It could seem superfluous to bring together in one place a diverse body of writings produced over more than thirty-five years--among them scholarly studies, sometimes unfashionably earnest in tone and focussed on centuries-old texts, and political books and essays prompted by moments of crisis or crimes of state some of which are now well over a decade in the past. Or might there be reasons to hope such a collection could be of interest?
Since some of my writings on Renaissance literature, early modern philosophy, and literary and textual theory continue to be cited more than a quarter-century after their first publication, specialists may find their reappearance here, together with lesser-known or previously unpublished texts on similar subjects, of some use.
The receptions of my political essays have tended to be more ephemeral--consisting of an initial flurry of citations, online reproductions in several, or in some cases twenty or more websites, and occasional translations into other languages; and then, if anything, a further trickle of alternative-media and scholarly mentions. But even apparently forgotten texts may be of continued relevance for their treatment of issues that are still urgent, political wounds that remain unhealed, and struggles that have become, if anything, more intense than before.
The ethical issues raised by the occupations of Palestine and of Haiti have not been eased by any retreat on the oppressors' part from the violence and effective enslavement they inflict upon their victims, or by any signs on the part of Western governments of a new-found willingness to act in conformity with international law; and supporters of the state of Israel's policies of colonization and apartheid have stepped up their campaigns of slander and 'lawfare' against activists who call for an end to what international law defines as crimes against humanity.
The chaos produced by post-9/11 Western aggressions against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa rages on with undiminished violence. And despite major setbacks in Syria to the US policy of deploying jihadi proxy armies against insufficiently submissive states, US aggressiveness in the Middle East shows no signs of abating.
Other issues which have preoccupied me have also remained current. Elections in the United States have become more spectacularly corrupt that ever before. And during the ten-year reign of Stephen Harper that corruption leaked northward into the Canadian electoral system--climaxing in the so-called 'robocalls' scandal of 2011, which exposed the weakness and corruption of Canada's regulatory and policing institutions, the incapacity of our courts, and the political immaturity of our mainstream media. (And since Harper's defeat in 2015, proposed reforms to make the Canadian electoral system more democratic have gone nowhere.) Faltering steps toward justice and restitution for First Nations people and toward a prevention of irreversible climate chaos are being countered by the greed and folly of energy corporations and governments. The mendacity of our political classes and of the corporate media have advanced to unprecedented levels; and neo-McCarthyist attempts to discredit and silence critical analyses of state crimes against democracy have intensified.
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In 1961, a decade before I entered the paths of reflection and interpretation that have resulted in the writings reproduced here, the Canadian poet Irving Layton remarked in the foreword to one of his books that "The Promethean idea of the twentieth century is that men, collectively, can control their own destiny." But Layton was neither a naive meliorist nor an admirer of the technologies or the powers of reason that could enable such control. In his view, "abolishing the law of historical development through strife and opposition" would entail sacrificing "the Dionysian element which is the beginning and assurance of all creativity" (The Swinging Flesh [Toronto, 1961], p. xiv). Two years later, in another foreword, he offered little hope for the fulfilment of any Promethean ideal: "Only in this century has the distinction between guilty and innocent been systematically wiped out, masses of people put to death for abstract, ideological reasons, and deceit and terror employed on so immense a scale as to reduce whole populations to terrified helots" (Balls for a One-Armed Juggler [Toronto, 1963], pp. xx-xxi).
In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a benefactor to humanity, whom he has freed from paralyzing fear by taking away the knowledge we had formerly possessed of the time and manner of our deaths. And as the bringer of fire (stolen from the hearth of the Olympian gods) to humankind, he is the agent who effectively initiated human culture and human history. In Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, he is the solitary victim of unendurable suffering imposed by the tyranny of Zeus, and yet holds within himself a counter-knowledge that can lead to that god's overthrow.
It is arguable that by the end of the twentieth century what Layton thought of as merely a "Promethean idea" of a collective control of human destiny had become--through medical advances, through technologies of birth control that could relieve population pressures as a source of human conflict, through scientific studies showing the desperate urgency of a shift away from a fossil fuel and carbon-based economy, and through the development of alternative-energy technologies that made such a shift conceivable--an actual possibility.
There is a large irony to this. For just as humanity approached this genuinely Promethean capacity, our social-political elites turned us firmly in the opposite direction, toward intensified class war, a Thatcherite-Reaganite return to pre-New Deal or indeed Victorian values, to the dogma (in Margaret Thatcher's words) that "there is no such thing as society," and to the lie that "there is no alternative" to the militarist aggressions and social austerities imposed by globalizing corporate capitalism.
Here is a further, much smaller irony. One might sum up the preceding paragraphs by saying that by the mid to late 1970s humanity was coming close--in an allegorical sense--to having its own "salvation" within its grasp, but that we have proved unable, for complex economic, socio-political, discursive and ideological reasons, to choose what was formally within our power to have. When during the late 70s I was working at the University of Sussex on my doctoral thesis on the origins of the legend of Doctor Faustus, and on the playwright Christopher Marlowe's version of that legend--in which the protagonist is damned for the simple reason that he is unable to will his own salvation, and unable to will it because he is in an obscure sense always already damned--it did not occur to me that I was writing in a displaced sense about my own historical moment.
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Imperial Aggressions and Consequences
Renaissance literature
“Perilous Venture: A Jew in the Medici Court.” Review of Edward Goldberg, Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011). Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 37.2 (2014): 171-73. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/perilous-venture-a-jew-in-the-medici-court.
“Antisemitism in Renaissance England: Marlowe's Jew of Malta.” Review of Mathew R. Martin, ed., The Jew of Malta. Christopher Marlowe (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2012). Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 36.3 (Summer 2013), 193-95. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/antisemitism-in-renaissance-england-marlowes-jew-of-malta.
“The A and B Texts of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus Reconsidered.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 100.2 (June 2006): 227-57. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/the-a-and-b-texts-of-marlowes-doctor-faustus-revisited.
