http://www.themontrealreview.com Politics, Culture, Ideas http://www.themontrealreview.com/photo2/montreal_page/top-banner-small.gif http://www.themontrealreview.com http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Premonition.php Short story http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Beeswax-Vocal-Chords.php Poetry http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Dont-Get-Comfortable.php Short story http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Happiness.php Poetry http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Pet-Poem.php A prose poem http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Fate-of-the-Alpha.php A short story http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Big-Talker.php A short story http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Davide-Trame-Poems.php Poetry by David Trame http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Unlike-the-Burbs.php A short-short story by Daniel Pearlman http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Vietnam-Napalm-Pulitzer-Photograph.php The Story of Phan Thi Kim Phuc http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Wrens.php Short story http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/new-day-anonymous-poetry.php Three Poems http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Perceptions-of-Terrorism.php The September 11th attacks were a tragedy that affected most Americans. It put terrorism on the national stage as a hot button issue. However, it also put a face on terrorism: one of Middle Eastern descent that practices Islam. It is important to remember that history has a way of repeating itself and as America is still trying to mend it's race relations, it should be wary of adding more negative stereotypes into its repertoire. It is time for policy makers to look at their definition of terrorism, blindly. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Morality-in-Medieval-Economics.php A study on usury http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/power-and-politics.php What is power in politics? http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/george-kennan-long-telegram.php The Cold War Politics http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/China-Power-Assertiveness.php China and U.S. relations in 2010 http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Israel-US-and-Iran-hope-for-no-military-surprises.php The situation grows less predictable, and thus more volatile, by the day. It would not take much to spark a full-blown crisis, most probably unplanned. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/new-realism-in-the-relationships-between-Moscow-and-Washington.php Pragmatism in the relationships between Russia and the United States http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Separation-of-State-and-Business.php In regards in running our lives in a spiritual sense we rely on our “church”, in regards in running our lives in a civic sense we rely on our “state” and in regards in running our lives in a materialistic sense we rely on our “business”. Isn't it time for Business to mind its own and allow the State to govern? http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/peace-and-war.php Why Does The International Peace Sometimes Facilitate The Break Out of War? http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/New-Political-Realism-Chapter-One.php Providence, Environment, and Politics of Peace http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Fuel-Trends-Dominant-Fuels-Vaclav-Smil.php An excerpt from Global Catastrophes and Trends. The Next 50 Years. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Separation-of-Church-and-State.php Separation of Church and State? Well, the State has got to respect that as well. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Freedom-Genome-In-Roman-Empire.php The Freedom Genome in Ancient Rome http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Robert-Bryce-energy-interview.php An interview with the bestselling author and journalist Robert Bryce http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/oil-environment-future.php An Interview with J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Oil-future-and-past.php Oil and Politics http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Oil-and-Democracy.php Does Oil Hinder Democracy? http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Oil-as-a-weapon.php The oil weapon seems an implausible threat when the economic, geographic, and military attributes of prospective user and victim are considered. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-oil-spill-in-the-Gulf-of-Mexico-chronology.php The explosion of the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, owned by Transocean Ltd and leased by British Petroleum, exposed... http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/utopia-a-or-b.php Two visions for the future http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Question-of-Human-Nature.php Two visions for the future http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Addressing-Marx-claim-about-social-structure.php Two visions for the future http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Who-should-rule-Utopia.php Two visions for the future http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Urban-Planning.php Two visions for the future http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/crude-oil-awakening.php The Mineral Management Service and the consequences of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico http://themontrealreview.com/2009/Why-do-some-people-not-understand-Jacques-Ellul.php Daniel Bois on Jacques Ellul's book "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes" http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/James-Miller.php James Miller is a painter living in Montreal. Inspired by his love for the great masters such as Caravaggio and Delacroix he revisits classic themes and combine them with social commentary and criticism as viewed from a compassionate vegan, perhaps subversive perspective. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/wikileaks-new-media-and-journalism.php An interview with Lisa Lynch, a professor of journalism at Concordia University in Montreal http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/OIL-SPILL-IN-GULF-OF-MEXICO.php Politicians and oil companies resolved to continue offshore drilling. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Tocqueville-and-Marx.php This is a fictional dialog between Alex de Tocqueville and Karl Marx. It is set in a small Parisian café in the year 1844. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Economic-freedom-index-2010.php The Asian countries are on the top of the index. North America remains the biggest territory with free economy. The European economic freedom leader, Ireland, is with the highest budged gap for 2010 among the European countries. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/In-Defence-of-Perpetual-Peace.php Kant’s postulates of Perpetual Peace explained http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/A-Capitalist-World.php The character of modern capitalism http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Estranged-Labour-Today.php Today, Karl Marx's theory of estranged labour is still applicable. In this article, The Montreal Review explains the “estranged labour theory” with contemporary examples from China, Canada, and Silicon Valley. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Use-of-Violence.php Mike Mercer argues that violence never solves anything. Only the battle over people's hearts and minds matters. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Victor-Klemperer-diary.php Some thoughts invoked by the reading of Victor Klemperer's diary http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Betterment-Party-of-Canada.php The Betterment Party is a fiction, but it is also a vision for a better Canada. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Tocqueville-Discovery-of-America.php In "Tocqueville's Discovery of America" Leo Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, explores the life of the great French aristocrat who wrote the classic in political genre "Democracy in America." http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Democracy-in-America.php Is the state an enemy of individual liberty? http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Support-the-deserters-not-the-troops.php A response to “The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - imperial project or security effort?”(The Montreal Review, January 2010) http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Populism-of-Evil.php Nazis' propaganda as a handbook for achieving political power. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-origins-of-the-Second-World-War.php A review of A.J. P. Taylor's book “The Origins of the Second World War” http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Augustus.php The goal of this article is not to give a comprehensive account of the factual transformation of the Roman Republic during the regime of Augustus. There are numerous brilliant works dealing in detail with the events in Agustus' time. Here the reviewer just wants to invoke attention on the fact that this transformation was an unusual political process in which the old political facade stays only to cover the building of a new order. This is a political principle, which can be used as a possible base when we observe and judge the contemporary political events. The principle can be generalized in the following: The unconscious political process, the creation of a spontaneous institutional order without particular human design and plan, tends to keep the frame of the old institutional structures alive while under the surface the real political change happens. In such a transformation, the political consensus is often present and the manifestation of the actual revolutionary change is subtle. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-political-change-in-democracy-and-totalitarianism.php Totalitarianism cannot experience reform without the risk of collapse, whereas the democracy, if it is a real democracy, cannot experience revolution... http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/amel-chamandy.php Amel Chamandy: One of the fortunate things about the way I was raised was that I was taught the importance to be well rounded. I am an artist first; my decision to go into the art business was because I wanted to have a way to remain creative. My creativity can be injected into every project I undertake and reflected in a way that is appealing, which feeds back into the way I run my business... http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/future-of-humankind.php Prophets are always passionate. From Isaiah to Marx we see ethics and morality blended with reasoning and judgements. Prophets are not scientists, even not thinkers. Rather they are oracles of Divine. They want your soul, not your brain. They deal with mystics, they can argue that their words are scientific, knowledgeable, but their goal is to demolish the edifice of the “normal,” the cathedral of the generally accepted truth. If you want to demolish the traditional narratives, you cannot speak the language of science that often is nothing but dogma. If you want to break down the universe, you cannot do it with the instruments of tradition. The effective critique is possible only when you sincerely abandon the wisdom of the present day, the wisdom of your contemporaries. Rousseau's aim is to demolish the illusions of modern man and his beloved “civilization”...