Art and Culture
A collection of 747 posts
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion'
I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.
Helen Dale
· 15 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
How to Build a Bed
According to a local historian the house was probably occupied by freed slaves, possibly even an interracial couple. By 1840 standards New Orleans was a progressive place.
Stephen Elliott
· 10 min read
Quand le 'Bye Bye' Éloigne les Deux Solitudes
Ils y ont vu un sketch qui tournait en ridicule le fait que le premier ministre avait lui-même folklorisé, voire caricaturé les coutumes indiennes lors de son périple. Alors que certains anglophones y ont plutôt vu une moquerie…de la communauté indienne.
François Cardinal
· 7 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Entering the Mind of an Inuit Whale-Hunter
Klarmann and Eklund didn’t care about getting players to admire Indigenous peoples, even if that is what they achieved. They were just two nerds trying to make a good game.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
Truth and Disfavored Identities
Activists and Twitter blowhards, some of them with thousands of followers, have run roughshod over the facts with a false narrative of grotesque privilege colliding with noble oppression that confirmed their ideological preferences.
Joshua Hunter
· 6 min read
Why Quebec Isn't Interested in Anglo Lectures About Cultural Appropriation
The joke was on the PM, not on India, on Indians or or Indo-Canadians. Yet that was not how some Anglophones saw it.
François Cardinal
· 8 min read
What Is This Thing You Call 'Social Justice'?
“Why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we’ve learned not to fear words,” Uhura says.
Barrett Wilson
· 10 min read
Gillette's Progressive Politics: 'Corinthian Leather' for the Progressive Soul
n the 1960s, being progressive meant expanding the range of permissible behaviour. A half century later, it’s about imposing constraints.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept
As far as “master concepts” go, this one is hard to beat. One worries, however, that it is a little too neat.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 13 min read
Headline Rhymes
Views on the news, delivered so smooth.
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Tiers of Pride and Shame
Pride and shame are two sides of the same coin; so if collective pride makes sense, then collective shame makes sense too
Coleman Hughes
· 7 min read