There are moments in a nation’s story when a single leader bends the arc of its history toward a new destination. In Canada, no figure accomplished this more sweepingly or more deliberately than Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Agree with him or despise his legacy, and I remain firmly in the latter camp, Trudeau was not merely a prime minister. He was a founder. He took a country with deep British institutional roots, a Westminster state shaped by inherited constitutional tradition, civic restraint, common law sensibilities, and a political culture that still thought of itself, quietly but undeniably, as part of the wider Anglosphere, and he transformed it into something wholly different. Read More

It’s taken less than a year for a sense of chaos and confusion to descend upon Donald Trump’s second spin in the White House — at least in his home base in Washington, D.C. Read More