Travelogue of an Armchair Traveller.
Hélène Crié-Wiesner, Rue89 Au secours ! La grande prêtresse du genre littéraire « french-women-know-best » (les-femmes-françaises-savent-tout-mieux-que-nous) est de retour pour Noël dans les librairies américaines. Son nouveau livre va encore nous embarrasser, nous Françaises installées aux Etats-Unis.
John Thavis Viking Bibliothèque de Ville de Montréal, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce The Vatican is typically viewed as a monolithic power structure that pursues a global agenda with a unified sense of mission. John Thavis, who covered the Vatican beat for 30 years, knows that the reality is far different. It’s a place where Curia cardinals fight private…
Le prince Charles est un ardent défenseur de la médecine alternative et est fier d’être « l’ennemi des Lumières ». Pour la première fois, Edzard Ernst raconte toute l’histoire de l’ignorance et de la folie de Charles. Science-Based Medicine.
Donald J. Savoie, What Is Government Good At? A Canadian Answer, (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015). – Leaving aside the Prime Minister and a handful of advisers, no one is in charge in government. – Among other things, government managers and unions need to explain why, on average, fewer than 100 employees are dismissed for…
Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch By Nick Davies Chatto & Windus 448 pages In 2008, Nick Davies put out a book arguing that the British press had become passive conduits of propaganda and public relations. It was the serious newspapers and broadcasters that concerned him then. “Nobody needs a book…