How a former teenage hacker became the crusader who exposed the world. The strange story of Julian Assange, and what he has wrought.By Luiza Ch. Savage16 min
The TV shows, books and magazines aren’t enough for Mike Holmes. He wants to fix the world. And he figures he’s got just 13 years left, reports Jonathon Gatehouse.By Jonathon Gatehouse13 min
THE 61-YEAR-OLD author and Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens is one of the most popular, eloquent and contrarian public intellectuals of our time. His book, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, assailed the reputation and work of the Catholic nun and icon, as his later The Case Against Henry Kissinger did Richard Nixon’s former secretary of state.By NOAH RICHLER12 min
Plus, why Cleopatra got a raw deal, the man who killed Pluto, Keith Richards on Mick Jagger, Louisa May Alcott’s revenge, and the vanishing ski bumBy SARAH WEINMAN, ANNE KINGSTON, Brian Bethune, MARTIN PATRIQUIN, JESSICA ALLEN, JULIA MCKINNELL9 min
As a member of the latest lost generation, I read with much interest Jonathon Gatehouse’s “Generation Screwed: what the boomers are leaving their children” (Society, Dec. 6). I’m 29 years old with a master’s in urban planning and solid technical skills.
Once an iconic arbiter of teen cool, MuchMusic is now fighting to reinvent itself in an age when demand for music videos on television is virtually nonexistentBy CHRIS SORENSEN6 min
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