“Playwright, brawler, lover, spy.” Review of Louise Welsh, Tamburlaine Must Die; and of David Riggs, The World of Christopher Marlowe. The Globe and Mail (19 March 2005). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/playwright-brawler-lover-spy.
“Ben Jonson's Skeptical Friend: Gorgias in the English Renaissance.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/ben-jonsons-skeptical-friend-gorgias-in-the-english-renaissance.
“'Fairer than the evening air': Marlowe’s Gnostic Helen of Troy and the Tropes of Belatedness and Historical Mediation.” In Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Alan Shepard and Stephen D. Powell. Toronto: CRRS, 2004. 39-62. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/fairer-than-the-evening-air-marlowes-gnostic-helen-of-troy-and-the-tropes-of-belatedness-and-historical-mediation.
“Rooke’s Hooker: Prolepsis, Natural Law, Decentring in Shakespeare’s Dog.” In White Gloves of the Doorman: The Works of Leon Rooke, ed. Branko Gorjup. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2004. 211-35. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/rookes-hooker-prolepsis-natural-law-decentring-in-shakespeares-dog.
“Text, Apparatus, History.” In Elizabethan Theatre XV, eds. A. Lynne Magnusson and C. E. McGee. Toronto: P. D. Meany, 2002. 128-54. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/text-apparatus-history.
“Forging Freedom: Critical Humanist Strategies Against Corporatism.” Munro Beattie Lecture, 1999-2000 (invited). Carleton University, 11 February 2000. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/forging-freedom-critical-humanist-strategies-of-resistance-to-corporatism-the-munro-beattie-lecture-1999-2000-carleton-university.
“Sir Philip Sidney’s Aesthetic of Delight.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, 22-25 October 1998. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/sidneys-aesthetic-of-delight.
“'Inter inextricabiles ... difficultatum tenebras': Ficino’s Pimander and the Gendering of Cartesian Subjectivity.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 22.1 (Winter 1998): 23-34. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/inter-inextricabiles-difficultatum-tenebras-ficinos-pimander-and-the-gendering-of-cartesian-subjectivity.
“Violence and Extremity: Nashe’s Unfortunate Traveller as an Anatomy of Abjection.” In Critical Approaches to English Prose Fiction 1520-1640, ed. Donald Beecher. Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1998. 183-218. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/violence-and-extremity-nashes-unfortunate-traveller-as-an-anatomy-of-abjection.
“Empson's Hard-Won Grace.” Review of William Empson, Essays on Renaissance Literature, Volume One: Donne and the New Philosophy. Ed. John Haffenden. Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 21.1 (Winter 1997): 65-67. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/empsons-hard-won-grace.
“Ponderous / Illuminating: Two New Editions of Marlowe's Edward II.” Review of Richard Rowland, ed., The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, Volume III: Edward II; and of Charles R. Forker, ed., Christopher Marlowe: Edward the Second. Marlowe Society of America Newsletter 15.2 (Winter 1996): 2-3. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/ponderous-illuminating-two-new-editions-of-marlowes-edward-ii.
“Making Sense of the Primary Source of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.” Review of John Henry Jones. ed. The English Faust Book: a critical edition based on the text of 1592. Essays in Theatre, 15.1 (November 1996): 108-110. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/making-sense-of-the-primary-source-of-marlowes-doctor-faustus.
“Shakespeare the American.” Review of Michael Bristol, Shakespeare's America, America's Shakespeare. English Studies in Canada 19.4 (December 1993): 497-500. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/shakespeare-the-american.
“Self-Image and Spectacle in Tamburlaine and Doctor Faustus.” In Spectacle et image dans l'Europe de la Renaissance, ed. André Lascombes. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993. 109-34. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/self-image-and-spectacle-in-tamburlaine-and-doctor-faustus.
“Bruno, Faustus, Hamlet.” Review of Hilary Gatti, The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge: Giordano Bruno in England. Sidney Newsletter & Journal 12.1 (1992): 55-56. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/bruno-faustus-hamlet.
“Webster's Great Tragedies.” Review of Christina Luckyj, A Winter’s Snake: Dramatic Form in the Tragedies of John Webster. University of Toronto Quarterly 61.1 (Fall 1991): 129-130. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/websters-great-tragedies.
“Agrippa.” In The Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A.C. Hamilton et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. 10-11. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/agrippa.
“Mars and the Carthaginians (Doctor Faustus, Prologue, line 2).” Cahiers Élizabéthains 38 (October 1990): 62-65. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/mars-and-the-carthaginians-doctor-faustus-prologue-line-2.
“Right Eye and Left Heel: Ideological Origins of the Legend of Faustus.” Mosaic 22.2 (Spring 1989): 79-94. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/right-eye-and-left-heel-ideological-origins-of-the-legend-of-faustus.
“Marlowe's 'Sick Elementals'.” Review of Clifford Leech, Christopher Marlowe: Poet for the Stage, ed. Anne Lancashire. University of Toronto Quarterly 58.1 (1988): 108-110. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/marlowes-sick-elementals.
“Accommodation and Synecdoche: Calvin’s God in King Lear.” Shakespeare Studies 20 (1988): 147-168. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/accommodation-and-synecdoche-calvins-god-in-king-lear.
“The First New A-Text Edition of Doctor Faustus.” Review of Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus: The A-Text, ed. David Ormerod and Christopher Wortham. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 86.3 (1987): 402-404. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/the-first-new-a-text-edition-of-doctor-faustus.
“Theorizing Shakespeare.” Review of Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, ed. Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman. University of Toronto Quarterly 57.1 (1987): 109-111. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/theorizing-shakespeare.
“History and the Canon: The Case of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.” University of Toronto Quarterly 56.4 (Summer 1987): 498-522. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/history-and-the-canon-the-case-of-marlowes-doctor-faustus.
“Thomas Vaughan, Henry More, and the Semiotics of Primal Matter.” Review of The Works of Thomas Vaughan, ed. Alan Rudrum. English Studies in Canada 12.1 (1986): 108-114. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/thomas-vaughan-henry-more-and-the-semiotics-of-primal-matter.
