The Use and Abuse of Nature

Ancient Chinese views of the balance between the human and natural worlds.

How to Survive Winter

Now that climate change has made winter a shadow of its former self, are we learning to appreciate it?

Biden Administration Offers Bonuses to Doctors Who Implement ‘Anti-Racism Plans’

New Medicare rules also reward ‘trauma-informed care.’

Cuban Dictatorship Runs Out Of Paper

Unable to print new food ration books for 2022.

The Cult Of Christopher Hitchens

He would be unimpressed by the fawning of his fans.

Will California Ever Be Safe?

The affluent look away while their cities burn.

What Big History Misses

Sweeping the human story into a cosmic tale is a thrill but what is overlooked in the grandeur?

How To Pray To A Dead God

The modern world is disenchanted. God remains dead. But our need for transcendence lives on. 

How Citizen Scientists Uncovered the Strange Behavior of ‘Vampire’ Butterflies

In the forests of Indonesia, citizen scientists discover an unsettling revelation about butterflies.

Millipedes Have Been Living a Lie

No known creature actually had 1,000 legs—until now.

Medieval Macaroni

On the travels and linguistic transformations of pasta.

George Eliot Meets Spinoza

One of the author’s most constant companions was a philosopher who had been dead for well over a century.

Man Loads His Truck with Grill and Food

To help tornado victims in Kentucky.

A Woman Gave Birth In A Tesla

While it was driving on auto-pilot.

How The West Enables Islamism

Progressives condone blasphemy laws that get people lynched in Pakistan.

Healthcare Waits Are Now The Longest Ever

COVID-19 does not account for three decades of wait-time increases.

Disgrace

Biden abandoned over 60,000 Afghan interpreters, support personnel -- along with 14,000 Americans.

How Are Alberta And Quebec Treated Differently?

Let me count the ways.

The Denazified Library

Banning books in occupied Germany.

An Inflammation of Place

On the symptoms and spread of Newyorkitis.

Anti-Racism as Office-Politics Power Play

A Canadian academic case study.

Inflation Is Far Worse

Than the government admits.

Stay Calm and Houseplant On

Plant obsessions are not the same thing as a passion for plants.

93-Year-Old in Quebec Donates Cherished Island

After protecting it from city sprawl for 50 years.

'Absolute insanity'

School illegally resurrects segregation for ‘families of color.’

L.A. Schools Host LGBT Club For 4-Year-Olds

For ‘two spirit’ sexuality and child mutilation.

Covid Warning

Omicron variant ‘can bind’ to rats sparking horror plague fears.

Terminally Ill Man Turns Himself Into A Cyborg To Extend His Life

A British scientist diagnosed with a debilitating disease has transformed himself into a cyborg to extend his life.

Islamic Extremists

Would welcome the election of Eric Zemmour.

Can ‘Distraction-Free’ Devices Change the Way We Write?

The digital age enabled productivity but invited procrastination. Now writers are rebelling against their word processors.

Becoming a Religion of the Book

Scripture before the Bible.

Why Tokyo Works

Understanding how urban design makes this city work.

Love in a Cold Climate

On trips to the ends of the earth.

Christopher Hitchens

The last cool columnist.

‘A Riot of the Dead’

A German poet reports from the Paris cholera outbreak of 1832.

Morbid Pleasures

 On our obsession with ruins.

The Trans Inquisition

Forced out of her own dance company for questioning gender-identity dogma.

French Catholic Procession

Attacked by Islamists.

Emergency Medical Services

George Eliot’s Romola finds meaning amid suffering.

Viral News

Blogging the Great Plague of 1665.

San Francisco’s Vaunted Tolerance Dims

Amid brazen crimes.

Future Generations Of Canadians

Face bleak future.

New Caledonia Considers Breaking Away From France

Toward China.

George Orwell Outside The Whale

What the writer teaches us about politics and the imagination in a time of crisis.

Dark Days for Canada-Cuba Relations

A perfect storm has been brewing to reverse decades of cooperative trade, travel and politics.