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Vol. 10, No. 2, 2011

     
 
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CONTENTS
  1. Analysis
DAVID SOLWAY opines on the Canadian elections.
"The Conservative majority augurs reasonably well for the next four years."
  2. Race Relations
WHY BLACK WOMEN ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY AGAINST INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE by Marina Adshade
Despite finding white and black men equally attractive.
  3. Photography
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE VERSUS THE HETEROSEXUAL DICTATORSHIP by Robert J. Lewis
"And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge."
  4. Opinion
DECONSTRUCTING TOLERANCE by Yoav J. Tenembaum
Tolerance should not be tolerated.
  5. Book Review
HOLY SHIT: MANAGING MANURE TO SAVE MANKIND reviewed by Todd Simmons
We have to learn to either work with it or drown in it.
  6. Analysis
SUICIDE BOMBERS: THE PARADOX OF POWER by J. A. Quaytman
What makes altruistic freedom fighters go tick tick tick?
  7. Report
ACADEMIC BURDENS ON BLACK ATHLETES by Thabiti Lewis
Off court fouls and the culture of greed.
  8.

Interview
LINDA MCQUAIG interviewed by Shawn Conner
Why have tax rates for the rich plummetted from 91% to 35%?


  9.

Report
APOCALYPSE SOON by Donald. A. Collins
It's 11:59 and soon there will be nine billion of us.


  10.
Dementia
A WALK WITH MOTHER DOWN MEMORY LAME by Geoff Olson
"I'd hold her hand and try not to cry so I wouldn't upset her."

  11.
Book Review
THE ISLAMIST (ED HUSAIN) reviewed by Farzana Hassan
"Why I became an Islamic fundamentalist, what I saw inside and why I left.

  12.
Word Nerd
NO APOLOGY FOR NEOLOGY by Howard Richler
A list of the new words on the block.

  13.
Essay
DOES QUALITY MATTER IN ART? by Rick Poynor
Once upon a time there was a difference between high and low art.

  14.
Cinema
LOLA reviewed by Ron Wilkinson
Director Brillante Mendoza is to Filipino cinema what Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf are to Iranian.

  15.
Visual Arts
CAROL R. SCOTT - A RELUCTANT COLLECTOR
Nominating the Ducasse and Swoger collections for posterity.

     

 

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