Ian Brown is a columnist with The Globe and Mail. He is the author The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for his Disabled Son, short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.
I’m glad I never had to decide whether my strange, lonely boy ought to exist
New prenatal tests can check fetal DNA for everything from gender to serious medical conditions. But as the father of one disabled son asks, who has the right to decide which life isn’t worth living?
Cloudy, with a chance of Armageddon
Harold Camping got it wrong, but tempests of biblical proportions have even the secular-minded rapt of late, writes
Brian Jungen on art and Canadian politics
Sculptor Brian Jungen sheds light on the realities of art and politics in the days after the federal election
Trysts and turns: Hearts overwhelm heads in love
The upstart Jew and his lusty Lady! It was a drama written by the Devil of stereotypes.
Gulf oil spill runs a pipeline to our collective unconscious
We ought to remember the oil sands in our own backyard. Let's hope they don't spring a leak.
They're called sneakers, but they're no escape
Did you know there are entire magazines dedicated to showcasing sneakers as works of art?
A hero who will be whatever you want him to be
The new Robin Hood movie is packed with historical inaccuracies, improbable romances and boilerplate bombast. I enjoyed every minute of it.
Treat Goldman Sachs like O.J.?
Now that's something worth considering
A phone is not a just phone when it’s a new iPhone
Too much German beer leads a viral Web frenzy
What’s black and white and not allowed to be read all over
Access to information? Not so much
