08d9e9c8f75e7aa6f9ab01e548b54529.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:21 | null | null | "Truth in reviewing: Steve Cohen was my teacher in graduate school at Princeton and has remained a friend ever since. I don't think, however, that this is the reason I mostly agree with his version of events. I may disagree with this or that interpretation of particular events, but overall this is one of the first book... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSoviet-Fates-and-Lost-Alternatives-by-Stephen-Cohen.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Lars T. Lih on "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives" | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I don't want to be the one to tell him, but I don't think Stephen Cohen chose the best possible title for his new collection of essays. Soviet Fates and Lost A lternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War: this title seems gerrymandered to fit the particular essays Cohen wanted to publish, which range from a discuss... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Soviet-Fates-and-Lost-Alternatives-by-Stephen-Cohen.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/258e24b074434625c7aa10f424fafcd44b4002376d1bf485aaf4179455540f40.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:19 | null | null | Short story by B. Newmark | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Last-Lion.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Last Lion | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Rebbe Mendel Gross had fallen asleep at his desk again. He dozed slumped over some tenth grade exams. In his dream he was young once more, standing on a familiar street of his childhood. All he felt was goodness, a soft drowsy blanket wrapped around him, the world warm and embracing, familiar faces floating by. The... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Last-Lion.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/0136f1c4b106b6493cd81ce3083aae69f9c746f9ad6000d4fdcf3366c695bf3c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:40 | null | null | The air was the hot and heavy sort common just before the monsoon. It had a peculiar mixture of industrial strength antiseptic combined with the usual village smells of blossoming flowers and rotting waste... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FHuman-Desperation-and-the-Limits-of-Modern-Medicine.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Human Desperation and the Limits of Modern Medicine | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The air was the hot and heavy sort common just before the monsoon. It had a peculiar mixture of industrial strength antiseptic combined with the usual village smells of blossoming flowers and rotting waste. A man lay on a bare metal stretcher in one of the open air rooms just inside the village's hospital entrance. He ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Human-Desperation-and-the-Limits-of-Modern-Medicine.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/535b4e403e2030b9fcca96f07984636284ad4ab91abf56fd8c88440b222c11ec.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:48 | null | null | Although I recognized the concept of intelligence from an early age, it wasn't until high school that I realized that being smart meant more than getting good grades, and that different people could be smart in different ways... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2Fon-intelligence.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | On Intelligence | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Although I recognized the concept of intelligence from an early age, it wasn't until high school that I realized that being smart meant more than getting good grades, and that different people could be smart in different ways. Psychologists such as Daniel Goleman and Howard Gardner have offered plausible theories on th... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/on-intelligence.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/08055117b6ab6eb83db98bdc22e6ccf653b4022df3e0636e1e6e2715bfc735e4.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:14 | null | null | Matt Domino's Mad Men Reviews - Episode 4 | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMad-Men-Signal-30.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Mad Men: Signal 30 | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "Signal 30" was perhaps the most thematically tight Mad Men episode to date. It was an example of a television show operating at the highest level possible. It's thematic unity wasn't magnified because it came right after "Mystery Date," which was one of the more difficult and scattered episodes of the series, but beca... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Mad-Men-Signal-30.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d781c4ce9e809feeb1003b70eec4b2aa0e179c88219a825ad88a2cb4bf16615d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:10 | null | null | For the last quarter of a century we have been witnessing an understandable, although unsavoury, spectacle that can be called 'poisoning the wells.' Wells are poisoned in war so that no one should drink from them, and the victorious turbo-capitalism fears that Marxism might nonetheless raise one of its nine hydra heads... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPhases-of-Marxism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Evolution and History of Marxism | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | For the last quarter of a century we have been witnessing an understandable, although unsavoury, spectacle that can be called "poisoning the wells." Wells are poisoned in war so that no one should drink from them, and the victorious turbo-capitalism fears that Marxism might nonetheless raise one of its nine hydra heads... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Phases-of-Marxism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/1123cb69604ae2a3ad83afd38a1b17e4e33797415335efb5d5ca6bd1ef0a776e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:38 | null | null | Just off the main drag in Karaganda, a coal mining and industrial city in northern Kazakhstan, the EcoMuseum is housed on the first floor of a local government administration building. You have to know where you're going because there's no sign on the street, and only a small one on the door... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBaikonur-Cosmodrome.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Baikonur Cosmodrome: Space Junk | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Just off the main drag in Karaganda, a coal mining and industrial city in northern Kazakhstan, the EcoMuseum is housed on the first floor of a local government administration building. You have to know where you're going because there's no sign on the street, and only a small one on the door. The museum features an ecl... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Baikonur-Cosmodrome.