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‘Victory City’: Salman Rushdie, Alive and Kicking
PRH Victory City: A Novel By Salman Rushdie Penguin Random House/February, 2023 Reviewed by Bob Rae March 26, 2023 Reading a new book by Salman Rushdie is always quite the experience. No living writer...
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Letter from the United Nations: Seeking Solidarity in an Age of Polycrisis
Canada Mission UN/Via Twitter Bob Rae May 4, 2023 If there were ever a “slow” time in the United Nations calendar, there isn’t one anymore. The expanding role of UN committees, engagement with civil...
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Ignatieff Returns to the Great Intellectual Love of His Life: Big Ideas
Isaiah Berlin: A Life By Michael Ignatieff Revised, updated edition from Pushkin Press/May 2023 Reviewed by Bob Rae June 11, 2023 Early one Monday morning in the fall of 1969, two young Oxford...
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‘Tell Them We’re Human’: With the Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh
Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where almost one million Rohingya from Myanmar have sought shelter and workers in the camp are ‘doing their best to create some order out of chaos,’...
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‘Orwell: The New Life’ — A Whole New Look at the Master
Orwell: The New Life By D. J. Taylor Simon & Schuster/May, 2023 Reviewed by Bob Rae July 12, 2023 Twenty years ago, D.J. Taylor wrote a biography of George Orwell that, at the time, Christopher...
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An Oxbridge Pilgrimage with an Irish Interlude
Arlene and Bob Rae in Ireland/ambassadorial selfie Bob Rae July 24, 2023 Travelling as a diplomat is not the same as travelling as either a politician or as a private citizen. It is both less and more...
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‘Engaged, Amusing, and Disarmingly Candid’: RIP, Richard Dicerni
Bob Rae August 13, 2023 I had the great pleasure of working with Richard Dicerni when he joined the government of Ontario as deputy minister of Energy in 1993. Richard had been a career public...
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Sic Transit Gloria: Isolationism and its Consequences
‘Isolationism, global disengagement and retreat are, like appeasement in the 1930s, based on the false notion the abandoned world will be a safe one,’ writes United Nations Ambassador Bob Rae....
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Letter from the United Nations: Fighting the Good Fight
Canada Mission UN/Via Twitter Bob Rae September 8, 2023 As permanent representatives gathered at the United Nations General Assembly in New York for the ceremonial swearing-in of the new president of...
View ArticleHistory at a Crossroads: Ambassador Bob Rae Addresses the UNGA
The following is Canada’s national statement at the General Debate during the opening of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 26, 2023. Delivered by Bob Rae, Canada’s...
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Remembering Ed Broadbent
Ed Broadbent and Bob Rae, a.k.a. Batman and Robin, in 1979/Canadian Press By Bob Rae January 12, 2024 Ed Broadbent was born in Oshawa, where his father worked for General Motors and was an active...
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Brian Mulroney Dared Greatly
Brian Mulroney and Bob Rae in 1991/Getty Images via Bob Rae By Bob Rae March 4, 2024 One of Brian Mulroney’s favourite quotations was Teddy Roosevelt’s famous praise for life “in the arena”: “It is not...
View ArticleSome Things I Have Learned: Ambassador Bob Rae’s Speech to the Advocates Society
The following is the text of a speech delivered by United Nations Ambassador Bob Rae to the Advocates Society in Toronto on June 26, 2024. I am very grateful to the Advocate’s Society for the...
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‘A Critical Moment’: Ambassador Bob Rae on Being Elected ECOSOC President
@CanadaUN On July 25, 2024, Canada’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Bob Rae, was elected president of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), for a one-year...
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