“Misreading Faustus Misreading: The Question of Context.” The Dalhousie Review 65.4 (Winter 1985-86): 511-533. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/misreading-faustus-misreading-the-question-of-context.
“Verbal Magic and the Problem of the A and B Texts of Doctor Faustus.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 82.3 (July 1983): 324-346. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/verbal-magic-and-the-problem-of-the-a-and-b-texts-of-doctor-faustus.
“Le Dieu de Calvin et le langage du destin et de la fortune dans la tragédie de la Renaissance française.” Revue de l'Université Sainte-Anne (1982): 8-18. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/le-dieu-de-calvin-et-le-langage-du-destin-et-de-la-fortune-dans-la-tragdie-de-la-renaissance-franaise.
“Formal Closure and Catharsis in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.” Revue de l'Université Sainte-Anne (1981): 12-15. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/formal-closure-and-catharsis-in-marlowes-doctor-faustus.
Early Modern Philosophy
“Cornelius Agrippa’s Double Presence in the Faustian Century.” In The Faustian Century: German Literature and Culture in the Age of Luther and Faustus, ed. Andrew Weeks and James Van der Laan. New York: Camden House, 2013, 67-91. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/cornelius-agrippas-double-presence-in-the-faustian-century.
“'Inter inextricabiles ... difficultatum tenebras': Ficino’s Pimander and the Gendering of Cartesian Subjectivity.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 22.1 (Winter 1998): 23-34. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/inter-inextricabiles-difficultatum-tenebras-ficinos-pimander-and-the-gendering-of-cartesian-subjectivity.
“Henricus Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig. 10 vols.; London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Vol. 1, 130-33. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/henricus-cornelius-agrippa-von-nettesheim.
“The Dreamer’s Path: Descartes and the Sixteenth Century.” Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996): 30-76. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/the-dreamers-path-descartes-and-the-sixteenth-century.
“Agrippa.” In The Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A.C. Hamilton et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. 10-11. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/agrippa.
“The World Turned Inside Out: Revolutions of the Infinite Sphere from Hermes to Pascal.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 24.4 (1988): 303-313. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/the-world-turned-inside-out-revolutions-of-the-infinite-sphere-from-hermes-to-pascal.
“Agrippa’s Dilemma: Hermetic ‘Rebirth’ and the Ambivalences of De vanitate and De occulta philosophia.” Renaissance Quarterly 41.4 (Winter 1988): 614-653. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/agrippas-dilemma-hermetic-rebirth-and-the-ambivalences-of-de-vanitate-and-de-occulta-philosophia.
“Misleading antilogiké: A Response to James Murray’s ‘Disputation, Deception and Dialectic (Phaedrus 261-266)’.” 16th Atlantic Philosophical Association Conference, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, 3-5 October 1985. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/misleading-antilogik-a-response-to-james-murrays-disputation-deception-and-dialectic-plato-on-the-true-rhetoric-phaedrus-261-266.
“Renaissance Philosophy: Lost Origins.” Invited paper, Phoenix Society (Department of Philosophy), Mount Allison University, 15 February 1985. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/renaissance-philosophy-lost-origins.
“Gorgias Redivivus: Sophistic Rhetoric and Propaganda.” 15th Atlantic Philosophical Association Conference, Acadia University, 26-28 October 1984. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/gorgias-redivivus-sophistic-rhetoric-and-propaganda.
Literary/Textual Theory
“The A and B Texts of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus Reconsidered.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 100.2 (June 2006): 227-57. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/the-a-and-b-texts-of-marlowes-doctor-faustus-revisited.
“Ruins of the Ogdoad: Northrop Frye's Notebooks on Renaissance Literature.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/ruins-of-the-ogdoad-northrop-fryes-notebooks-on-renaissance-literature.
“Text, Apparatus, History.” In Elizabethan Theatre XV, eds. A. Lynne Magnusson and C. E. McGee. Toronto: P. D. Meany, 2002. 128-54. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/text-apparatus-history.
“Blood for the Ghosts.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Conference. Brock University, 23-26 May 1996. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/blood-for-the-ghosts.
“The Function of English Studies at the Present Time.” Invited paper, Panel on English Studies at the End of the Millennium, in the Symposium Is There a Future for English Studies? York University, 1 February 1996. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/the-function-of-english-studies-at-the-present-time.
“Humanism, Theory, the Humanities: The (Dis)function of Criticism at the Present Time.” Invited paper, Calgary Humanities Institute Research Network on the Justification of the Humanities, University of Calgary, 10-11 March 1995. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/humanism-theory-the-humanities-the-disfunction-of-criticism-at-the-present-time.
“Raising the Dead.” Work-in-Progress Seminar, Department of English, University of Guelph, 10 November 1992. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/raising-the-dead-what-ghost-guestguessed-a-hermeneutics-of-necromancy.
“Ellis on Deconstruction: A Second Opinion.” English Studies in Canada 18.1 (March 1992): 83-103. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/ellis-on-deconstruction-a-second-opinion.
“Postmodernism.” Review of Stanley Fogel, The Postmodern University; John Fekete, ed., Life After Postmodernism; and Arthur Kroker and David Cook, The Postmodern Scene. Canadian Literature 120 (Spring 1989): 225-227. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/postmodernism.
“For and Against the Moon” [on Derrida]. English Studies in Canada 15.3 (September 1989): 305-318. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/for-and-against-the-moon.
“Accommodation and Synecdoche: Calvin’s God in King Lear.” Shakespeare Studies 20 (1988): 147-168. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/accommodation-and-synecdoche-calvins-god-in-king-lear.
“Theorizing Shakespeare.” Review of Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, ed. Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman. University of Toronto Quarterly 57.1 (1987): 109-111. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/theorizing-shakespeare.
“History and the Canon: The Case of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.” University of Toronto Quarterly 56.4 (Summer 1987): 498-522. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/history-and-the-canon-the-case-of-marlowes-doctor-faustus.
