Essays published
in UNB's campus newspaper The
Brunswickan.
- Affirmative
to Affirmative Action - 1990-02-23
Defending a correction
in progress, and wrenching society, particularly painfully in Canada
for a bewildered generation of otherwise good-willed unilingual white
men.
- Capitalism
and Socialism - 1990-03-16
Trying to balance the
drunken ideological stumble from "freedom won"
to "capitalism perfect" shortly after
the collapse of communism. (Didn't work - had to await "internal
contradictions" and 2008.)
- First
Principles in a Post Cold-War World - 1990-09-21
Arguing that
Canada, who's PM won the Nobel Peace Price for helping establish
UN peace-keeping, should join the war to liberate Kuwait, because
stopping war was the reason the UN was created.
- In
Memory of a Great Man - 1990-09-28
Remembering the 1960's
activist Abby Hoffman's visit to UNB after his untimely passing,
and why we should get up off our butts and vote,
because democracy rules, man.
- Rights
and Wrongs - 1991-10-11
The necessity of constitutional supremacy of individual rights over collective
rights to both individual and societal freedom, in the context of an eventually
failed Canadian
attempt
at the reverse.
- Gonzo
Constitution Making - 1991-11-08
The result of the collision of every power a Prime Minister
could bring to bear in a democratic society with the common sense of the
citizenry watching a national consensus form on cable TV.
- Women-Then
and Now - 1991-11-15
Illuminating highlights of a debate
in 1899 in the New Brunswick Legislature on extending
the vote to women. (W.M. Stewart's great-grandfather unfortunately
voted against.)
- Money Isn't Real - 1991-11-29
Thoughts on the evolution and ephemeral nature of money.
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