Art and Culture

Anti-Enlightenment Thinking, Past and Present

The Enlightenment was as remarkable as it was unexpected, but it led directly to the benefits we enjoy today.

Adam Wakeling 15 Nov 2023 · 9 min read

United Against the Iroquois

In the fourteenth instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Champlain’s military alliance with France’s new Innu, Algonquin, and Wendat trading partners.

Greg Koabel 13 Nov 2023 · 24 min read

Joseph Boyden Isn’t Indigenous. But his Historical Fiction Is Still Worth Reading

The author’s widely celebrated 2013 novel, ‘The Orenda,’ helped educate Canadians about their country’s colonial roots. It shouldn’t be cast into literary oblivion just because Boyden misrepresented his ancestry.

Andy Lamey 11 Nov 2023 · 34 min read

The Kind of Man Your Mother Warned You About

Why women love true crime.

Robert King 6 Nov 2023 · 10 min read

Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda

There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.

Julia Friedman 3 Nov 2023 · 8 min read

A Roman Trauma

In the fourth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the Visigothic sack of Rome in 410 C.E.

Herbert Bushman 1 Nov 2023 · 17 min read

An Eye for the Jugular

A new documentary looks back on the life and work of satirist, novelist, and New Journalist, Tom Wolfe.

Thomas Doherty 27 Oct 2023 · 11 min read

Betraying Their Maverick Roots, Fringe Festivals Have Become Ideological Gatekeepers

A former artistic director of the Nanaimo Fringe Festival describes how transgender activists engineered her ouster.

Bryony Dixon 24 Oct 2023 · 10 min read

British and Black

Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries.

Ralph Leonard 20 Oct 2023 · 12 min read

Champlain Goes to War

In the thirteenth instalment of our series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the crucial battlefield alliance that French explorers forged with Indigenous allies in 1609.

Greg Koabel 19 Oct 2023 · 26 min read