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Opinion: Ode to the Hockey Night in Canada of my youth
We would slump around the 15-inch black-and-white TV at Dave's house. It smelled of musty basement, body odour and cheap aftershave. Author of the article: • Special to the Montreal Gazette • • Danny Gallivan, left, and Dick Irvin in the broadcast booth at the Forum in the 1970s. Their description of the action was almost Shakespearean, where a broken pass became "a larcenous steal,” writes Paul J. Starr.
Proportional Representation Gets a New Look
Proportional Representation Gets a New Look Published July 26, 2026 Two developments over the past year have elevated the importance of election reform. The gerrymandering war initiated by Donald Trump and the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Voting Rights Act have raised doubts about old strategies for fair redistricting maps and minority political representation.
The Life and Times of Zeda Max – Part 3
Zeda Max did not take well to retirement. In the summer, he would work in his garden, planting flowers, shrubs and vegetables. All summer long he would pull out weeds, check for parasites and water the plants. In the fall, he would harvest the vegetables and cover some of the small shrubs and trees with burlap bags. In the winter, he made pickles that were truly awful and wine that we would attempt to use for Passover, but was basically undrinkable.
The Life and Times of Zeda Max – Part 2
When I was a young boy, I often stayed over at my grandparents’ home, a small bungalow located in an unnamed area of Montréal next to the Town of Mount Royal. The house had three bedrooms, but just one bathroom that always smelled of Noxzema Face Cream. My Uncle Nat, my mother’s youngest brother, had once lived there, but he had married and moved out several years before. When I slept over, it was in Uncle Nat’s old room.
The Life and Times of Zeda Max – Part 1
My Zeda Max was, at least to me, always old. He was almost bald, with tufts of gray hair in random patches on his head and sprouting out of his ears and nose. He wore glasses with thick lenses that made his eyes seem dark and evil.
A Holocaust-Era Heroine for the Ages in ‘The Goddess of Warsaw’
In my early 20’s, I read “Mila 18,” a novel by the late, great Leon Uris. The story is set in German-occupied Poland during World War II. It’s a novel of historic fiction that uses fictional characters to recount the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It was one of those rare novels that would remain in my conscious for many years. My mother and her family lived in a small village on the bank of the Dniester River.
What Trump Really Meant? Make America White Again!
Thank you to everyone who tuned into this video live! In this bonus episode, recorded yesterday as a Substack Live, Princeton sociologist Paul Starr and I discuss his new article in The American Prospect, “Stephen Miller’s Impossible America:The ethnonationalist strategy for white replenishment won’t work” (May 26, 2026).
How to Love a Loser, Vol. 1
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My Broken Heart
This is a story about the most challenging ordeal that I have ever had to endure. Last spring I had bypass surgery to replace blocked arteries in my heart. The operation was complicated and according to the post-surgery report, my heart went into v-fib arrest and I had to be shocked back to life. To my own generation, I write this story as a shared experience. After a long recovery, my chest pains and shortness of breath went away. I can go for long walks and hikes without getting tired.
The American Prospect
Skip to content Home / Archives for Paul Starr Posted inEconomic Policy America used to be a pioneer in democratizing culture. Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power Trump’s attack on Jimmy Kimmel helps spotlight an even bigger problem. Posted inBooks Two different accounts from two of the Prospect’s co-founders Posted inPolitics American history offers three general strategies of repair and renewal. Posted inEducation in America There isn’t a legitimate public purpose.
Sleepwalking Into Revenge: The Rise of the Politics of Retribution
Generate Key Takeaways The air is thick with talk of revenge, and it’s not limited to Donald Trump’s personal vendetta against individual enemies like James Comey, Letitia James, and John Bolton. In 2023, when Trump proclaimed to a conservative audience, “I am your retribution,” he said that it would be “for those who have been wronged and betrayed,” no small group in Trump’s mind.
The Premature Guide To Post-Trump Reform
The Premature Guide To Post-Trump Reform Published August 3, 2025 A version of this article appears in the August 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Donald Trump is teaching us about the limitations of America’s constitutional system. We may have believed that the Constitution’s separation of powers, checks and balances, and guarantees of rights would protect us from a president with authoritarian and corrupt ambitions. But the framework we have counted on is failing.
