Is Canada on a well-worn path to destruction?
There are surprising commonalities in the rise and fall of 11 historic empires. Canada is on the same path…
Good Seuss, bad Seuss, less Seuss, no Seuss?
Ignoring, desensitizing or eliminating history is the wrong approach. Learning, engaging and explaining will have a more positive effect…
Bizarre economic theory maintains deficits don’t matter
A new twist on MMT argues deficits don’t matter, government surpluses are counter-productive and there’s no reason to restrain government spending…
Silent Witness of a Holocaust Suitcase
A Canadian family helped solve the mystery of a teenage girl’s life and death at Auschwitz…
If you like medieval drama, The Last Kingdom fits the bill
The Last Kingdom isn’t a scrupulously accurate historical documentary. Still, it’s quite engrossing as a viewing spectacle…
Time for a rational approach to environmental issues
Fortunately, some writers and thinkers still believe in healthy debate and intellectual discourse on the environment. One of them is Peter Foster…
A user’s guide to coping in an age of anxiety
Health law and policy professor Timothy Caulfield takes readers through an average day to show how evidence can allay our fears and inform our decisions…
Cary Grant was a complicated, brilliant creation
Grant may have lacked formal education and been a troubled soul, but he was nobody’s fool when it came to practising his trade and taking care of business…
A revisionist history of who won the U.S. Civil War
While history may show the South lost on the battlefields, it may have won the war of ideas and influence more than 150 years after the last shot was fired…
Atwood’s childhood works reveals early glimmers of creativity
Compilation of juvenilia hints at the famed author’s first influences – and a characteristic sense of humour, say U of A experts…