In the eighteenth instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the confusion that resulted when French and Indigenous fighters jointly assaulted an Iroquois village in 1615.
We should be wary of teaching the next generation that identity is something that can be bought.
The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.
The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right.
The Nocebo Effect occurs when we experience pain, depression, or illness based on nothing more than negative expectations.
In a new book, Katherine Brodsky explains how members of the ‘silenced majority’ find new audiences after enduring episodes of public mobbing.
The contrasting histories of Singapore, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka demonstrate the dangers of attempting to erase the colonial past.
An interview with Sean Mathias, the director of a daring and original new film adaptation of ‘Hamlet.’
In the eighth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the Huns’ increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire.
Some rarely discussed phenomena can shed light on why the focus on identity and introspection has coincided with a rise of mental health issues, including identity disorders.
For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an “acute awareness” of the limitations of our power to influence reality.
Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism.
Canadians have had to formulate a new language to address new complications posed by immigration, and no one is quite sure how that language should sound.