Alan Sears

A lament for the loss of the language of socialism spurs a tribute to the other languages of freedom.

Is it possible to separate the pleasures of pro sports from a masculinity that is rooted in the degradation of women and queer people?

Entrepreneurship holds no answers for the problems faced by young people today.

What if instead of Scrooge, the ghosts of past, present, and future haunted his exploited clerk Bob Cratchit?

Will you be my comrade? On comradeship and the relationships that sustain, nurture, and inform activism.

Generational justice will be key to any escape from the sinkhole of 3 decades of neoliberalism.

Last year, Ryerson University, where I teach, won a Passion Capitalist Award. When I first saw this posted on the university website, I thought the Ryerson public relations machine might be dabbling in satire. Sadly, this was real.

The fitness industry and the obesity panic are two sides of the same coin, both signs of a serious contempt for the body – at least in its natural state.

I know it sounds desperate, but a hallucination or two might open up his mind a bit. Perhaps he’ll realize that he who plays good cop forges his own hand cuffs.

The Conservatives won a majority in the recent federal election with a very simple core message. On the basis of their economic agenda and tough-on-crime program, Stephen Harper presented his party as the safe choice in difficult times.