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What's the diplomatic thing to say when the U.S. president insults your predecessor, your close colleague and many others, to boot? In his Devil’s Dictionary, 19th-century American writer Ambrose Bierce defined diplomacy as the “patriotic art of lying for one’s country.”
The Conservatives are said to be having trouble pivoting away from the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel fun of campaigning against Justin Trudeau to the more difficult challenge of beating Mark Carney, who may not be a natural politician but who is a person of substance and achievement. I’ve never run an election campaign so maybe this is all more complicated than it seems...
In the New Testament, St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians is now less famous for its doctrinal direction to disputing Christian factions in the Greek city of Corinth than for the famous phrase “for now we see through a glass, darkly.” Seeing through a glass darkly is what political commentators have been trying to do since the voters of...