Hereditary empires and the struggle with modernity
PAT MURPHY: Hereditary dynasties could not survive the industrial revolution. Well, except for one
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Category: Books
Are we seeing the destruction of democratic capitalism?
LEE HARDING: More than 100 years after H.G. Wells forecast dramatic changes in the world order, the tide appears to be turning
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How empires grab and hold on to power
BOOKS: Being recognized as divinely anointed was hugely advantageous. While it didn’t guarantee acquiescence, it was still a formidable asset
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Catholic Ireland’s conflicted interest in the monarchy
PAT MURPHY: Dublin cinemas originally planned to screen a film of the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth but dropped the idea after receiving bomb threats
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How to maximize the meaning in our lives
GERRY CHIDIAC: Jewish psychiatrist and Auschwitz prisoner Viktor Frankl believed that there’s nothing more significant than living with meaning
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War and brutality go hand in hand
PAT MURPHY: By its very nature, the ferocity of sustained combat is conducive to behaviours that would be deemed shocking in normal life
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New cookbook boosts protein diet to help people beat cancer
HEALTH: Researchers serve up recipes based on evidence that high protein diets maintain muscle during treatment
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Wheat makes the world go round
PAT MURPHY/BOOKS: Wheat is one of the world’s staple crops, and Ukraine and Russia are top exporters. And some countries are vulnerable to supply disruptions
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A love letter from Canadian LGBQT artist to the Queen
OWEN GRANT INNES: She first led me to the intersection of the many roads that one can walk down in a bigger world with room for us all
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The last children of Anglo-Saxon England
BOOK REVIEW: For the upper class of England, the Norman conquest was wipe out time
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Is there power in positive thinking?
LIFE: The idea that you can think your way to financial success is a staple of both business books and the self-help movement
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Why has Canadian citizenship become an oxymoron?
KEN COATES: The country may be falling apart
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