Month: June 2009

Because I am in one of those sentimental moods today.

Seeing the way that so many people in the West’s Establishment are willing to vouch for the Iranian election returns, it becomes painfully clear how much our Establishment relies on bogeymen to sustain their agenda...

There is always something palpable and exciting when revolution hangs in the air. Juan Coles’s anonymous academic source captures the mood of the pro-Mousavi marches in Tehran. Of course, not all revolutions succeed, and...

The “Greatest Canadian” in history, according to a recent Canadian Broadcasting Company viewer vote, was not Wayne Gretsky or Alexander Graham Bell. It was Tommy Douglas, the politician who most responsible for...

There are only about thirty living marja taqlid (or Grand Ayatollahs) in the world today. Almost all of them are either Iranian or Iraqi, and all of them have been educated in Iran (mainly in Qom), Iraq (mainly in Najaf), or...