The political challenge of the 21st century: Building a democratic, humanist socialism
March 8, 2005
Derrick O'Keefe
The twentieth century wasn't particularly kind to the legacies of the various schools of socialism, whether "revolutionary" or "reformist." In Venezuela, a government with an indisputable democratic mandate is not only embracing anti-imperialism, but calling for the reclamation of humanistic socialism.

The Root Beer of all Evil

March 8, 2005
Charles Demers
In response to A&W's obnoxious thirst for nostalgia, a Seven Oaks editor takes a trip down memory lane with the company that employed him, and then his cousin, at the bare-bones variants of B.C.'s many minimum wages. The specter of Karl Marx may appear in a Root Beer-induced haze.