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Written on 29 Sep, 2011 at 9:56 in
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Review Paul Tuns Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think by Bryan Caplan (Basic Books, $29, 228 pages)
Bryan Caplan is a libertarian thinker and economics professor at George Mason University. He is always provocative and is one of my favourite writers. I was without a doubt going to enjoy his latest book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Sep, 2011 at 10:03 in
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Columnist Rick McGinnis Television is the most modern, the most omnipresent, and the most pervasive of all the media arts, which is the reason I devote so much time in this column to analyzing its effect on our culture. It’s not hard to understand why; unless parents have made the conscious decision to take TV out of their home, it’s likely that the average child will have seen many hours of television programming before ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Aug, 2011 at 12:50 in
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Review Paul Tuns Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl (Public Affairs, $31.50, 313 pages)
A book authored by Science’s Beijing correspondent has garnered a lot of attention for pointing out that a combination of depopulation ideology, ultrasound technology, and late-term abortion has led to what Mara Hvistendahl has called “163 million missing women,” mostly in Asia where boy babies are valued over girl ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 7:53 in
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Review Rick McGinnis The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture by David Mamet (Sentinel, $32.50, 256 pages)
Even during an apparent renaissance of conservative book publishing, one book has been anticipated more than almost any other this season. Anyone who considers themselves religious will recognize The Secret Knowledge by David Mamet as a conversion story, albeit one told in brief, scattershot chapters, written quickly, like moments of late-night inspiration captured on a notebook ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 May, 2011 at 13:38 in
Book Review, Columnist, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
My new book, Why Catholics Are Right (McClelland & Stewart) has just been published. For those readers who are not Catholic, please know that this is in no way an attack on you. Some of the finest defenders of life I know are, for example, evangelical Protestants, who could also teach me a great deal about being a Christian. What should concern readers of The Interim is that one of the chapters ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Mar, 2011 at 7:14 in
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Review Harley Price
The Trouble With Canada … Still by William Gairdner
(Key Porter, $24.95, 534 p)
In print less than two years after his splendid Book of Absolutes, William Gairdner’s The Trouble with Canada…Still, his twelfth major work to date, promises to be yet another bestseller. In a country whose inhabitants are so contentedly in thrall to the “Swedish model” that they suffer both figuratively and literally from the Stockholm syndrome, Gairdner’s is no mean ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Dec, 2010 at 8:59 in
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Review Michael Taube
Ask parents to come up with things that make their children cringe, and you will have enough material to fill an entire 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica set. Such a list would likely include the ever unpopular liver and onions, green vegetables, romantic movies and, without question, big, thick, heavy hardcover books.
It doesn’t matter if your child likes to read, or would rather watch paint dry on a hot summer’s day. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Dec, 2010 at 14:17 in
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Justin Press, a Catholic publishing house, was founded in 2009. It is dedicated to the publication of works of Catholic culture and apologetics that reflect the teaching of the Magisterium.
Justin Press will provide the Canadian public with access to the best thought and writing in the Canadian Catholic world. Among the outstanding initial group of contributors are Michael O'Brien, Douglas Farrow, David Warren, Lars Troide and Fr. Jonathan Robinson; we will maintain the highest standard of quality in our future ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Oct, 2010 at 6:15 in
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Review Rick McGinnis The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens (Zondervan, $26.99, 224 p.)
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens (McLelland & Stewart, $32.99, 435 p.)
As Peter Hitchens began his adult life, like his brother, in the bosom of the British left during its penultimate revival – the ‘60s, when youth and Marxism were popularly supposed to be twinned in sympathy and aspiration. Like his brother he became a journalist and, like his brother, he had ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Sep, 2010 at 5:07 in
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Reviewed by Kathy Shaidle
Sexual Sabotage: How one mad scientist unleashed a plague of corruption and contagion on America by Judith A. Reisman (WND Books, 403 pages, $25.96)
Judith Reisman has devoted her life to exploring one of the most depressing and disturbing stories of the 20th century: the “scientific research” about human sexuality conducted by Alfred Kinsey that altered the mores, culture and legal system of Western societies, for the worse.
While this disgusting story ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Aug, 2010 at 9:52 in
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Review Paul Tuns A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy:
The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement
by Wesley J. Smith (Encounter Books, $32.95, 312 pages)
Wesley Smith is well known to Interim readers. He is a leading authority on euthanasia and bioethics, having written extensively on both topics, and spoken about related issues. He has now turned his attention to the animal rights movement, which is animated and motivated by ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jul, 2010 at 6:43 in
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Paul Tuns Editor Last month I reviewed Marci McDonald’s hideous book The Armageddon Factor. I chose to focus on the numerous errors throughout the book – author Denyse O’Leary has coined the term ‘marcis’ to describe “errors of fact that fact-checking would have prevented.” On TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paiken, McDonald pointed out that her critics have merely pointed out the factual errors in her screed and have not criticized her argument. She ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Jun, 2010 at 13:18 in
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ReviewPaul Tuns The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada
by Marci McDonald
(Random House, $32, 419 pages)
If you deliberately set out to write a bad book you would have a hard time outdoing Marci McDonald, whose The Armageddon Factor is so comprehensively awful that there is no reason whatsoever to ever read it. The long-time journalist has set her sights on exposing the rise of the Religious Right in Canada and its ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 May, 2010 at 11:31 in
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Review Paul Tuns Notably, social issues absent from negotiations between two left-of-center parties
How We Almost Gave the Tories the Boot
(The Inside Story Behind the Coalition) by Brian Topp
(Lorimer, $24.95, 192 pp.)
The coalition that almost usurped power from the Conservatives in the fall of 2008 seems like a distant memory in the spring of 2010, but How We Almost Gave the Tories the Boot (The Inside Story Behind the Coalition), the political memoir of one ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Dec, 2009 at 8:58 in
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Review by Oswald Clark As I See It by Michael Coren (Freedom Press, $21.95 paperback, 306 pages)
When I went to university in the United States, I stopped following Canadian news, but I did continue reading a few Canadian columnists on the internet. One of those columnists was Michael Coren. There are many reasons why I should not have read him. He supports more government intervention than I, an economist, would like. He has what ... (Continue reading)
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