Friday, 19 March 2021

Father Jailed After Referring to Biological Female Child as His Daughter

The warrant was issued by a judge for the arrest of a father after calling his biological female child his ‘daughter,’ and referring to her with the pronouns ‘she’ and ‘her.’ He was found to be in contempt of court.




Our Strange Addiction

The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions.




Literary Scholars Should Argue Better

Recent ‘method wars’ suggest that we have something to learn from other fields.



Academic ‘Study’ Based on Tweets Claims to Prove ‘Racism’ in the Workplace

Cornell recently highilghted a study which found that Black women suffer from something called the ‘white gaze’ in working environments.




O’Toole Says Liberals ‘Falling Short’ On Foreign Aid

Previously, O’Toole had criticized the Liberal government for focusing on foreign aid.



Wednesday, 17 March 2021

More Than the Second World War: Here's the Eyewatering Debt Canada is Racking Up

With just one year of deficit, Canada could build enough Confederation Bridges to span the Atlantic Ocean.



Myth and the Mind

Saturated with rites and symbols, psychology feeds a deep human need once nourished by mythology.



Nature’s Playbook

From termite queens to the carbon cycle, nature knows how to avoid network collapse. Human designers should pay heed.



What is Literature For?

We should start owning our reading and asking more serious questions about what place literary education has in our collective life today.