Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Linda McQuaig, with a forward by Noam Chomsky (Toronto: Doubleday, 2004). Review by Ron Dart. "With a keen eye and grim wit, McQuaig’s perceptive inquiry into the world’s energy system strips away layer after layer of deceit, cynicism, racism, sordid...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
(Nashville, TN:W Publishing Group, 2004). Not long ago, sociologist-activist-author Tony Campolo survived a serious stroke. In the aftermath, he emerged with new sense of prophetic urgency. The subtitle of his new book summarizes his redoubled mission this way: “The...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Noam Chomsky (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004). Review by Ron Dart. “Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty, and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.”—The New York Times “Chomsky…is a major scholarly...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Robin Mathews (Vancouver: Northland Publications, 2004). Review by Ron Dart. “I’m not saying Robin Mathews is nearly as good as he’s going to be. But he’s so far ahead of the ruck, right now, that if he wanted to look back at them, he’d have to use binoculars.”...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Kevin Miller, Book Reviews
(By Greg Wright, Burien, WA: Hollywood Jesus Books, 2004). Review by Kevin Miller. Anyone who has visited www.hollywoodjesus.com over the last several years will be more than familiar with the name and smiling visage of Greg Wright. Not only does he serve as Senior...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
By Katherine Morrison (Toronto: Second Story Press, 2003). Review by Ron Dart. The ongoing and ever ripe debate about the meaning and significance of the Canadian identity, often and inevitably so, turns to the discussion and dialogue about Canadians and Americans....
