Articles in Essay


April 2010

Healthy Competition?

The Canada/US rivalry stymies health care reform


March 2010

Star-Crossed

Science fiction contains worlds of wonder, but without love it’s lonely in space


January 2010

What Thunder Bay Burned

And how Lady Chatterley wrote our obscenity law


November 2009

Between the Sheets

Why you should resist the lure of book clubs


September 2007

Telling All WalrusPrime Article

The phenomenon of the male public apology hides the truth about men, shame, and silence


April 2006

Caught in Time’s Current WalrusPrime Article

Our human quarrel with the clock


March 2006

The Angel of Now

A meditation on the nature of time and a visit from an owl


January 2006

America the Beautiful

My first memory of America is driving through the Black Hills of South Dakota on a hot August day in a black Chevrolet Corvair without air conditioning...


February 2005


October 2004

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The Autobiography of an Idea
The Autobiography of an Idea
by Rick Salutin | DECEMBER 2007
Rethinking the Holocaust in light of 9/11, my mentor, and my dad. NMA Silver Medal: Personal Journalism; NMA Nominee: Essays

Old Hands on Deck
Old Hands on Deck
by Hugh Graham | JUNE 2006
Could the United States’ Arabists provide an exit strategy from Iraq?