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Latest From Conrad Black
John Lukacs, R.I.P.: The American Who Understood Europe
John Lukacs, who died last week at 95, was one of America's outstanding historians, and one of the most prolific historians in the Western world in the last 60 years. A native of Hungary, he fled the Communist Soviet puppet regime in that country shortly after World War II and was a history professor at a small Roman Catholic women's college (Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia) for 47 years (1947–1994), the first 27 of those years as ...
Dear Readers and Friends, I am pleased to share the official trailer for my latest book The Canadian Manifesto. You can view it here: https://youtu.be/WSWDMrO-Hm0 "Black's Manifesto reminds us who we were and, therefore, who we are. In doing so, he lays the groundwork for us to consider who we might yet become." – Jordan Peterson, University of Toronto, Author of 12 Rules for Life The Canadian Manifesto is available in stores or online at: http ... |
Latest From Barbara Amiel
Off the cliff went Evan Solomon, the most recent putative successor to CBC's über-news personality Peter Mansbridge. Before him it was Amanda Lang, whose rumoured future as the next Mansbridge was detonated by the stir over her relationship with the Royal Bank of Canada. Being thought of as possible heir to Mansbridge should come with danger pay. And if success is measured in terms of successfully getting rid of your successors, the outcome was an (unwished for) success for Peter. On spring miracles and monarch butterflies
"Do you remember," I asked the butterfly, "how you felt when you came out of your chrysalis and discovered you could fly?" The butterfly quivered. This was last October when I was chatting to lingering monarchs in our garden. "Did you have any memory, as your wings dried and you began to soar toward the sun, of what it was like to be a caterpillar, all wriggly and earthbound?" |
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Conrad Black's conversations with Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, on a number of subjects including dissatisfaction with the EU, several years before Brexit.
Conrad Black talks with Bob Rae, former NDP Premier of Ontario and former interim leader of the federal Liberal Party, about politics, problems facing Aboriginal communities across Canada, the "niqab issue," religious fanaticism, and many other topics. |
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