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We Can't Afford To Waste People. We Can't Afford To Have People Think The Game Is Over Before It's Begun. We've Got To Be Saying To The Canadian People: You Can't Tax Cut Your Way To A Productive 21st-century Economy. You Can Talk That Talk, But It's Not Going To Give You A Productive 21st-century Economy, Because It Will Scythe Apart The Public Goods That Make Prosperity Possible. That's What We've Got To Say, And So We Shall.

A Liberal Society Cannot Be Defended By Herbivores. We Need Carnivores To Save Us, But We Had Better Make Sure The Meat-eaters Hunt Only On Our Orders.

No Kid Graduating In A Political Science Class In Canada Should Not Understand What's Happened To Income Inequality Since The 1970s, Period. And Then, What Do We Do About It? It's The Biggest Problem Out There, In All Western Liberal Societies.

Memory Is The Only Afterlife I Have Ever Believed In. But The Forgetting Inside Us Cannot Be Stopped. We Are Programmed To Betray.

America's Entire War On Terror Is An Exercise In Imperialism. This May Come As A Shock To Americans, Who Don't Like To Think Of Their Country As An Empire. But What Else Can You Call America's Legions Of Soldiers, Spooks And Special Forces Straddling The Globe?