Book Essays


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1998 (03-3-5) Encrypting Christianity, a comprehensive Book Review of three books by Barbara Thiering

1999 (04-1-09) Entropy: A New World View; Algeny; The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era, Authors: Jeremy Rifkin, Ted Howard, and Nicanor Perlas

1999 (04-1-10) Favourite Books of 1998

2001 (06-1-3) Two Cultures: The gap between humanists and scientists, A Review Essay on Stephen Jay Gould

2001 (06-2-5) Working Poor

2001 (06-3-6) Demonizing the Corporation

2002 (07-1-4) The Future of Government, a review essay

2002 (07-2-08) Nor Commit A Social Science

2002 (07-2-09) Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform: Into the Twenty-first Century and Reimagining Social Welfare: Beyond the Keynesian Welfare State

2003 (08-1-08) Canada’s Innovation Strategy: The Politics of Partnership, by Industry Canada & Human Resources Development Canada

2003 (08-3-9) Creativity Enhancement Books: How To, Not What To

2003 (08-4-08) The Politics of Public Management: The HRDC Audit of Grants and Contributions, and Agents of Change: Crossing the Post-Industrial Divide.

2004 (09-2-10) Managing Innovation

2005 (10-1-16) Review Essay: Democratic Social Engagement

2005 (10-2-09) Review Essay: Canada’s Systems of Innovation

2005 (10-3-11) Working with Cynicism

2006 (11-3-11) The Limits of Critical Thinking

2008 (13-2-08) The Spectre of Liberalism

2008 (13-2-09) Ever Since Plato: The Corporatization of Curriculum

2014 (19-1-14) Optimistic Apocalyptics – Books reviewed: What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk on the Next American Revolution and We Are All Apocalyptics Now, On the Responsibilities of Teaching, Preaching, Reporting, Writing and Speaking Out

2018 (23-1-3) Reflections (on the World), Hillary Rodham Clinton, Edward W. Said and Naguib Mahfouz

2019 (24-1-3) The Devil Redux

2019 (24-1-4) Growing Pains: The future of democracy (and work)

2019 (24-2-3) Energy Transformation

2019 (24-2-4) Review Essay: Why are American Politics Extreme?

2021 (26-1-5) Public Policy Handbooks

2021 (26-1-6) Comment on Review Essay Public Policy Handbooks

2022 (27-2-4) Saskatchewan: Myth and Reality and Left to Right, two books by Dale Eisler

2023 (28-1-07) Review Essay: Minority Perspectives

2025 (30-1-03) Review Essay: Social Welfare Policy in Canada