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On Good Intentions

“A humanitarian is always a hypocrite,” wrote George Orwell in a 1942 essay on the English reactionary poet Rudyard Kipling. Our existences all closely depend on the exploitation and robbery of dollar-a-day...

Worms, Design and Resilience: A Youth’s Internship in Botswana

As usual, there is a radio playing loudly in the background as I type away at my computer. The station plays whatever sounds good, including Botswana house music. I’m not a house fan but when you go...

The Essence of High School Politics

If my high school, Victoria Park CI, was a country in its own right – Victoria Parktopia let’s say – then I think we’d be doing pretty well compared to other entities in the United Nations (the Toronto District School...

On Voting

One of the commonplace arguments against democracy has always been that the masses, as ignorant and uncaring as they are, could not be bothered to pick a decent leader for themselves if their lives...

The Ultimate ‘Top Tens’ Lists

The Top Ten Medical Myths of the World, The Top Ten Must-See Cities of the World, The Top Ten Most Expensive Cars in the World, The Top Ten Richest People in the World (as of 2010)

Politics of (dis)Engagement

In 1964, Bob Dylan intoned “Don't criticize/What you can't understand/Your sons and your daughters/Are beyond your command”. His words marked the tension between communities of different ages...