Zera Café - Food with a Purpose
When I shifted gears into full retirement mode last spring, after four years of part-time consulting work, Tuesdays became my favorite day of the week. Oh I still love celebrating Shabbat dinners with my family and spending quality time with my two young grandsons, and I still enjoy working on my Sunday morning radio show when I share my collection of music from the 1950’s and 60’s with listeners from around the globe. But Tuesday mornings from 9:00 to 12:30 have become very special for me.
Zera Café - Food with a Purpose
When I shifted gears into full retirement mode last spring, after four years of part-time consulting work, Tuesdays became my favorite day of the week. Oh I still love celebrating Shabbat dinners with my family and spending quality time with my two young grandsons, and I still enjoy working on my Sunday morning radio show when I share my collection of music from the 1950’s and 60’s with listeners from around the globe. But Tuesday mornings from 9:00 to 12:30 have become very special for me.
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The Jews of Morocco
Morocco is an enigma. A beautiful country of deserts, mountains and beaches, it is located on the northwestern coast of Africa bordered by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Alawi dynasty, which rules the country to this day, took power in 1631, and over the next two centuries expanded diplomatic and commercial relations with the Western world. In 1912, France and Spain conquered and divided the country into respective colonies.
A Visit Back to the Borscht Belt
During a few summers in the early 1960’s, my family and I would spend a fun-filled week at an all-inclusive resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York. My mom would pack our suitcases with items ranging from bathing suits to formal wear and everything in between. We loaded up my dad’s Mercury Monterey convertible and we drove the seven-hour long journey from Montreal along the Northway toward the town of Ellenville, New York. Just a mile or two before Ellenville was the beautiful Nevele resort.
Latest China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Hong Kong Arbitration Centre (“CIETAC Hong Kong”) Statistics
Since 1 January 2015, CIETAC Hong Kong has offered parties the opportunity for Hong Kong seated arbitrations, within the framework of Hong Kong’s Arbitration Ordinance (Cap. 609), to be administered under the CIETAC Arbitration Rules.
Now In Force. Updated HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules (2024).
The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) new 2024 Administered Arbitration Rules (2024 Rules) came into force on 1 June 2024. The 2024 Rules aim to enhance efficiency, flexibility and innovation in HKIAC arbitration. The amendments largely build on, rather than alter, the previous 2018 Rules. In this article, we set out the most significant amendments, with practical insights on what the 2024 Rules will mean for practitioners and arbitration users.
When is On-Demand not On-Demand?
Introduction Since the decision in Edward Owen Engineering Ltd. v Barclays Bank International Ltd. and Another [1] was handed down in 1978, practitioners and those in the construction industry have appreciated that an on-demand bond was payable immediately upon the presentation of a valid demand to the bondsman unless there was clear evidence of fraud. Justice Morison in Cargill International S.A. v.
Challenge to “Letters of No Consent” regime laid to rest by the Court of Final Appeal
In the case Tam Sze Leung v Commissioner of Police [1], the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (“CFA”) unanimously upheld the “Letters of No Consent” (“LNC”) regime, as operated by the police under the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance (Cap. 455) (“OSCO”).
TAP: The American Prospect
That depends on whether organizing and unity are a match for two incumbents in the pocket of business and one embittered ex-governor.
De nuevo Trump vs. Biden: ¿por qué no hay alternativa?
Pero ante el hecho de que las únicas opciones que parecen viables en estos momentos sean el presidente más viejo de la historia –que cada vez muestra más los signos de la edad– o un contrincante –también viejo y también blanco– que tiene más causas penales pendientes que ningún otro candidato de la historia del país, surge la gran pregunta: ¿es que ninguno de los dos grandes partidos estadounidenses tiene más candidatos que puedan energizar las bases y ganar unas elecciones?
How Much Right-Wing State Government Costs Us -- In Human Life
Conservatives often argue against proposals for public remedy on grounds of futility. Public remedy will be ineffectual, they say, because the problems it is meant to fix arise from intractable social conditions or human nature. When the new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson recently responded to demands for gun regulation after a mass shooting by saying that “at the end of the day” the true problem is not guns but the “human heart,” he was making the futility argument.
