Rick Salutin

Rick Salutin: I protested at Columbia in 1968 and today’s campus protests give me hope

The rub with trying to cure loneliness is that it’s like seeking happiness. It doesn’t seem to work if you head straight for it. But if you go for something

My point is not that the West is evil but that it’s a scuzzy mix, like all great powers. Out there in reality, as opposed to the gauzy realms of

So the trouble with Trump isn’t his ideas, they’re often plausible; it’s that he doesn’t intend to do anything with them except get elected.

I don’t think President Biden had a bad night during he debate with Donald Trump. I thought he had an excellent night, for him.

For athletes, winning is central. They have to win or, more realistically, be motivated by the need to. You can’t just treat it as a great, well-paid job. If you

It’s part of the ideology of the Strong Leader. This feature belonged pre-eminently to the 1920s and '30s and the rise of fascism. Nothing embodied the irresistibility of the Fuhrer

Rogers may be the most hated entity in Canada, as railways and banks once were on the Prairies, or phone monopolies in the old days.

Republicans under Trump have managed to denounce the neo-liberal package they first begat, the Democrats never did. Even a mea culpa, a "sorry, we got that wrong," would’ve helped.

Death existed before modern medicine, and it had to be dealt with in existential and spiritual ways as well as practically.