Fixing American Democracy – An Outsider’s View

 Most Canadians have conflicting emotions about the political situation in our powerful neighbour to our immediate south. Smugness and alarm engage in an ongoing tug-of-war in our brains and our guts as we watch the politics of the United States of America become increasingly fractious, dysfunctional, and, to a not

Designs and Democracy: The politics of imperfectly levelled playing fields

 One of the facts of life on the water is that reckless operators of boats are legally responsible for their wake damage. But you have to catch them first. In the politics of democracies, it’s even more of a free-for-all, but sometimes your wake damage does catch up with you.