Category Archives: Culture

(June 21, 1999) This revised edition of updates important events Canada and Quebec in Canada from 1994 through Quebec’s 1997 referendum on sovereignty, with snippets from some 100 media interviews of Canadian historians, politicians, columnists, and assorted intellectuals (pseudo and real). Continue reading →

(June 21, 1999) Strange times, these last days of the millennium. An American president is exposed as a serial philanderer and a perjurer, and his popularity increases. Continue reading →

(June 21, 1999) Prominent U.S. feminist Katha Pollitt once said that feminism promised women “a life not just with more justice but also with more freedom, more self-respect, more choices, more pleasure.” Continue reading →

(June 21, 1999) Yale professor of history Paul Kennedy has often made predictions about the world’s future. In 1987, he foretells the United States’ decline and Japans’ continued ascension and eventual domination, which struck a chord with Americans insecure about their ability to compete with Japan. Continue reading →