The Purity Spiral of Canada's Music Industry Now that they are channeling the self-censoring spirit of our times, the soul is being sucked out of the business, and the art, that I love. This essay is my attempt to explain how we got here. Neil Gray 30 Sep 2018 · 24 min read
My Unpopular Opinion: There Are Too Many Mediocre Artists There are too many artists, too many people who want to be artists, most of them aren’t very good, and schools should focus on inculcating self-discipline rather than dopey ‘all must have prizes’ creativity. Helen Dale 21 Aug 2018 · 5 min read
The Furore Over a Quebec Theatre Production Has Missed the Point Quebec briefly played host this summer to a theatrical production described by one prominent artist as “reminiscent of blackface minstrel shows.” Dan Delmar 14 Aug 2018 · 7 min read
Unfabling the East—A Review Unfabling the East is a brilliant new book by Jürgen Osterhammel that goes back to the original sources, and carefully reconstructs the evolution of European views of Asia. Michael Savage 2 Jul 2018 · 6 min read
Censorship and Stereotypes: China's Hip-Hop Generation The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid. Thomas Clements 13 Jun 2018 · 6 min read
Against the Politicisation of Museums Activists wanted museums to pivot away from historic collections and towards their audiences, focusing more on excluded groups. Michael Savage 4 May 2018 · 6 min read
The Tyranny of the Subjective Among these is a preference for what have come to be called ‘traditionally marginalized narratives. Elizabeth Finne 19 Mar 2018 · 15 min read
"Canada Has Gone Mad": Indigenous Representation and the Hounding of Angie Abdou Abdou responded to the advice she got by writing a different kind of book altogether. “These were big edits,” she says. “I now had a ghost story without a ghost.” Jonathan Kay 10 Jan 2018 · 14 min read
Making a Stand for Cultural Universalism Quebec is very much part of that great cultural mash-up we call Western culture. Jonathan Kay 8 Dec 2017 · 11 min read
The Problem with Public Art Great cultures of the past were built around grand unifying ideas. David Lucas 15 Nov 2017 · 8 min read
E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One The centripetal tendency, if unchecked, ends in a black hole, in narrow paranoia, in the life-denying singularity of fundamentalism or fascism. David Lucas 8 Oct 2017 · 10 min read
Why Postmodern Art is Vacant Yet, modern art is still portrayed as being avant-garde, defying trends, and sticking it to the establishment. Jason Newman 12 Sep 2017 · 10 min read
Confessions of a Hello Kitty Killer: The Pernicious Effects of Cuteness Ranked by concentrated cutesiness, the ‘original’ smiley faces that launched a fad and first bothered me as a kid didn’t pack the punch of what they would devolve into. Michael Brandow 24 Jun 2017 · 18 min read
You Are Not Important: Defund Identity Culture If taxpayers from both the Right and the Left refuse to fund identity culture, what exactly will remain of the arts? Reilly Smethurst 1 May 2017 · 7 min read
