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Bookshelf: The Orenda

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When meeting with Canadian officials over land claims in the 1990s, a Gitksan elder asked, “If this is your land, where are your stories?” It’s a reasonable question—don’t the stories we tell about a place, in part, create a place? It’s doubtful that the elder had been reading Benedict Anderson; … Read More

The Online Black Market, the Folly of the F-35, and Putting a Dollar Amount on Life

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Escaping the Recession by Boat – Outside “The Kleeman brothers are classic examples of a timeless urge: to do something very different with your life—now, not years from now, even if doing so requires walking away from ordinary comforts and charting a radical, potentially dangerous new course. They’re middle-class Midwesterners … Read More

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