“Introduction,” Literature and Politics/Literary Politics. Special double issue of The Dalhousie Review 66.1-2 (Spring-Summer 1986): 5-13. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/introduction-to-literature-and-politicsliterary-politics-special-double-issue-of-the-dalhousie-review.
“Reinventing New Criticism?” Review of Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism, ed. Chaviva Hosek and Patricia Parker. University of Toronto Quarterly 56.1 (1986): 127-129. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/reinventing-new-criticism.
“Misreading Faustus Misreading: The Question of Context.” The Dalhousie Review 65.4 (Winter 1985-86): 511-533. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/misreading-faustus-misreading-the-question-of-context.
“Deconstruction and the Gnostics.” University of Toronto Quarterly 55.1 (1985): 74-93. http://www.utpjournals.metapress.com/content/b361p4117148r724/.
Contemporary culture
“Resisting McCarthyism: From the 'PC Wars' to the 'New Antisemitism'.” Canadian Sites of Resistance, ed. Weronika Suchacka, Hartmut Lutz, and Anna Krika. TransCanadiana: Polish Journal of Canadian Studies 8 (2016). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2016/10/21/9jno16s94cjfxh84gr7w7nzt5bcbdu.
“The Honouring: Kaha:wi Dance Theatre Performs at Chiefswood.” Two Row Times (18 June 2014). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/the-honouring-kahawi-dance-theatre-performs-at-chiefswood.
“Lawrence of Arabia and Mythmaking.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/lawrence-of-arabia-and-myth-making.
“Smear Tactics of the National Post: Correspondence with Paul Russell and Jonathan Kay, February 17-21, 2010.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/smear-tactics-of-the-national-post-correspondence-with-paul-russell-and-jonathan-kay-february-17-21-2010.
“Ehab Lotayef’s To Love a Palestinian Woman: Poems in English and Arabic.” The Canadian Charger (25 August 2010). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/ehab-lotayefs-to-love-a-palestinian-woman-poems-in-english-and-arabic.
“Don’t miss this train.” Review of Barry Callaghan, Between Trains. The Globe and Mail (2 June 2007). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/dont-miss-this-train.
“Just What We Needed: A Critic with ‘Duende’.” In Barry Callaghan: Essays on His Works, ed. Priscila Uppal. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2007. 363-66. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/just-what-we-needed-a-critic-with-duende.
“Barry Callaghan and the Invention of Cultural Studies.” In Barry Callaghan: Essays on His Works, ed. Priscila Uppal. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2007. 452-62. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/barry-callaghan-and-the-invention-of-cultural-studies.
“Time to Grow Up?” Review of Marcel Danesi, Forever Young: The ‘Teen-Aging’ of Modern Culture. University of Toronto Quarterly 74.1 (Winter 2004-05): 541-42. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/time-to-grow-up.
“Rooke’s Hooker: Prolepsis, Natural Law, Decentring in Shakespeare’s Dog.” In White Gloves of the Doorman: The Works of Leon Rooke, ed. Branko Gorjup. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2004. 211-35. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/10/rookes-hooker-prolepsis-natural-law-decentring-in-shakespeares-dog.
“Silenced Dissent: Four Short Texts on Israel/Palestine.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/silenced-dissent-four-short-texts-on-israelpalestine.
“Revolution Inc.” The Ontarion 134.13 (12 April-2 May 2001): 5. Revised text, http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/revolution-inc.
“Man of the Far Right.” Review of David Frum, What's Right: The New Conservatism and What It Means for Canada. Canadian Literature 156 (Spring1998): 131-33. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/hard-man-of-the-far-right.
“Manichaean Labelling.” Response to Joseph Knippenberg, “Cold Comfort U”: review of Lunar Perspectives, in Books in Canada 26 (February 1997). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/manichaean-labelling.
“Orange Groves and Drrradio Clásica: Home Thoughts from Andalusia” (December 1996). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/orange-groves-and-drrradio-clsica-home-thoughts-from-andalusia.
“Hot Button Academic Politics.” Review of Peter C. Emberley, Zero Tolerance: Hot Button Politics in Canada's Universities. The Toronto Star, 24 September 1996. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/hot-button-academic-politics.
Talk for Freedom to Read Week PEN Benefit: The Bookshelf, February 25, 1996.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/talk-for-freedom-to-read-week-pen-benefit-the-bookshelf-february-25-1996.
“The Function of English Studies at the Present Time.” Invited paper, Panel on English Studies at the End of the Millennium, in the Symposium Is There a Future for English Studies? York University, 1 February 1996. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/the-function-of-english-studies-at-the-present-time.
“John Fekete and Moral Panic.” Review of John Fekete, Moral Panic: Biopolitics Rising. English Studies in Canada 21.3 (September 1995): 347-353. Also available at http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/john-fekete-and-moral-panic.
“'PC' and Privatization.” Invited talk, Finding Our Way: Public Forum on Universities, Corporate Influence and the Future of Post-Secondary Education, University of Guelph, 22 October 1993. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/pc-and-privatization.
“'Political Correctness': An Annotated List of Readings.” Philosophy and Social Action 19.1-2 (January-June 1993): 85-109. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/political-correctness-an-annotated-list-of-readings.
“Political Correctness.” Canadian Federation for the Humanities Bulletin 14.2 (Summer 1991): 7-8. Also available at http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/political-correctness.
“Strong Shapes.” Review of Milton Acorn, I Shout Love and other poems, ed. James Deahl; The Northern Red Oak: Poems for and about Milton Acorn, ed. James Deahl; Henry Beissel, Poems New and Selected; and The Malahat Review 78 (March 1987): Special Issue on George Johnston. Canadian Literature 119 (Winter 1988): 136-138. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/11/strong-shapes.
Electoral Fraud
“Suppressing Our Knowledge of Vote Suppression.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (1 of 7), Rabble.ca (8 September 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-1-suppressing-our-knowledge-of-vote-suppression.