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/e1c7dbbf242b9cf799d5f90ac27e44625a46d1c63efd3c5950086dae6e1a7d9e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:57 | null | null | Marcel Martel: It was not a pro PQ vote. We know that more or less 69 percent of the population voted for a party other than the Liberals. I can't name a single political commentator who was not surprised by the outcome. I did not buy the argument that the Liberals would be destroyed. However, I was quite surprised tha... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FQuebec-election-result-analysis.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | 2012 Québec election result: not a pro PQ vote | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | David Levy: The New York Times said the 2012 Québec election result represented an anti-Jean Charest vote not a pro PQ vote.true? Marcel Martel: It was not a pro PQ vote. We know that more or less 69% of the population voted for a party other than the Liberals. I can't name a single political commentator who was not su... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Quebec-election-result-analysis.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/174f6636320075b4e3f5efb3015fddac02504e874ae7454e87aaf057e4f08457.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:07:36 | null | null | The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, writing in the 17th century, rejected the view that we are immaterial souls temporarily resident in our physical bodies. We are just complicated flesh machines - 'What is a Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FA-defence-of-the-soul.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | A defence of the soul | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, writing in the 17th century, rejected the view that we are immaterial souls temporarily resident in our physical bodies. We are just complicated flesh machines - “What is a Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/A-defence-of-the-soul.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/ec178e61c32c622af7ca7888f3d7e849d9bdb9e45ae9ae9f3d9366883949c707.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:45 | null | null | It is commonly believed that there is a historical process of development from small social groups to larger ones. If we agree with this theory, we can argue that human history is a process of growing cooperation. But this could be only one aspect of the evolution of human societies... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FState-and-Ideology-Notes-on-Niebuhr-and-Voegelin.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | State and Ideology. Notes on Niebuhr and Voegelin | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It is commonly believed that there is a historical process of development from small social groups to larger ones. If we agree with this theory, we can argue that human history is a process of growing cooperation. But this could be only one aspect of the evolution of human societies. The growing cooperation, if it real... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/State-and-Ideology-Notes-on-Niebuhr-and-Voegelin.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/8c0ba22d67c152c1557de725f8dc9e3776dfdda80f347aeacc198c7a057e7e52.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:12 | null | null | Since death Niccolo Machiavelli has had a long career in the popular culture. His name spawned the adjective ‘Machiavellian' and the noun ‘Machiavellianism.' Not a week passes but that some journalist espies a Machiavellian and detects Machiavellianism in others... Machiavelli has also been conscripted into primatology... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMachiavellian-intelligence-in-primates-and-Machiavelli.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Machiavellian intelligence in primates and Machiavelli | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Since death Niccolò Machiavelli has had a long career in the popular culture. His name spawned the adjective 'Machiavellian' and the noun 'Machiavellianism.' Not a week passes but that some journalist espies a Machiavellian and detects Machiavellianism in others. Both terms are now carved into the vernacular. Moreover,... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Machiavellian-intelligence-in-primates-and-Machiavelli.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/41f1e6a6ede5e98c7e5b971e60029328ab9c1469712d3334271e44561e630b17.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:05 | null | null | The German language has a word, 'Stammtisch,' that really has no English equivalent. The closest translation is something like 'a table reserved for regulars' or 'regular get-together.' | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FOktoberfest-A-Stammtisch-Of-Thousands.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Oktoberfest: A “Stammtisch” Of Thousands | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The German language has a word, "Stammtisch," that really has no English equivalent. The closest translation is something like "a table reserved for regulars" or "regular get-together." Literally speaking, Stammtisch means a table in a bar or restaurant which is reserved for the same guests at the same time every day o... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Oktoberfest-A-Stammtisch-Of-Thousands.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/1d299b15f013894965eb42124f8c4d6f389b365436c520377aa3fb8d85fa96dd.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:25 | null | null | Like his predecessors, LaBute creates characters who are psychologically damaged, but what distinguishes LaBute is his obsessive focus on misogyny. It's hard to find a LaBute play that doesn't feature a man who has cruelly dumped a woman and a woman who has never gotten over it. This is a problem if you accept that pla... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FNeil-LaBute-by-D-J-Lee.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Neil LaBute's Plays | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | (AT RISE we see CASSI, mid-forties, in her salon. The salon is small and upscale, with four workstations. MAUDE, also mid-forties, sits at one of the stations in a cape while CASSI combs MAUDE's hair.) MAUDE I'm at a stage where I'm bored with my hair. I know this happens in a grow-out, and I love my short hair sooooo ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Neil-LaBute-by-D-J-Lee.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/47424a91a513f32bc778304fb1c76dbe67a3bc9cbdceaf80bebf8fdccb93cd03.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:02 | null | null | Short story | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FGreat-Lakes-Foundry.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Great Lakes Foundry 1990 | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In a used bookstore I buy a self hypnosis guide for a quarter and take it under leaning clouds to my apartment and in the spring afternoon I hypnotize me, going down the dark staircases of my ego and id into the deepest parts of my inner self, a trance in the bedroom where a mirror reflects an alarm clock. I feel a str... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Great-Lakes-Foundry.