This Dying Empire: America’s Time of Fear
Reckoning with the Meanings of Orlando.
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Lessons From the 2015 Canadian Election
What are the painful takeaways from the Liberal Party’s overwhelming victory in Canada’s recent federal election?
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What Links Don Draper and Stephen Harper? A Lot More Than You’d Think.
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By Mark McConaghy
How one downtown wine bar can become a space of comfort in a world gone mad with violence and inequality.
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How can Joseph Boyden’s epic novel help us imagine ethical forms of community and ecology for a post-colonial Canada?
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By Mark McConaghy
In light of the Catalonian consultation on independence earlier this month, I try to analyze what lies at the very core of nationalist thought and politics in our contemporary world.
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By Mark McConaghy
On how we are processing the terrible events of last week, even as we remain caught in our web of digital existence.
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By Mark McConaghy
In this new series, entitled The Scene, we send our writers to spaces and cultural events around our city to report about them. What does it mean to be alive in our here and now?
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By Mark McConaghy
Despite our technological and material mastery over the world, why does melancholy still persist?
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By Sean Callaghan
My move from Academics to the private sector, and what I’ve learned so far.
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The 14th Floor 