Embedded With the Taliban

The significance of a glimpse of the enemy in war should not be underestimated. Nor should it be exaggerated. LoR’s Mark Taylor reviewed Norwegian journalist Pål Refsdal’s short film Taliban: Behind the Masks for DOX, the European documentary film magazine. For a hundred years, through war after war, journalism, literature and film have repeatedly reached…

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Going South

Most observers are predicting Canada’s newly elected majority Conservative government to move quickly within its first 100 days to pass a package of tough-on-crime legislation. New sentencing laws, a crack-down on young offenders and organized drug crimes, even internet surveillance legislation. The Tories will also likely junk the long-gun registry, despite ample evidence that police…

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