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b038d31fe7f75bcf3d637b9215a05eb6fdcb8655a26513870fa8dff26ccf1ca5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:11 | null | null | Excerpt from Morality and the Movies: Reading Ethics Through Film | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMorality-and-the-Movies-Reading-Ethics-Through-Film-Daniel-Shaw.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Relativism, Perspectivism and Citizen Kane | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Citizen Kane is one of the most philosophically intriguing films ever made, on several levels. It begins with the screening of a rather conventional newsreel which its producer finds unsatisfying. He assigns a journalist to interview several of Kane's closest friends, trying to solve the mystery of Kane's dying word ("... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Morality-and-the-Movies-Reading-Ethics-Through-Film-Daniel-Shaw.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/61eea27809958cae51dbb5961396ac9441ca57fb5a8021fe66af39dd288d14c3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:45 | null | null | A recent report by the International Energy Agency concluded that the United States will displace Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2020. If that does occur, what would it mean for U.S. foreign policy? In particular, could America withdraw from the oil-rich Persian Gulf? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FCrude-Awakenings-Global-Oil-Security-and-American-Foreign-Policy.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | US Oil Independence: Can America’s Oil Boom Free It of Persian Gulf? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | *** CAN AMERICA'S OIL BOOM FREE IT OF PERSIAN GULF? *** By Steve Yetiv *** The Montréal Review, December 2012 *** "Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy" by Steve Yetiv (Cornell University Press, 2010) *** "This is an excellent book that goes against the grain of much of today's thinking. It... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Crude-Awakenings-Global-Oil-Security-and-American-Foreign-Policy.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/7619ed652739fb9d36874c30ac4b79a0e9bc5b3f767487492732d62795ae1443.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:02 | null | null | David Levy on the Rosenbergs and Walter Schneir's 'Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case' | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Murder-of-the-Rosenbergs.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Murder of the Rosenbergs | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "Godlike Voice of Judge Irving R. Kaufman: Will you take care of each other in happiness and in adversity, will you (music drowns the lines) spy on behalf of the Soviet Union and betray the secrets of the Atomic bomb to the enemy, bringing World War Three closer to our shores?" --Vit Horejs, The Very Sad Story of Ethel... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Murder-of-the-Rosenbergs.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6b84fba4e27acf9a9b7d8b74b71316c79e355c43ba05afe6e5ffc6f4833577ee.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:19 | null | null | Syria is awash with war crimes. The people suffer deliberatively inflicted hardship and harm. This is war marked by war crimess--the hallmark of the last three decades, where almost every armed conflict has been marked by strategies of war crimes. Syria is among the worst cases. Yet, those committing these crimes are p... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSyria-and-The-Power-of-Wrongdoing-War-and-War-Crimes-in-the-21st-Century.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Syria and The Power of Wrongdoing | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Syria is awash with war crimes. The people suffer deliberatively inflicted hardship and harm. This is war marked by war crimes – the hallmark of the last three decades, where almost every armed conflict has been marked by strategies of war crimes. Syria is among the worst cases. Yet, those committing these crimes are p... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Syria-and-The-Power-of-Wrongdoing-War-and-War-Crimes-in-the-21st-Century.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d00306f32a72767127927b552ceed022b1f1975c93b894c26d4abb27aadbfd93.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:48 | null | null | Gains and losses; costs and benefits. Thinking in these terms comes naturally to most of us today. And for this we largely have economists to thank... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAdam-Smith-and-the-Character-of-Virtue.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Adam Smith, Markets, and Virtues | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Gains and losses; costs and benefits. Thinking in these terms comes naturally to most of us today. And for this we largely have economists to thank. The language of trade-offs that we all know so well is profoundly indebted to what has been called "the economic way of thinking," and particularly its emphasis on the way... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Adam-Smith-and-the-Character-of-Virtue.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/65f390801ffe59a5c961d7160417cf6a3b3a1c03a4a389bfde6f2f291e05c6a3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:54 | null | null | Each of us will die. Sooner or later, each of you reading this words, as well as I who write them, will be dead. This fact about us affects our lives perhaps more profoundly than any other fact about us... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FDeath-book-by-Todd-May.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Todd May | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Each of us will die. Sooner or later, each of you reading this words, as well as I who write them, will be dead. This fact about us affects our lives perhaps more profoundly than any other fact about us. We live inescapably in the shadow cast by our mortality. Almost everything we do is, in one way or another, structur... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Death-book-by-Todd-May.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/1b51c58c9a8bd425cf812859cb25c9698c1b49d024ef3ea3e85530648cfb2ed2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:56 | null | null | Ancient philosophy - especially after Aristotle - largely focused on how to achieve self-sufficiency on the one hand, and peace of mind on the other; it thus became fundamentally therapeutic, in nature and goal... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Stoics-and-the-Epicureans-on-Friendship-Sex-and-Love.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Stoics and the Epicureans on Friendship, Sex, and Love | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Ancient philosophy - especially after Aristotle - largely focused on how to achieve self-sufficiency on the one hand, and peace of mind on the other; it thus became fundamentally therapeutic, in nature and goal. Though ancient philosophers are generally known for their praise of friendship, there is an evident tension ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Stoics-and-the-Epicureans-on-Friendship-Sex-and-Love.