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T. G. Kelemen writes, "Audiences are not stupid. They can smell a sermon. They know when a character has been written as a person and when he has been written as a category."

May 30, 2026
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By: T. G. Kelemen

T. G. Kelemen is a writer, playwright and poet, and a former private-placement and restructuring dealmaker for owner-managed companies. His forthcoming book, Lawful But Awful, examines Canada’s drift into tutelary despotism under “Big sMother” — the soft rule of forms, experts, permissions, grants and managed dependence.

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