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“Modern empire was not an aberrant supplement to the history of modernity but rather its constituent part.” These words are from the preface of The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power (2012) by Partha Chatterjee. What conceptual framework drove the British to establish themselves in Long Branch? The above-noted book […]
David Byrne is author of How Music Works (2012). You can access an Oct. 18, 2013 CBC interview with him here. You can access his journal, entitled the David Byrne Journal, here. The opening of his most recent journal entry reads: 11.04.13: Fair and Balanced About a week ago, there was a discussion between former […]
Updates: A Feb. 1, 2014 Toronto Star article is entitled: “Crazy Town: The Rob Ford story, exclusive excerpt of Robyn Doolittle’s book.” A Feb. 2, 2014 CBC interview with Robyn Doolittle on The National can be accessed here. A Feb. 13, 2014 Globe and Mail article is entitled: “Police seek more answers from residents of […]
An Oct. 18, 2013 Toronto Star article is entitled: “Mental illness: is ‘chemical imbalance’ theory a myth?” Chemical balance theory has fallen in status The subhead reads: “The chemical imbalance theory has fallen in status from bedrock scientific principle to mere marketing device in the minds of many researchers.” The assumption is questioned that brain […]
As I’ve discussed in previous posts, relatively little is known about Colonel Samuel Smith of Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey) as a historical personality. There hasn’t been much of a mythology built around him. Consequently, our attention isn’t taken up with Colonel Samuel as a brand. He doesn’t have a brand, as many of […]
In earlier decades, I often came across variations of a statement for young people thinking of their future careers. Typically, the advice would be along the lines of: Focus on what you love and your career will follow from that. In more recent years, I’ve tended to come across the advice that young people would […]
There was nothing liberal about the British empire, claims to the contrary notwithstanding. In Ghosts of Empire (2011), Kwasi Kwarteng argues that “Britain’s empire was not liberal in the sense of being a plural, democratic society. The empire openly repudiated ideas of human equality and put power and responsibility into the hands of a chosen elite, drawn […]