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/dd4763647224d71c0946ec212d19bd620d2b76e440c28a01bd9b98441dc07914.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:40 | null | null | Steven Bilakovics: Democratic politics, the citizen's practice of arguing together, comes in turn to seem oddly out of place in democratic society. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FWhy-We-Hate-Politics-But-Love-Democracy.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Why We Hate Politics, But Love Democracy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Democracy is surely the defining principle of our time. Most every good - freedom and equality, justice and human rights - is today linked to democracy. It is synonymous with political legitimacy and the open society. We fight wars in its name and postulate democratic peace and prosperity theories. Exceptions to democr... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Why-We-Hate-Politics-But-Love-Democracy.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/625966f09f36ac37ad28c98541fe04477cb2692210c1b60ecd13bb7e77f3bfc2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:05 | null | null | For many, China can rise peacefully only after it has changed from a communist dictatorship to a multiparty democracy, where officials are chosen in regular elections. However, without liberation from the powerful complex of historical myth and trauma, I worry that a multiparty democracy could lead China into a dangero... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FNever-Forget-National-Humiliation-Historical-Memory-in-Chinese-Politics-and-Foreign-Relations.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I was in Xuzhou, a city in China's coastal province of Jiangsu, on September 16, 2012. While walking in the largest public square of the city, I saw young people gathering from different directions. They soon formed a large crowd of a few hundred people and began to march along the main street of Xuzhou. In fact, visit... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Never-Forget-National-Humiliation-Historical-Memory-in-Chinese-Politics-and-Foreign-Relations.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/b2047e333b5f59c2c70942c60c4b85c079c70ba806f77127f7b5cfc82dfdd57d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:02 | null | null | Some things never go out of style. This means, of course, comic novels published in England in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, they do go out of print... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FTea-with-the-Vicar-or-the-Pleasures-of-Light-English-Fiction.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Tea with the Vicar, or the Pleasures of Light English Fiction | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Some things never go out of style. This means, of course, comic novels published in England in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, they do go out of print. They reappear fitfully in paperback, are discovered by a new generation, then languish in thrift shops and rummage sales, where you can pick the... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Tea-with-the-Vicar-or-the-Pleasures-of-Light-English-Fiction.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f076ba81d40b5f74901902994cf7b3548c46b4b76ac0dbbbce5484197bebcb44.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:49 | null | null | The man at the registration desk takes possession of my phone and valuables. 'Do you have any questions?' he asks. I hesitate. I have too many to think of the right one. I have just voluntarily handed over my phone—that should occasion a question or two. But I’ve missed my chance. The man points at a map of the buildin... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2Fhappy-in-10-days.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Happy in 10 days | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The man at the registration desk takes possession of my phone and valuables. “Do you have any questions?” he asks. I hesitate. I have too many to think of the right one. I have just voluntarily handed over my phone—that should occasion a question or two. But I’ve missed my chance. The man points at a map of the buildin... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/happy-in-10-days.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/927479c934bd46e312430d870ee6202c0bae4ad3c3be3dce4246cdb51875c9bb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:00 | null | null | King Lear's Edmund surely ranks among the most despised figures of Shakespearean drama and is often held up as a villain par excellence. A close reading of I.ii and V.iii, however, reveals Edmund in a very different light... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FA-Re-Reading-of-Edmund-in-Shakespeare-King-Lear.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | A Re-Reading of Edmund in Shakespeare's King Lear | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | King Lear's Edmund surely ranks among the most despised figures of Shakespearean drama and is often held up as a villain par excellence. A close reading of I.ii and V.iii, however, reveals Edmund in a very different light. Far from being a villain, the self-proclaimed devotee of Nature functions, amid the collapse of s... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/A-Re-Reading-of-Edmund-in-Shakespeare-King-Lear.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/83bd63f20f27ad785d35f62a53b9466d291a707ac0a14f9b205b7dc08c9fdfcf.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:44 | null | null | They traveled north through the city of Weimar and approached the compound at daybreak. It was overcast, and ash sat atop the lofty barbed wire barrier... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Camps.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | By Alicia DeFonzo | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | They traveled north through the city of Weimar and approached the compound at daybreak. It was overcast, and ash sat atop the lofty barbed wire barrier. Electrified fences and trip wires surrounded the complex while heavily armed watchtowers stood every hundred yards. A white platform manned with large artillery loomed... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Camps.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d3eb170a938e4bd450968817bce00704a85abf7184069262b4dfd31e499778cc.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:10 | null | null | Interview with Montreal's fashion designer Duy Nguyen | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FDuy-Fashion-Designer-Interview.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Interview with fashion designer Duy Nguyen | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | TMR: How and why did you choose the profession of fashion designer?
DUY: Since I was young, I always wanted to be a fashion designer or an architect. Since I found out that architecture requires absolute rigour, I felt that I wasn't good enough. Fashion gives you more freedom.
