Is abstinence as deadly a sin as excess?
· Photograph by Nikola Tamindzic
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY:
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological
Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
by Theodore Dalrymple
Encounter Books, 2006
146 pages $33
The Devil’s Picnic: Around the World
in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit
by Taras Grescoe
HarperCollins, 2005
359 pages $35
Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning
the Nature, Varieties, and Plausibility
of Hedonism
by Fred Feldman
Clarendon Press, 2004
221 pages $33
Canada & its place in the world. Published by
the non-profit charitable
Walrus Foundation
June 2012
The Walrus HOOPP Pension Debate
Be It Resolved That Canadians Are Incapable
of Saving for Their Retirement Needs Alone
12 pm, Wednesday, May 30 at
Hart House Debate Room, Toronto
The Walrus Glenbow Debate
Calgary’s Cowboy Culture:
Living Legacy or Just History?
6:30 pm, Thursday, June 7 at
Epcor Centre: Max Bell Theatre, Calgary
