Our Future for Sale, maybe

Here is my most recent magazine feature in The Walrus, Canada's leading magazine of politics and culture. It's about 8,000 words: "Office of the President," an in-depth profile of Indira Samarasekera, Canada's leading university advocate and rising global star.

It's also an investigative look into how universities are increasingly defined by exterior forces, such as energy companies looking to improve their profits and governments hungry for research that fuels economic growth. As the story makes clear, both universities and politicians are not always rising to the challenges ahead. 

Thanks to The Walrus for letting me take the story on some unexpected turns! Journalism is more fun when you don't know the destination.

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2010.09-education-office-of-the-president