TMR: You created your own very successful ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Duy-Fashion-Designer-Interview.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/407d188b4bf7b361305db68f622afdf5364543f8a027586a8566eeac872dae37.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:40 | null | null | My three brothers, eighteen, sixteen, and fourteen years my senior, lived away from home for most of my childhood. Our interaction was limited to their week-end visits to our parents' house, or the occasional longer stay when they would reoccupy their rooms during intervals between schools or apartments... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FJacks-Room.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Michael Milburn | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | My three brothers, eighteen, sixteen, and fourteen years my senior, lived away from home for most of my childhood. Our interaction was limited to their week-end visits to our parents' house, or the occasional longer stay when they would reoccupy their rooms during intervals between schools or apartments. Regardless of ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Jacks-Room.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/65d64641402301a73c3db630743d8eaf27881d0f8deb3429f89126e9af641196.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:54 | null | null | Short story by Cooper Sy | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FStarbucks-in-the-University-Library-Short-story.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Starbucks in the University Library | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I'm sitting in a Starbucks right in the middle of the University Library at a booth for one next to a booth for two. Two women, both poets, are talking about poetry, poets, publishing poetry and whom they like. Elizabeth Bishop has earned a 'two thumbs up.' The American is a tenured professor in the English Department.... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Starbucks-in-the-University-Library-Short-story.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6d65eb1910cc7b0e96fa73e7b44b8a987e75fceab60e77e8b3186d8e5ee871e2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:59:23 | null | null | What does it mean to be secular? At one time, secularization was thought to be an inevitable consequence of modernization. With the shift from traditional communities to complex, differentiated societies, scholars predicted, religion would wither away... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSecular-Powers.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Julie E. Cooper | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | What does it mean to be secular? At one time, secularization was thought to be an inevitable consequence of modernization. With the shift from traditional communities to complex, differentiated societies, scholars predicted, religion would wither away. Liberated from the bonds of superstition, we would finally assume o... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Secular-Powers.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/4beb6e590353440347b34c2d47ff487e4d56a1b9f42b815570b75611bd8b4b90.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:30 | null | null | Along with jihad, hijra is one of the most powerful buzzwords in the vocabulary of the Islamic State. Signifying the obligation to migrate lands under Muslim rule, hijra has become a recruiting tool par excellence. Hijra has accompanied the Islamic State’s rapid expansion across Syria and Iraq. The lure of migration ac... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FHijra-before-ISIS.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Hijra before ISIS | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Along with jihad, hijra is one of the most powerful buzzwords in the vocabulary of the Islamic State. Signifying the obligation to migrate lands under Muslim rule, hijra has become a recruiting tool par excellence and accompanied the Islamic State’s rapid expansion across Syria and Iraq. The lure of migration accounts ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Hijra-before-ISIS.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d4cb4a129e6b657a3723f7851b3bc963f0da1b33a9a9665391fc2c47230a1aac.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:50 | null | null | My brother Bobby and I looked up from the Nintendo. Our parents had given us the new game console for Christmas, and we had been glued to the television set ever since... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2Fbobo.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Kristen Brownell | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "His name is Bobo." My brother Bobby and I looked up from the Nintendo. Our parents had given us the new game console for Christmas, and we had been glued to the television set ever since. We were beyond obsessed with Donkey Kong Country. We spent our afternoons and weekends collecting bananas, swinging from vines, dom... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/bobo.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d45e95d632f8b947cb511cabe839436ae24f1034d569d1e179eb5d84c1ff8a9f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:54 | null | null | My book is a defense of human dignity. I mean that it is a defense of the equal status of individuals or persons vis-à-vis one another, and a defense of the superior stature of the human species vis-à-vis all others species... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FHuman-Dignity.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Human Dignity | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | My book is a defense of human dignity. I mean that it is a defense of the equal status of individuals or persons vis-à-vis one another, and a defense of the superior stature of the human species vis-à-vis all others species. The concept of human dignity as I use it is thus made up of two related parts, which have a com... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Human-Dignity.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/c93b897a4525bb7cc164d5623e2d464169878fef9deaf23f9c8f707c2cdf04a4.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:54 | null | null | Poetry in prose by Sarah A. Odishoo | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FEating-Angels.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Sarah A. Odishoo | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Biostratus--a spiritual genetic super helix...used to coordinate the double helix grids of creative similitude with the divine image grid for biological programming. --J.J. Hurtak, The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch i So if we are born with a spiritual genetic helix--a God gene--and if we evolved to become consci... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Eating-Angels.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/af9d19c522d5c4098c88037455b6d5d473a307873fcc2b467e29d2fbb1dc1a47.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:36 | null | null | Short Story by Matt Domino | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FPool-Short-Story.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Matt Domino | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | After the engagement party, everyone had left the bar except Sam, Taylor and John. They had sent Erik off with his new fiancée Melissa into the warm September night, casting plenty of whistles and mimed pelvic thrusts towards the couple as they disappeared down the street. John had quit smoking three years earlier, but... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Pool-Short-Story.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/368be4faa77f268cb3a5eaf9bcecdad49cafc23746822efe4a847f4187b25f3d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:20 | null | null | The love affair of Western society with technology has reinforced its tendency to optimism. We believe that unhappiness is a curable condition and the application of intelligence will solve every problem. