St. Petersburg: Monuments to Egotism

Page through Alan Bullock’s biography of Adolf Hitler or or Li Zhishui’s reminiscences of Mao Zedong and you will need no further evidence of the truth of Lord Acton’s dictum that absolute power corrupts absolutely. St. Petersburg, however, more than … Continued

Neil Reynolds, R.I.P.

Veteran newspaperman Neil Reynolds died last Sunday at the age of 72. He and I share two cities: Kingston, Ontario (where each of us was born), and Vancouver, where we both lived from 2000 to 2003. During that brief Vancouver … Continued