Commentary

Publicity should not invite violence Re: “Why don’t you just do it inside?” | Letters | February 12 In response to Stephanie Ränkin and Hillary… Read More »Letters

Four members of the Arts Faculty criticized (The Daily, 12 February) those who had signed an open letter appearing in Le Devoir at the end… Read More »Hyde Park: McGill profs defend call for boycott

There’s a urban legend about influential comics scribe Will Eisner that claims he coined the term “graphic novel.” The tale says that while pitching his… Read More »Hyde Park: Comics in the mainstream: boobs and the X-treme

As Cultural Studies buzzwords dance flippantly over my head, I abandon my lecture for sanity in the form of online news reports. First, BBC tells… Read More »Comment: Martha’s hotness isn’t news

Weapons, to state the obvious, are extremely complicated. High-tech explosives are not something your average McGill student understands particularly well. This may be one reason… Read More »Hyde Park: Higher learning or higher-tech weapons?

Last Thursday, 450 students voted against debating the motion to condemn the bombings of educational institutions in Gaza. A question that I thought would reach… Read More »Hyde Park: Separating politics from human rights

“If it bleeds, it leads,” goes the journalistic maxim. But it is clear that not all blood is equally worthy of the front page. Supposedly… Read More »Hyde Park: No news is bad news

If I had a boat, I’d go out on the ocean, and if I had a pony, I’d ride him on my boat… For most… Read More »Sailing through life on a country song’s ifs

“We might test judgement by asking, on the issue of Iraq, who best anticipated how events turned out.” – Michael Ignatieff, in his 2007 essay… Read More »Piñata diplomacy: Righting our wrongs over Iraq

There is an all-too-familiar litany of complaints that follow the question, “So, how do you like McGill?” posed so frequently by probing family members: the… Read More »Hyde Park: Taking diversity to class

Would the real Harvard nix Humanistics? Re: “In defence of Humanistic Studies” | Commentary | February 9 I stand with Richard Kreitner in support of… Read More »Letters

Last week, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum released a statement on the economic downturn and the effects it will have on the University. Her observations paint a… Read More »Editorial: Hitting the economic books

In my last column I introduced you to my friend Patrick* who, by the way, is a real person and not a figment of my… Read More »Aristotle’s Lackey: Patrick Part II – the secular fundamentalist

Sustainability is often regarded as a “buzzword,” which, according to some, tends to lose meaning with every additional utterance. But for my purposes, it remains… Read More »Hyde Park: The Sustainability Office’s story

Canadians tend to look south for black history, pointing fingers at the U.S. for slavery and segregation while ignoring blemishes on our own history. As… Read More »Editorial: Bringing Canadian black history to class