“The Dimensions of the 2011 Vote-Suppression Fraud.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (2 of 7), Rabble.ca (9 September 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-2-the-dimensions-of-the-2011-vote-suppression-fraud.
“Harperite Harassment Calls in the 2011 Election.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (3 of 7), Rabble.ca (24 September 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-3-harperite-harassment-calls-in-the-2011-election.
“Targeting (and Conservative Responsibility) in the 2011 Telephone Fraud.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (4 of 7), Rabble.ca (7 October 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-4-targeting-and-conservative-responsibility-in-the-2011-telephone-fraud.
“The 2011 Vote-Suppression Fraud: How They Got Away With It.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (5 of 7), Rabble.ca (13 October 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-5-the-2011-vote-suppression-fraud-how-they-got-away-with-it.
“Elections Canada Bungled its Investigation of Michael Sona and the Robocall Scandal.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (6 of 7), Rabble.ca (15 October 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-6-elections-canada-bungled-its-investigation-of-michael-sona-and-the-2011-robocall-scandal.
“After 2011 Vote-Suppression Fraud, Conservatives Remain Unrepentant.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (7 of 7), Rabble.ca (18 October 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-7-after-2011-voter-suppression-fraud-conservatives-remain-unrepentant.
“State Crimes Against Democracy and Canada's 2011 General Election.” Centre for Research on Globalization (13 March 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/state-crimes-against-democracy-and-canadas-2011-general-election.
“Law and Order, Mr Harper? First, Let's Put an End to Tory Election Fraud.” Two Row Times (16 April 2014). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/law-and-order-mr-harper-first-lets-put-an-end-to-tory-election-fraud.
“Evidence of Conservative Electoral Fraud: Sorry, Pierre Poilièvre, the Barn Door is Open.”(April 2014). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/evidence-of-conservative-electoral-fraud-sorry-pierre-poilivre-the-barn-doors-wide-open.
“22 Questions About Electoral Fraud in Canada's 2011 Election.” (March 2014). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/22-questions-about-electoral-fraud-in-canadas-2011-election.
“The Unacknowledged Scandal of Electoral Fraud.” Humanist Perspectives 165 (Summer 2008): 11-16. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/the-unacknowledged-scandal-of-electoral-fraud.
“The 2006 U. S. Midterms: Another Stolen Election?” Centre for Research on Globalization (4 November 2006), and nine other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/the-2006-us-midterms-another-stolen-election.
“Fraud and Scandal in Haiti’s Presidential Election: Préval’s Victory and the UN’s Disgrace.” Centre for Research on Globalization (3 March 2006), and ten other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/fraud-and-scandal-in-haitis-presidential-election-prvals-victory-and-the-uns-disgrace.
“Two Responses to Paul Gronke.” Debate on evidence of fraud in the 2004 U.S. presidential election; 4 January and 22 January, in “New Year’s Resolutions?” Blue Oregon (30 December 2005-22 January 2006). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/two-responses-to-paul-gronke.
“The Strange Death of American Democracy: Endgame in Ohio.” Centre for Research on Globalization (24 January 2005), and thirteen other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/the-strange-death-of-american-democracy-endgame-in-ohio.
“The Stolen U.S. Presidential Election: A Comparative Analysis.” Autonomy & Solidarity (2 December 2004), and seven other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/the-stolen-us-presidential-election-a-comparative-analysis.
“Evidence of Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election: An Expanded Reading List (Version 3).” Autonomy & Solidarity (2 December 2004), and six other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/evidence-of-fraud-in-the-2004-us-presidential-election-a-reader.
“Footprints of Electoral Fraud: The November 2 Exit Poll Scam.” Centre for Research on Globalization (5 November 2004), and twenty other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/footprints-of-electoral-fraud-the-november-2-exit-poll-scam.
9/11 Evidence
“State Crimes Against Democracy and Canada's 2011 General Election.” Centre for Research on Globalization (13 March 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/state-crimes-against-democracy-and-canadas-2011-general-election.
“Free Speech on Ottawa Transpo: Letter to Ottawa Transit Commission.” (19 November 2013). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/free-speech-on-ottawa-transpo-letter-to-ottawa-transit-commissionunpublished; available at .
“9/11, Torture, and Law.” In Ten Years After 9/11: An Anarchist Evaluation, ed. Michael Truscello, special issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, 2011.1 (2011): 141-70. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/911-torture-and-law.
“Defending Critical Research into 9/11.” Online correspondence in Maclean's (26 November to 2 December 2010). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/defending-critical-research-into-911.
“Resisting the Post-National: Canadian Critiques of the Geo/Cultural Politics of Globalization.” In Canada: Images of a Post/National Society, ed. Gunilla Florby, Mark Shackleton, and Katri Suhonen. Études Canadiennes—Canadian Studies, vol. 19. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009. 39-54.
“The Waterloo March 19th 9/11 Event: A Response.” (25 March 2008). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/the-waterloo-march-19th-911-event-a-response.
“'9/11 conspiracy questions': a response to Dr. Dave Baxter.” Letter published in The Ontarion (September 2006). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/911-conspiracy-questions-a-response-to-dr-dave-baxter.
“Into the Ring with CounterPunch on 9/11: How Alexander Cockburn, Otherwise So Bright, Blanks Out on 9/11 Evidence.” Scholars for 9/11 Truth (4 November 2006), and seventeen other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/into-the-ring-with-counterpunch-on-911-how-alexander-cockburn-otherwise-so-bright-blanks-out-on-911-evidence.
“Media Disinformation on 911: Anatomy of a Hatchet Job: CBC Radio’s ‘The Current’ and Scholars for 9/11 Truth.” Centre for Research on Globalization (29 August 2006), and ten other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/anatomy-of-a-hatchet-job-cbc-radios-the-current-and-scholars-for-911-truth.
Imperial Aggressions and Consequences
“A View of the Bataclan.” Centre for Research on Globalization (26 November 2015), and two other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/a-view-of-the-bataclan.
