Canada at 150: Point to the Dead Bodies (and Keep Pointing)
How Should Progressives Respond to Canada’s 150th Birthday?
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The False Commons: A Blue-Bottled World in Palo Alto
What Can the Culture of Silicon Valley Not See?
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How Should We Understand the UK’s Decision to Leave the EU?
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What Links Don Draper and Stephen Harper? A Lot More Than You’d Think.
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In which Sean Callaghan ruminates on the political unconscious of The Walking Dead, on what it means to have hope during a zombie apocalypse, and where we go after the dust has settled on all our dead undead.
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By Mark McConaghy
For a generation defined by the structured rhythms of the school and the corporation, what possibilities exist to nurture the “gaps” in experience the lead to genuine change?
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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
How can we move beyond all of our petty sorrows and vulnerabilities to gain a truly meaningful form of social existence?
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By Sean Callaghan
No one else is trying to rewrite the future, so the rest of us should start.
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By Mark McConaghy
Martin Scorsese’s latest film is a 3 hour montage of relentless sex, drugs, debauchery, and rampant disregard for the victims of financial predation. So is this supposed to be a critique of Wall Street or a glorification of it? I weigh in on the controversy surrounding the film.
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