Finding Home in War

The history—and limitations—of the international refugee regime.

An Immanent Humanist

Revisiting the life and work of the eccentric anthropologist Paul Radin.

Pregnant Journalist Turns To Taliban For Help

After New Zealand denied entry. 

Canadian Patriots Rise Up Against Mandate Tyranny

Spread the word.

China’s Ambassador To US Warns Of Possible Military Conflict Over Taiwan

Unusually explicit reference to prospect of war comes as tensions over island’s future continue to rise.

Canadians Cheer On ‘Freedom Convoy’ of Truckers

Lawmakers are told to ‘lock your doors.’ 

DC Comics’ Bisexual Climate Change-Fighting Superman

Is Kryptonite to sales.

Unsafe At Any Speed

The ceaseless self-pity of cyclists.

Cosmic Errors

The peculiar legacy of H.P. Lovecraft.

How Paris Became the City of Light

Louis XIV hires the city’s first police chief.

Canada Omicron Infections Past Peak

Hospitalizations rising.

Outrage as Disney Debuts ‘New Look’

For Minnie Mouse.

65 Different Species of Animals

 Laugh.

The Writing on the Wall: Sci-Fi’s Empty Techno-Optimism

Before ‘offering solutions’, Sci-Fi must actually grapple with the material realities of our present.

Jordan Peterson Has Been On An Absolute Tear

Here is a collection of his spiciest tweets.

Elon Musk Calls Biden a ‘Damp Sock Puppet’

Musk got specific as to why he has a problem with Joe Biden. ‘Biden is treating the American public like fools.’ 

Cowardly Canadian Prime Minister Attempts to Avoid Ottawa Protest

 Isolating at home.

 

Pandemic Pay Hikes Shows a Tale of Two Ontarios

The sectoral divide is a slap in the face to hardworking taxpayers across the province.

Digging Up Troy

Heinrich Schliemann and the search for archaeological evidence of Homer’s Troy.

Imagined Futures

From Albert Robida’s cities in the sky to Jules Verne’s 1960s dystopia.

Elon Musk Voices Support for Canadian Truckers

Protesting Trudeau’s mandates.

Professor Explains How The Great Books

Changed his life.

Justin Trudeau Calls 45-Mile-Long Truckers Convoy Small and Fringe

And he is dead wrong.

The University of Kansas

Offers a class called ‘Angry White Male Studies.’

People Love Dead Jews

A portrait of modern anti-Semitism.

Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad?

Buildings from the past fifty years have been largely uninspiring. Why don’t we take good design seriously?

Water Margin

Searching for the sources of China’s great rivers.

Critical Response

Max Eastman vs. Ernest Hemingway.

Seattle School District Removes ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

Over racial insensitivity.

San Francisco’s Village of Pain

The city is operating an illegal drug-consumption site.

A Song of Ice and Fire

World Ice Theory and the supernatural imaginary of the Third Reich.

Deeper Than Deep

David Reich’s genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past.

A Sustainable Tourism Lab

Is transforming the island of Rhodes in Greece.

What China’s Up To

In Central America.

EV Needs 13 Freezing Hours To Get 650 Km

With 3 charging stops and no heater.

To Witness The Covid Divide, Walk From Brooklyn To Queens

Attitudes are no longer about red states or blue states — it’s all down to class.

Canada's Health Care System

Overrun by administrators and lacks doctors.

The Wild World of Threats

Animals, including us, evolved to bluster and bluff at their peril.

The Waste Age

Recognising that waste is central, not peripheral, to everything we design, make and do is key to transforming the future.

The Chocolate Route

The humble cocoa bean’s journey from its Amerindian origins to worldwide dominance is a lesson in the power of trade.

Great Books Are Still Great

Read with love, rather than critical distance, the classics can provide tools to subvert oppressive hierarchies.

Why You Should Eat Meat

Not eating animals is wrong. If you care about animals, then the right thing to do is breed them, kill them and eat them.

James Webb Space Telescope Reaches Its Final Destination

One million miles from Earth.

Kashmir’s Hills Hold the Secret of the World’s Biggest Extinction Event

Geologists from all over the world have been visiting the Guryul Ravine for research, but commercial activity has jeopardized the fossil site’s preservation.

An Unwelcome Stowaway

How the silk trade and climate change led to the Plague of Justinian.

Arsenic and Old Leeches

Three reasons why you shouldn’t consult the nineteenth-century WebMD archives.

Compared With Quebec

Florida feels like another planet. 

Maternity Leave

Britain's ‘wokest university’ makes move to ban ‘exclusionary’ term.

‘A Staggering Act of Appeasement’

The decision of the Biden administration to arrange for the payment of Iran’s dues at the United Nations.

A Confederate Curriculum

 How Miss Millie taught the Civil War.