JAMES LAXER is a Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. An award-winning author and a former Toronto Star columnist, Laxer is the author of twenty-three books, including Mission of Folly: Canada and Afghanistan, Perils of Empire and Red Diaper Baby: A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism.
There is an excellent series of short interviews with Dr. Laxer on TVO's Flying Solo and he blogs regularly on politics and the economy at www.jameslaxer.com.