“The Triple Victimization of Omar Khadr.” ColdType 98 (Mid-May 2015): 28-31. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/the-triple-victimization-of-omar-khadr.
“Physicians for Human Rights and Propaganda: A Response to 'PHR Action—Urgent Need for Justice'.” (1 April 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/physicians-for-human-rights-and-propaganda-a-response-to-phr-actionurgent-need-for-justice.
“The So-called War on Terror is a Criminal Fraud: Interview with Kourosh Ziabari, Fars News Agency.” Fars News Agency (26 May 2014). Together with an exchange of letters with Professor Richard Pious of Columbia University. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/the-so-called-war-on-terror-is-a-criminal-fraud-interview-with-kourosh-ziabari-fars-news-agency.
“The case against backing Syria strike. Re: 'Assad is testing us, Baird warns,' Sept. 8.” Lead letter, Toronto Star (10 September 2013). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/the-case-against-backing-syria-strike-re-assad-is-testing-us-baird-warns-sept-8.
“WHO report on Iraqi birth defects a whitewash.” Interview with Jane Williams, Redeye, Vancouver Cooperative Radio, CFRO 100.5 FM (5 October 2013); Podcast available at Rabble.ca (6 October 2013). Transcript at http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/who-report-on-iraqi-birth-defects-a-whitewash-michael-keefer-interviewed-by-jane-williams.
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Canadian War Crimes in Afghanistan.” Centre for Research on Globalization (24 April 2011), and six other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/prime-minister-stephen-harper-and-canadian-war-crimes-in-afghanistan.
“The Dignity of the Haitian Women (and Canada’s Shame).” In Investigating Canadian Identities: 10th Anniversary Contributions, ed. Anna Pia De Luca. Centre for Canadian Culture Studies Series. Udine: FORUM, Editrice Universitaria Udinese, 2010. 111-25. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/dignity-of-the-haitian-women-and-canadas-shame.
“Canada in Afghanistan.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/canada-in-afghanistan.
“Fraud and Scandal in Haiti’s Presidential Election: Préval’s Victory and the UN’s Disgrace.” Centre for Research on Globalization (3 March 2006), and ten other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/fraud-and-scandal-in-haitis-presidential-election-prvals-victory-and-the-uns-disgrace.
“Petrodollars and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Understanding the Planned Attack on Iran.” Centre for Research on Globalization (10 February 2006), and twenty-four other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/petrodollars-and-nuclear-weapons-proliferation-understanding-the-planned-attack-on-iran.
“Were British Special Forces Soldiers Planting Bombs in Basra? Suspicions Strengthened by Earlier Reports.” Centre for Research on Globalization (25 September 2005), and thirty-four other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/were-british-special-forces-forces-soldiers-planting-bombs-in-basra-suspicions-strengthened-by-earlier-reports.
“Soldati Britannici delle Forze Speciali Posizionavano Bombe a Bassora? Sospetti Rafforzati da Notizie Precedenti.” Traduzione per www.comedonchisciotte.org a cura di Oriente. Come Don Chiosciotte (2 October 2005), and five other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/soldati-britannici-delle-forze-speciali-posizionavano-bombe-a-bassora-sospetti-rafforzati-da-notizie-precedenti.
“¿Provocan EE.UU. y Gran Bretaña una guerra civil en Irak?” Trans. Germán Leyens. Rebelión (3 October 2005), and eight other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/provocan-eeuu-y-gran-bretaa-une-guerra-civil-en-irak.
“A Cup of Cool Reason for the Ottawa Citizen’s Fevered Brow: In Defence of Michel Chossudovsky.” Uruknet (4 September 2005), and nine other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/in-defence-of-michel-chossudovsky-a-cup-of-cool-reason-for-the-ottawa-citizens-fevered-brow.
“George Galloway’s Lesson in Speaking Truth to Power.” Centre for Research on Globalization (18 May 2005), and four other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/george-galloways-lesson-in-speaking-truth-to-power.
“Hugo Chavez Frías and the Sense of History.” Autonomy & Solidarity (1 May 2005), and fifteen other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/hugo-chvez-fras-and-the-sense-of-history.
“Hugo Chavez Frias e il senso della storia.” Trans. Carlo Martini. ZNet (3 maggio 2005), and three other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/hugo-chvez-fras-e-il-senso-della-storia.
“Michael Winterbottom’s In This World.” Introduction to the first film in the Beyond Hollywood 2004/2005 series, University of Guelph, 3 October 2004. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/michael-winterbottoms-in-this-world.
War Against Iraq: Critical Resources. (6 April 2003). An anthology of excerpts from recent publications on the Iraq crisis and related issues, accompanied by critical and explanatory commentary. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/war-against-iraq-critical-resources.
“Gulf War 1991: Canada's Involvement.” Letter to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (26 February 1991). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/gulf-war-1991-canadas-involvement.
Israel/Palestine
“Resisting McCarthyism: From the 'PC Wars' to the 'New Antisemitism'.” Canadian Sites of Resistance, ed. Weronika Suchacka, Hartmut Lutz, and Anna Krika. TransCanadiana: Polish Journal of Canadian Studies 8 (2016). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2016/10/21/9jno16s94cjfxh84gr7w7nzt5bcbdu.
“Harper's Anti-Terrorism Act isn't about Terrorism: It's a Torture Act.” Centre for Research on Globalization (11 March 2015), and two other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/harpers-anti-terrorism-act-isnt-about-terrorism-its-a-torture-act.
“A Double Bouquet for Catherine Chatterley.” (October 2010, February 2015). Two responses to ad hominem smears by Catherine Chatterley. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/a-double-bouquet-for-catherine-chatterley.
“Letter to the New Democratic Party on Israel's Attack on Gaza.” (17 July 2014). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/letter-to-the-new-democratic-party-on-israels-attack-on-gaza.
“Criminalizing Criticism of Israel in Canada: A Hate-Propaganda Trojan Horse in Bill C-13.” Seriously Free Speech Committee (6 April 2014), and two other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/criminalizing-criticism-of-israel-a-hate-propaganda-trojan-horse-in-bill-c-13.
