The World of Trump Pagun (VANCOUVER ISLAND) Despite the uproar caused by the inexplicably ham-fisted release of yet another batch of innocuous Hillary Clinton emails, with less than a week until the US presidential election, the Democrats are on … [Continue reading]
Just Ahead: The Final Curtain
Endgame Pagun (VANCOUVER ISLAND) With less than two weeks left of the ugliest presidential campaign in living memory, it is now evident, to all but the hardest of the hardcore conspiracy theorists and the most willfully bubble-dwelling Trump … [Continue reading]
Democracy? What Democracy?
Democracy in America 2016 Pagun VANCOUVER ISLAND) The Washington Post recently published an article describing the results of a study that seem to show that Americans’ confidence in their government is at its lowest ebb since the Civil War. Perhaps … [Continue reading]
Language in the era of uncertainty
Declining Standards or a Sea Change? Pagun (VANCOUVER ISLAND) I use the phrase “Sea Change” ironically to point out the declining standards also referred to in the slug above this essay. Although Shakespeare used the phrase in Ariel's Song in The … [Continue reading]
The Fact-free Future
Embracing Ignorance Pagun (VANCOUVER ISLAND) As western politics become increasingly polarised, and the liberal vs. conservative battle lines are drawn ever more far apart, one feature of the conflict becomes particularly bemusing: questions of … [Continue reading]
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