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FStoic-Pragmatism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | A Satisfying Life | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The love affair of Western society with technology has reinforced its tendency to optimism. We believe that unhappiness is a curable condition and the application of intelligence will solve every problem. We employ a large number of scientists to discover how the world operates and, if necessary, to devise ways to corr... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Stoic-Pragmatism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/6182471dd6eec91b6d872e1a56bf3ca2ffd97e0807e82619c46c4b73a75a4261.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:12 | null | null | SEOUL, Republic of Korea (ROK), June 2001. For reasons of security photography in Kimpo Airport is forbidden. The drive into the city crosses the massive rust-colored Songson Bridge. It was a wet Wednesday evening. Heavy traffic, non-descript post WW2 high rises. Red, green, and blue the preferred colours, a second loo... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FSouth_Korea_in_the_early_2000s.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | South Korea in the early 2000s | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | SEOUL, Republic of Korea (ROK), June 2001. For reasons of security photography in Kimpo Airport is forbidden. The drive into the city crosses the massive rust-colored Songson Bridge. It was a wet Wednesday evening. Heavy traffic, non-descript post WW2 high rises. Red, green, and blue the preferred colours, a second loo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/South_Korea_in_the_early_2000s.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/7a17eb760c639d0424f3bca075b8f81bd87d86c3b9ecc85c7c9dbe92aab32656.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:07 | null | null | What is so important about morality, especially in economics? And why is a culture of honesty crucial to the well-being of society? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-culture-of-dishonesty-and-the-importance-of-moral-behavior-in-economy.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Culture of Dishonesty and the Importance of Moral Behavior in Economy | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | What is so important about morality, especially in economics? And why is a culture of honesty crucial to the well-being of society? My books, "Trust and Honesty: America's Business Culture at a Crossroads" and "The Ponzi Schemes Puzzle" raise different aspects of these questions and suggest awareness of possible answer... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-culture-of-dishonesty-and-the-importance-of-moral-behavior-in-economy.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/4e2fcab5f07c4dddd5a36ce1024dc5ee731bcfbd0358739f1ee97387293b699e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:26 | null | null | It would be a serious error to think the financial crisis resulted from a glitch in the market for mortgage backed securities, or flaws in computer programs at credit rating agencies, or the failure of government regulators to read between lines of fine print... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FEthical-Lessons-of-the-Financial-Crisis.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Financial Market and Ethics: Why Ethics Matter | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It would be a serious error to think the financial crisis resulted from a glitch in the market for mortgage backed securities, or flaws in computer programs at credit rating agencies, or the failure of government regulators to read between lines of fine print. It's easy to understand why people are tempted to think tha... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Ethical-Lessons-of-the-Financial-Crisis.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/912d9ca7ae2c3d8132a22666aacefee0942457e9f20dafc66078c3e4abf0a574.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:24 | null | null | The Russian Origins of the First World War | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FOn-the-Importance-of-the-Ottoman-Straits.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | On the Importance of the Ottoman Straits | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | When I moved to Turkey in 2002, I did not know a word of Turkish. Although I was a historian by profession, I knew little Turkish history, either. Like most Europeans and Americans, I viewed modern history through a western lens. From the French Revolution to the world wars to the fall of Communism, the story of the mo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/On-the-Importance-of-the-Ottoman-Straits.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/28258afc78e861f27fc943718c655f71db23b33032df44a2463b3cf2a804fc4d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:01:17 | null | null | Several years ago, my colleague Adam Nadel and I took confessions from a group of convicted war criminals. They were veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army who, during the Second Sino-Japanese war, committed the worst crimes imaginable: torture, rape, murder of children, and diabolical medical experiments upon kidnappe... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FEvil-Men.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | James Dawes | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Several years ago, my colleague Adam Nadel and I took confessions from a group of convicted war criminals. They were veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army who, during the Second Sino-Japanese war, committed the worst crimes imaginable: torture, rape, murder of children, and diabolical medical experiments upon kidnappe... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Evil-Men.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/3b71ecc3d65d8ea85907ccb0a52f3b86852eea03e7f8fd6c0634d212e491e3ff.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:00 | null | null | Robin Tung interview with the media artist and designer Noa Kaplan. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FArt-and-process-with-Noa-Kaplan.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Art and Process with Noa Kaplan | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | My arrival at the Broad Center at UCLA is rushed; there has been traffic, to no one's surprise, on the 405, and Westwood is bustling at the lunch hour with students, shoppers, and medical professionals. The Broad Center is a white building with long glass panels, and doors propped open to the gallery where I first enco... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Art-and-process-with-Noa-Kaplan.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/f4025f1169c3e51c06d3a2cd74338794bc3061397d22ed35280be223edeae1b7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:47 | null | 2009-10-06T00:00:00 | Excerpt from the Introduction to "10 Steps to Repair American Democracy: A More Perfect Union, 2012 Election Edition" by Steven Hill | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2F10-Steps-to-Repair-American-Democracy-A-More-Perfect-Union.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Political Collapse That Preceded the Economic Collapse | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | In 2008, an economic earthquake of historic proportions shook the world. That was followed by numerous aftershocks whose effects are still being felt years later. In the middle of the economic crash, a new audacity of hope arrived in the form of the first African American president elected in U.S. history. It was a jub... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/10-Steps-to-Repair-American-Democracy-A-More-Perfect-Union.php | en | 2009-10-06T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/463fe58d9739373899ce01ebba86ce0391ccbe9a16ed08ff51352486d22391e7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:16 | null | null | Henry Hardy's introduction to the Isiah Berlins's essays on the culture in Soviet Union | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FIsaiah-Berlin-Essays-on-Soviet-Russia-culture.