The Life-and-Death Cost of Conservative Power
The Life-and-Death Cost of Conservative Power Published December 9, 2023 Conservatives often argue against proposals for public remedy on grounds of futility. Public remedy will be ineffectual, they say, because the problems it is meant to fix arise from intractable social conditions or human nature.
The Life-and-Death Cost of Conservative Power
This article appears in the December 2023 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Conservatives often argue against proposals for public remedy on grounds of futility. Public remedy will be ineffectual, they say, because the problems it is meant to fix arise from intractable social conditions or human nature.
Opinion: A message of peace and hope from a 'Jewish Santa'
Montreal has long been a cultural mosaic. Let's not allow wars, politics and prejudices that tear apart societies spill into ours. Author of the article: • Special to Montreal Gazette • Article content A few years ago I worked in the office of a company in Montreal where a large percentage of my fellow employees were immigrants or children of immigrants. Together we accounted for a diverse collection of different nationalities, cultures, languages and religions.
一带一路实用指南：如何取回您的金钱？香港资产保全概况
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Belt and Road Practical Guide: How to Get Your Money Back? Asset Preservation in Hong Kong
Find out more about Lexology or get in touch by visiting our About page. Register To view this article you need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader. If you can't read this PDF, you can view its text here. Go back to the PDF . China, Global, Hong Kong September 12 2023 B E L T A N D R O A D PRACTICAL GUIDE HOW TO GET YOUR MONEY BACK?
一带一路实用指南：一带一路仲裁资助
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Belt and Road Practical Guide: How to Resolve Disputes on the Belt and Road
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一带一路实用指南：如何有效地解决一带一路争议
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Belt and Road Practical Guide: Arbitration Finance along the Belt and Road
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Five Top Tips to Consider When Drafting an Arbitration Clause | IFC Review
Confidentiality: Companies and commercial institutions are very often reluctant to disclose the commercial information underpinning their disputes, which may involve trade secrets, internal decision-making process, and competitive practices. Court litigation will often be open to the public and press, and certain documents filed with courts may also be inspected; whereas in normal circumstances arbitral proceedings are private and kept confidential.
Real Life Problems: Hoarding
Long after my father died and my sister and I moved out, my mother continued to hang on to our split-level three bedroom home in suburban Montréal. I often thought that she could have bought a little more time on earth had she sold the home and rented a single floor apartment. There were six steps leading from her bedroom to the kitchen and another 16 steps to get down to the basement where the washer and dryer were installed.
A Dog's Journey Through Nazi Germany — From His Four-Legged Perspective
An L.A. Couple is Married. The Wedding Guests? Two Hundred Children. I love weddings. Two weeks ago, I received word about a special wedding that was planned at an unlikely venue: a local Jewish school. The Day Nachshon Swallowed the Dot I love the Yiddish expression “Be a Nachshon.” In our fractured world, we need his kind of moral courage now more than ever. Satirical Semite: Useless Information The world of education has changed with the advent of ChatGPT.
Showing Both Sides of Modern India in 'Honor'
India: a growing democratic nation with rich culture, contemporary architecture, beautiful estates, modern hotels, a thriving economy and a highly skilled labor force — or — India: a backward, misogynistic country with a still existent caste system, plagued by poverty, pollution, and religious differences. This is the enigma that readers will encounter when reading “Honor,” the most recent novel by best-selling author Thrity Umrigar. Protagonist Smita is a 34-year-old journalist, born in Mumbai.
Montreal Jews Lived Their Exodus
Well here we are after two Seders, stuffed to the gills, exhausted from schlepping the chairs, cooking the meals and setting the table, broke from the high cost of kosher brisket and turkey, and constipated from eating too much matzah. Unfortunately, many of us in Montréal encountered another challenge for this year’s Pesach celebrations.
The penultimate instalment in the “admissibility or jurisdiction debate” in Hong Kong: permission to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal granted in C v D
The case of C v D concerns the issue of whether or not an arbitral tribunal’s decision with respect to compliance with a pre-arbitral tier in a multi-tiered dispute resolution clause is final. The issue is significant and goes to the heart of one of the key advantages of arbitration: finality of a tribunal’s decisions. The case has gone through the Hong Kong courts for some years now.
