“He shoots! He scores!” It’s playoff time in the National Hockey League, and we Canadians alter our social lives accordingly....

The name of our national holiday is, not to put too fine a point on it, very Canadian. The first day of July commemorates the July 1,...

Ian was one of those scholars who perhaps know more than they can handle. (Others of us, of course, know less than we seem to.) His...

Adam Gopnik, reviewing a book on the Paris Commune of 1871 in The New Yorker, offers this powerful observation: Historians from the right...