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Isaiah Berlin's Essays on Soviet Culture | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | PREFACE By Henry Hardy "He possesed a clever but also cruel look and all his countenence bore an expression of a phanatic he signed death verdicts, without moving his eyebrow. His leading motto in life was “The purpose justifies the WAYS” he did not stop before anything for bringing out his plans." Isaiah Berlin, ‘The ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Isaiah-Berlin-Essays-on-Soviet-Russia-culture.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/84718c6a686773e5eba41d39b0bc10e729d9a0822e5b4671d09d861fa256392b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:56 | null | null | The central contention of the “New Atheism” of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens is that there has for several centuries been a war between science and religion... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-last-superstition-a-refutation-of-the-new-atheism-Edward-Feser.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Last Superstition | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The central contention of the "New Atheism" of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens is that there has for several centuries been a war between science and religion, that religion has been steadily losing that war, and that at this point in human history a completely secular scientific a... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-last-superstition-a-refutation-of-the-new-atheism-Edward-Feser.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/667407cf338ca781af9d252824f2ba30995cc90bdc571ff7fec5a5d5b53feb42.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:17 | null | null | Three poems from Michael Milburn's new book | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FMichael-Milburn-Poetry.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Carpe Something | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | *** POEMS FROM CARPE SOMETHING by Michael Milburn, Published by Word Press, 2012 *** The Montréal Review, August 2012 *** Image: "Cloud Nine" by Sarah Lee *** UNEMBRACEABLE Always at the time of greeting and leaving I hang back or move toward in reaction to someone else's step forward, but just can't follow through, tr... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Michael-Milburn-Poetry.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/540c586b226739dbc0b117ab6b94d879f055e58b6a478895c04bde9184651a7a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:50 | null | null | A critique against state paternalism and the politics of welfare. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-welfare-state-and-the-rise-of-paternalism.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The welfare state and the rise of paternalism | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | We live in increasingly paternalistic societies; almost every day, somewhere in the developed world, a new law regulates what people can eat, drink, smoke, view, or read (1); and transactions in goods, financial and labor markets are restricted, in many cases to protect one of the parties against its own mistakes. In m... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-welfare-state-and-the-rise-of-paternalism.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d46b534cb246465c220f43438fe6e4c931d9b4f8c99cf39246d53547e67c623d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:42 | null | null | The recent visit of Dennis Rodman and members of the Harlem Globetrotters to North Korea raises the spectre of Ping-Pong diplomacy in the normalization of relations between China and the U.S. Tragically, this is an unlikely parallel... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Future-of-the-Korean-Peninsula.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Future of the Korean Peninsula | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The recent visit of Dennis Rodman and members of the Harlem Globetrotters to North Korea raises the spectre of Ping-Pong diplomacy in the normalization of relations between China and the U.S. Tragically, this is an unlikely parallel. Ping-Pong was known internationally as the premier Chinese sport, while basketball has... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Future-of-the-Korean-Peninsula.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a385fafa25ed4d29137c6922a76a27378671e9c56bfe021da138dea333ce679e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:28 | null | null | A rare, if not unique, pastoral voice in contemporary Iraqi Arabic poetry, Aisa Alyasiri (residing currently in Canada) was born in 1942 in a village near the city of Amarah in southern Iraq... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Herb-Selected-Poems-by-Aisa-Alyasiri.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Herb: Selected Poems by Aisa Alyasiri | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The Water Lilies (from The Herb, pp.33-35) 1 The flower has its own sadness The bird has its own favorite songs While I have the remnants of the village's dream When the braizer was blowing out Or the wind was calling on the village 2 He said to me . Keeping an eye on the jammed street Wearing his bitter countenance -P... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Herb-Selected-Poems-by-Aisa-Alyasiri.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/8b5510842e739a938b9780e1a0be27fc3fda26495a9df3c4a8cd147cbcbd18f2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:34 | null | null | An essay on the capitalist dynamic and its effects. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Relentless-Revolution-A-History-of-Capitalism-Joyce-Appleby.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Capitalist Dynamics and Progress | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Capitalist initiatives flourished in England throughout the seventeenth-century. In the ensuing decades, it replaced the customary arrangements for raising, making, and consuming the necessities of life locally. Its economic features included an impersonal market, private ownership of resources including one's own labo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Relentless-Revolution-A-History-of-Capitalism-Joyce-Appleby.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a73c7e910c1d5650e0ef63cfddb5a81157e77511df2e214ee8a4f36cb6646fa9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:59:47 | null | null | It is difficult to view the intellectual trends of the past 50 years—or even the past 200 years, for that matter—alongside the argument of this book without thinking that this argument is either hopelessly anachronistic or especially timely... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Foundations-of-Natural-Morality.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Existence of Natural Law and Rights | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | It is difficult to view the intellectual trends of the past 50 years—or even the past 200 years, for that matter—alongside the argument of this book without thinking that this argument is either hopelessly anachronistic or especially timely. As the author, I hope it is the latter. I argue that natural rights and the na... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Foundations-of-Natural-Morality.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/47925962bff883a505dd4a3b0a39c3f05d576bd721010a88f303c3ee6f9e76ab.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:17 | null | null | The music came first, then the photographs. But what images they are: a sculptural Dexter Gordon bathed in cigarette smoke... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FBlue-notes-in-black-and-white-by-Benjamin-Cawthra.