“Criminalizzazione della critica d'Israele in Canada.” Trans. Oscar Mina. Eurasia: Rivista di Studi Geopolitici (17 maggio 2014). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/criminalizzazione-della-critica-disraele-in-canada.
“Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions: Illegitimate Pressure on the University of Windsor Student Union.” Independent Jewish Voices Canada (13 March 2014). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-illegitimate-pressure-on-the-university-of-windsor-student-union.
“Letter of Resignation from the Editorial Bard of The Canadian Charger.” (1 December 2013). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/letter-of-resignation-from-the-editorial-board-of-the-canadian-charger.
“The Toronto Transit Commission vs. International Law.” Independent Jewish Voices Canada (2 November 2013). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/the-toronto-transit-commission-vs-international-law.
“Responding to Terry Glavin's Smear.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/responding-to-terry-glavins-smear.
“What must be said,” by Günter Grass, translation by Michael Keefer and Nica Mintz of Grass’s “Was gesagt werden muss.” PULSE (7 April 2012), and twenty-six other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/what-must-be-said.
“Desperate Imaginings: Rhetoric and Ideology of the ‘New Antisemitism’” / “Fantasie disperate: Retorica e ideologia del ‘Nuovo Antisemitismo’.” Trans. Tiziana Tampinelli. Text, in English and Italian, of my lecture, introduced by Dr. Antonella Castelnuovo (Università della Tuscia / Associazione Italia-Israele [Siena]), given at the Centro Siena-Toronto dell’Università degli Studi di Siena, 9 March 2011. English text, http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/desperate-imaginings-rhetoric-and-ideology-of-the-new-antisemitism-siena-lecture-9-march-2011.
“Statement at the Independent Jewish Voices Press Conference, Parliament Hill, Ottawa (8 November 2010).” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/statement-at-the-independent-jewish-voices-press-conference-parliament-hill-ottawa-8-november-2010.
“Ehab Lotayef’s To Love a Palestinian Woman: Poems in English and Arabic.” The Canadian Charger (25 August 2010). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/ehab-lotayefs-to-love-a-palestinian-woman-poems-in-english-and-arabic.
“In Defence of Jenny Peto—A Letter to Dalton McGuinty.” Independent Jewish Voices Canada (11 December 2010), and five other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/in-defence-of-jenny-peto-a-letter-to-dalton-mcguinty.
“Introduction” to Antisemitism Real and Imagined. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/antisemitism-real-and-imagined-introduction.
“Antisemitism in Canada: A Disgraceful History.” Chapter One in Part Three of Antisemitism Real and Imagined. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/antisemitism-in-canada-a-disgraceful-history.
“Data and Deception: Quantitative Evidence of Antisemitism.” Chapter Two in Part Three of Antisemitism Real and Imagined. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/data-and-deception-quantitative-evidence-of-antisemitism.
“Desperate Imaginings: Rhetoric and Ideology of the 'New Antisemitism'.” Chapter Three in Part Three of Antisemitism Real and Imagined. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/desperate-imaginings-rhetoric-and-ideology-of-the-new-antisemitism.
“Submission to the Canadian Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism” (31 August 2009). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/submission-to-the-canadian-parliamentary-inquiry-into-antisemitism.
“Silenced Dissent: Four Short Texts on Israel/Palestine.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/silenced-dissent-four-short-texts-on-israelpalestine.
Canadian Politics
“This should be more than just a day of remembering.” Toronto Star (11 November 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/this-should-be-more-than-just-a-day-of-remembering.
“Backtalk from the 'old stock'.” Toronto Star (15 October 2015), and two websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/back-talk-from-the-old-stock.
“Suppressing Our Knowledge of Vote Suppression.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (1 of 7), Rabble.ca (8 September 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-1-suppressing-our-knowledge-of-vote-suppression.
“The Dimensions of the 2011 Vote-Suppression Fraud.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (2 of 7), Rabble.ca (9 September 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-2-the-dimensions-of-the-2011-vote-suppression-fraud.
“Harperite Harassment Calls in the 2011 Election.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (3 of 7), Rabble.ca (24 September 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-3-harperite-harassment-calls-in-the-2011-election.
“Targeting (and Conservative Responsibility) in the 2011 Telephone Fraud.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (4 of 7), Rabble.ca (7 October 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-4-targeting-and-conservative-responsibility-in-the-2011-telephone-fraud.
“The 2011 Vote-Suppression Fraud: How They Got Away With It.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (5 of 7), Rabble.ca (13 October 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-5-the-2011-vote-suppression-fraud-how-they-got-away-with-it.
“Elections Canada Bungled its Investigation of Michael Sona and the Robocall Scandal.” Sabotaging Democracy blog (6 of 7), Rabble.ca (15 October 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-6-elections-canada-bungled-its-investigation-of-michael-sona-and-the-2011-robocall-scandal.
“After 2011 Vote-Suppression Fraud, Conservatives Remain Unrepentant.” Sabotaging Democracy blog & of 7), Rabble.ca (18 October 2015). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/11/24/sabotaging-democracy-7-after-2011-voter-suppression-fraud-conservatives-remain-unrepentant.
“The Triple Victimization of Omar Khadr.” ColdType 98 (Mid-May 2015): 28-31. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/the-triple-victimization-of-omar-khadr.
“Evidence of Conservative Electoral Fraud: Sorry, Pierre Poilièvre, the Barn Door is Open.”(April 2014). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/evidence-of-conservative-electoral-fraud-sorry-pierre-poilivre-the-barn-doors-wide-open.
“Harper's Anti-Terrorism Act isn't about Terrorism: It's a Torture Act.” Centre for Research on Globalization (11 March 2015), and two other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/harpers-anti-terrorism-act-isnt-about-terrorism-its-a-torture-act.
“Letter to the New Democratic Party on Israel's Attack on Gaza.” (17 July 2014). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/letter-to-the-new-democratic-party-on-israels-attack-on-gaza.
