Hoover and Bennett

 

 R. B. Bennett and Herbert Hoover: both in power during the worst of the Depression, and both refused to give significant help to the unemployed. In the US, men who’d fought in ww1 at least had serious leverage; a “bonus” promised to them for their service.

More: https://youtube.com/shorts/oY7DvHgS_cQ?feature=share

덕수궁

 덕수궁/ Doksuggung

 

AI and literature

 

How can literature AI-proof itself?

https://youtu.be/aUJ9wr0C3os

Trump vs. NATO

 

Trump and his insults against NATO soldiers. What should other countries do in response? 

#trump #nato

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Carney at Davos

 

Mark Carney and the end of the “rules based order” that benefits big nations. What will replace it?

CanLit and geopolitics

 

 

Canadian publishing produces very few works of fiction about the gritty, brutal world of bare knuckles geopolitics. The result is a somewhat limited sense of national self; we’re perceived as a nice country, but also a naive one. Can Canadian fiction improve in this regard?

Sapporo

 

Sapporo winter