John Stackhouse
1 min read
The Paradoxes of Canada’s National Sport
“He shoots! He scores!” It’s playoff time in the National Hockey League, and we Canadians alter our social lives accordingly....
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Canada: Getting Worse—and Better
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,...


John Stackhouse
3 min read
In Memoriam: Ian S. Rennie
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...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
History Matters
Adam Gopnik, reviewing a book on the Paris Commune of 1871 in The New Yorker, offers this powerful observation: Historians from the right...