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Photography and Jazz | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The music came first, then the photographs. But what images they are: a sculptural Dexter Gordon bathed in cigarette smoke. Miles Davis, with the piercing eyes and fashion sense. Duke Ellington's air of elegance. John Coltrane's alternating passion and serenity. Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz would... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Blue-notes-in-black-and-white-by-Benjamin-Cawthra.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/3195c8630e449f5b70e0c5ed18e9a93bee706bdbce2d29f3606d12d5b6a8dce9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:08 | null | null | It sounds paradoxical, but today it appears that we understand more about the universe than our society... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-Organizing-Principles-Behind-Economy-Complex-Systems.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Network of Global Corporate Control | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | "We spend billions of dollars trying to understand the origins of the universe, while we still don't understand the conditions for a stable society, a functioning economy, or peace." Dirk Helbing, Professor of Sociology at ETH in Zurich *** It sounds paradoxical, but today it appears that we understand more about the u... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Organizing-Principles-Behind-Economy-Complex-Systems.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/5255a3b0a6287bc719a9e072a40eff9daeb97e9975fb181cff7c0db26ebbd1e9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:30 | null | null | The role of diplomacy in international relations. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FHow-Enemies-Become-Friends-The-Sources-of-Stable-Peace.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | The Sources of Stable Peace | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | The bloodshed in Syria, the building confrontation over Iran's nuclear program, the territorial dispute between Israelis and Palestinians - these and many other clashes seem to underscore diplomacy's limited ability to resolve major international challenges. Time and again, such disputes befuddle even the most talented... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/How-Enemies-Become-Friends-The-Sources-of-Stable-Peace.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/28ddaa9cf58c7c977ad616e3271162c5cc434d0905036ebbf593aaee25999023.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:23:12 | null | null | Books: Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FWas-America-Founded-as-a-Christian-Nation.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | During the week of June 11, 2007, four thousand Christians converged on Williamsburg, Virginia, to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of Jamestown-the first successful English colony in North America. The event was sponsored by Vision Forum Ministries, an organization that, among other things, is ... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Was-America-Founded-as-a-Christian-Nation.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/d2bcaece3f73a634babb8e5083dff3b54309d4d7224b30b067d0797e61d90f00.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:27 | null | null | Patriotism, to quote George Bernard Shaw, 'is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.' The same may be said of American exceptionalism. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FAmerican-Exceptionalism-American-Freedom.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | American Exceptionalism, American Freedom | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | Patriotism, to quote George Bernard Shaw, "is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it." The same may be said of American exceptionalism. The phrase "American exceptionalism" has had a highly unusual career. It seems to have originated in debates in the 1920s and 1930s amo... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/American-Exceptionalism-American-Freedom.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/46aa604dd2526c6a3476725a044513d83d04a3ea48eab0a92e6fff701ad41073.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:29 | null | null | For a young Montrealer growing up in the 1960s and 70s, China seemed like a far away, almost imaginary place, with utopian communities like Shangri-La and Xanadu... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FFrom-Montreal-to-Beijing-Daniel-A-Bell.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | From Montreal to Beijing | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | For a young Montrealer growing up in the 1960s and 70s, China seemed like a far away, almost imaginary place, with utopian communities like Shangri-La and Xanadu (I’ve since visited both places – Xanadu is a patch of grassland in Inner Mongolia and “Shangri-La” is a small town in Yunnan province that has been renamed t... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/From-Montreal-to-Beijing-Daniel-A-Bell.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/48faf770a579c462ab0d6aef6450e712a046c844122c14cd4ac83bbae3c7c95d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:22:47 | null | null | How did we get to the point where we miss the smells that a dog experiences but we see the rest of life in fine, colorful detail and depth?... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FThe-fruit-the-tree-and-the-serpent-by-Lynne-Isbell.php.json | http://themontrealreview.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Why We See So Well | null | null | www.themontrealreview.com | I still find it amazing that my dog's eyesight is so poor. The other day he confused another man standing perhaps three meters away, with my husband. They had the same height, build, gray moustache, and ubiquitous baseball cap. But my dog couldn't see the differences in their faces and he bounced eagerly to greet the s... | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-fruit-the-tree-and-the-serpent-by-Lynne-Isbell.php | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.themontrealreview.com/a85c3c266b1b2e3b9b555b62f1675019a0778fe5e4d2a13f8e26c5b4d9ce7db0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:53:30 | null | 2016-08-18T10:54:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allegannews.com%2Fallegan-news-news%2Fhillside-center-principal-jonathan-garcia-sentenced.json | http://www.allegannews.com/sites/default/files/Flavorcon_0.jpg | en | null | Hillside center principal Jonathan Garcia sentenced | null | null | www.allegannews.com | A former principal who admitted sexually assaulting three of his Allegan Area Educational Service Agency employees has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.
Jonathan Eugene Garcia, 35, was in Allegan County Circuit Court Wednesday, Aug. 10, to be sentenced on three counts of criminal sexual conduct.
Assista... | http://www.allegannews.com/allegan-news-news/hillside-center-principal-jonathan-garcia-sentenced | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.allegannews.com/b8ffbba0cc5d7ba50be6058a5f081d3c9821e53baa7289b2dc2bdc767d8fd65f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:54:27 | null | 2016-08-19T08:30:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allegannews.com%2Fallegan-news-news%2Fmartin-school-district%25E2%2580%2599s-finances-praised-auditor.json | http://www.allegannews.com/sites/default/files/Flavorcon_0.jpg | en | null | Martin school district’s finances praised by auditor | null | null | www.allegannews.com | Auditors had no recommendations for Martin Public Schools because there was nothing to fix with the district’s finances.
The small district continues to keep its general fund balance above 15 percent of its revenue, something few districts can claim, according to superintendent David Harnish.
The annual audit was accep... | http://www.allegannews.com/allegan-news-news/martin-school-district%E2%80%99s-finances-praised-auditor | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.allegannews.com/8cdcf9732653b8052e5dce588786ee307076c99bd37a30931d8302223728fe02.json |
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