The Architecture of Authenticity
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What is Canadian Sovereignty for? Trump, Carney, and the Freedom to Bind Ourselves
There are, I think, two Carneys. The first Carney is the sovereignist. The second Carney is the institutionalist. These are not merely two tones. They contain two different understandings of sovereignty. Continue reading
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There Will Always Be Boxes Beside the Door
Maturity sometimes looks more like making room. We keep what has formed us without allowing it to occupy all the available space. That applies to ideas. It applies to traditions. It applies to the judgments of parents and teachers whose voices we may still hear years after they are gone. It applies even to our… Continue reading
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Truthful Belonging: How Can a Life Become Our Own?
Sometimes belonging provided the conditions in which a life could flourish. Sometimes it narrowed what could be spoken or pursued. Sometimes individual aspiration opened a life; sometimes it damaged relationships whose value became visible only after they were strained. Continue reading