How The Midterm Elections Unleashed The Supreme Court's Radical Majority
The Democrats beat both the historical odds and the pundits’ expectations in the midterm elections. But when the dust settles, it’s likely that only one national institution—the Supreme Court—will have unobstructed power for the next two years, and the question will be how the six Republicans who control the Court decide to use their power. Before the election, many Democrats were resigned to the loss of Congress as an unavoidable repeat of a well-established midterm pattern.
Sam Bankman-Fried: A Common Crook
What has almost gotten lost in the Sam Bankman-Fried saga is that the former billionaire’s scam was a fundamental violation of the securities laws—using customer funds to place his own bets. His personal control of both the exchange FTX, and his investment company, Alameda, and the comingling of their funds, puts Bankman-Fried right up there with Ponzi and Madoff as common crooks and outright felons. Bankman-Fried’s disgrace will have some salutary side effects.
Gangsterism in the Shmatte Business
When I first started reading “Button Man” by Andrew Gross, a historical novel loosely based on the life story of Gross’s grandfather, I couldn’t help but think of my own father. The first few chapters tell us about the humble beginnings of the Rabishevsky family. Immigrants from the town of Minsk, the Rabishevsky’s settled in an impoverished area of Brooklyn. The youngest son, Morris, witnesses the death of his father at the age of twelve.
Review: Two Books on the Recent History of Polarization
SOURCE: The American Prospect 8/4/2022 Historians in the News tags: Republican Party, Michael Kazin, political history, polarization, Democratic Party by Paul Starr Paul Starr is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University.
Opinion: Time to nationalize Canadian telecom
This is an essential service that affects the lives of every citizen and should provide the best quality at a reasonable cost. Author of the article: • Special to Montreal Gazette Article content Two recent events have put the focus on Canada’s telecommunication industry. One is the current spate of advertisements begging citizens to oppose government approval to a proposed buyout of Shaw Communications by Rogers.
America the Beautiful, Where Have You Gone?
As an adolescent I loved everything American. I listened to American Rock and Roll; Elvis, Dion, Buddy Holly, Neil Sedaka and Leslie Gore. I loved the Motown music by the Four Tops, The Temptations, The Supremes and Mary Wells. The best movies came from the U.S.A. Think of “Casablanca”, “Rebel Without a Cause”, “Twelve Angry Men”, “The Ten Commandments”, or “Blackboard Jungle”. I grew up watching American TV.
Conservatives hope to turn back the cultural clock. Can they succeed?
Paul Starr is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, founding co-editor of the American Prospect, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Retrofuturism is a term for imaginative works that envision a future out of the past. It seems an apt way to think about the future of American law and its relation to American culture.
Shonda on a Honda - The Helen Geller Story
Almost everyone knows those actors of the 1950’s and 60’s who rose to fame and fortune on Broadway, on the silver screen and on network television. Marilyn Monroe, Ethel Merman, Elizabeth Taylor, Doris Day, Lucille Ball, and Carol Burnett just to list a few, became household names to millions of Americans. Their lives, open to public scrutiny, were often punctuated with rocky marriages, substance abuse, and in some cases, suicide.
Lebanese Jew Reached Out to Arafat to Protect Synagogue
A little over twenty years ago, I met a rather amazing gentleman. My sister-in-law was recently engaged to a young Lebanese lawyer, and his parents were kind enough to invite me for the Sabbath dinner. Maître Selim Moghrabi (Maître is a commonly used honorific for lawyers in Québec), recited the Kiddush over the wine and then proceeded to tell me about his flight from Beirut during the Lebanese civil war in 1975.
Jackie Mason and Me
Jackie Mason pictured during a visit to London on 18th April 1963. (Photo by Asher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The year was 1963. I was ten years old and my sister, Jody, was eight. We would visit my grandmother’s apartment, which she gratefully shared with my Auntie Raye, my Auntie Gertie and her husband, Uncle Jack.
The Disinformation Age
You have access Access Open access Cited by 39 Innes, Martin Innes, Helen Roberts, Colin Harmston, Darren and Grinnell, Daniel 2021. The normalisation and domestication of digital disinformation: on the alignment and consequences of far-right and Russian State (dis)information operations and campaigns in Europe. Journal of Cyber Policy, Vol. 6, Issue. 1, p. 31. CrossRef Google Scholar Bontridder, Noémi and Poullet, Yves 2021. The role of artificial intelligence in disinformation. Data & Policy, Vol.
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