“Talking About War.” Review of Noah Richler, What We Talk About When We Talk About War (Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane, 2012). University of Toronto Quarterly 83.2 (Spring 2014): 410-11. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/talking-about-war.
“Justice and Legality: The Sisters of Antigone.” Two Row Times (25 December 2013). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/justice-and-legality-the-sisters-of-antigone.
“Canada's Problems with the Law.” Two Row Times (20 November 2013), and one other website. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/canadas-problems-with-the-law.
“Noam Chomsky: Indigenous people 'are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us'.” Two Row Times (5 November 2013), and two other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/noam-chomsky-indigenous-people-are-the-ones-taking-the-lead-in-trying-to-protect-all-of-us.
“The Toronto Transit Commission vs. International Law.” Independent Jewish Voices Canada (2 November 2013). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/20/the-toronto-transit-commission-vs-international-law.
“Stephen Harper's Stealthy Campaign to Purchase Not-So-Stealthy F-35 Fighter-Bombers.” Centre for Research on Globalization (27 April 2011), and three other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/stephen-harpers-stealth-campaign-to-purchase-not-so-stealthy-f-35-fighter-bombers.
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Canadian War Crimes in Afghanistan.” Centre for Research on Globalization (24 April 2011), and six other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/prime-minister-stephen-harper-and-canadian-war-crimes-in-afghanistan.
“In Defence of Jenny Peto—A Letter to Dalton McGuinty.” Independent Jewish Voices Canada (11 December 2010), and five other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/in-defence-of-jenny-peto-a-letter-to-dalton-mcguinty.
“Death Squads vs. Democracy: Tom Flanagan’s Joke.” The Canadian Charger (8 December 2010), and fifteen other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/death-squads-vs-democracy-tom-flanagans-joke.
“Lenten Meditation 2009 (for Bloor Street United Church).” (March 2009). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/lenten-meditation-2009-for-bloor-street-united-church.
“A Canada Day Meditation: Standing on Guard for What, Precisely?” The Canadian Charger (7 August 2009). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/a-canada-day-meditation-standing-on-guard-for-what-precisely.
“The Toronto 18 Frame-Up: Fraud and Fear-Mongering in the ‘War on Terror’.” Global Outlook 13 (2009): 52-59. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/the-toronto-18-frame-up-fraud-and-fear-mongering-in-the-war-on-terror.
“Further Reflections on the ‘Toronto 18’ Case: ‘Terror Law’ and the ‘Crimen Exceptum’.” Global Outlook 13 (2009): 60-62. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/further-reflections-on-the-toronto-18-case-terror-law-and-the-crimen-exceptum.
“The Toronto 18: A Second Update.” Global Outlook 13 (2009): 62-64. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/the-toronto-18-a-second-update.
“Resisting the Post-National: Canadian Critiques of the Geo/Cultural Politics of Globalization.” In Canada: Images of a Post/National Society, ed. Gunilla Florby, Mark Shackleton, and Katri Suhonen. Études Canadiennes—Canadian Studies, vol. 19. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009. 39-54. Also available at
“Notes for a 'Professor Profile,' February 2008.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/notes-for-a-professor-profile-february-2008.
“The Harper Government and ‘War-on-Terror’ Immigration Policy.” In What is Your Place? Indigeneity and Immigration in Canada, ed. Hartmut Lutz, with Thomas Rafico Ruiz. Beiträge zur Kanadistik, Band 14. Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien. Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag, 2007. 169-90. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/the-harper-government-and-canadas-war-on-terror-immigration-policy.
“A Cup of Cool Reason for the Ottawa Citizen’s Fevered Brow: In Defence of Michel Chossudovsky.” Uruknet (4 September 2005), and nine other websites. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/15/in-defence-of-michel-chossudovsky-a-cup-of-cool-reason-for-the-ottawa-citizens-fevered-brow.
“Silenced Dissent: Four Short Texts on Israel/Palestine.” http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/silenced-dissent-four-short-texts-on-israelpalestine.
“Forging Freedom: Critical Humanist Strategies Against Corporatism.” Munro Beattie Lecture, 1999-2000 (invited). Carleton University, 11 February 2000. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/14/forging-freedom-critical-humanist-strategies-of-resistance-to-corporatism-the-munro-beattie-lecture-1999-2000-carleton-university.
“The Chomsky Nomination: A Response.” Letter published in The Ontarion (9 February 1999). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/the-chomsky-nomination-a-response.
“A strange saga: Despite reports and fans, a heritage bridge in Eden Mills is in danger of being destroyed.” Insight column, The Kitchener-Waterloo Record (30 May 1998): A19. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/a-strange-saga-despite-reports-and-fans-a-heritage-bridge-in-eden-mills-is-in-danger-of-being-destroyed.
“Man of the Far Right.” Review of David Frum, What's Right: The New Conservatism and What It Means for Canada. Canadian Literature 156 (Spring1998): 131-33. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/hard-man-of-the-far-right.
“Letter to John Godfrey, MP” (27 July 1996). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/letter-to-john-godfrey-mp.
“Merger law unnecessary.” Letter published in At Guelph (3 February 1993): 2. http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/merger-law-unnecessary.
“Cheap shots.” Letter published in The Globe and Mail (9 June 1992). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/cheap-shots.
“Ray Conlogue's Apocalyptic Reveries.” Letter (unpublished) to The Globe and Mail (12 June 1991). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/ray-conlogues-apocalyptic-reveries.
“Gulf War 1991: Canada's Involvement.” Letter to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (26 February 1991). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/gulf-war-1991-canadas-involvement.
“The Minister for Indian Affairs and the Oka Crisis.” Letter to the Hon. Thomas Siddon, Minister for Indian Affairs, and others (24 July 1990). http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/the-minister-for-indian-affairs-and-the-oka-crisis.
“Herring guts in July.” Letter published in The Globe and Mail (23 April 1988): D7. Available at http://www.michaelkeefer.com/blog/2015/9/18/herring-guts-in-july.