Probes
Bob Rowan tells a free speech story about a too-little-known American philosopher, Alexander Meiklejohn.
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How to keep thinking during and after the Apocalypse. Dan Gawthrop has a few practical suggestions.
Read MoreOld Age and Writing are disturbed by thought. Three George Stanley poems.
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In Italy, La Dolce Vita turns sour; in Germany, “stability” is still in fashion; in Switzerland, yodel-oh.
Read MoreGerman chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term, the Far Right won seats in Parliament for the first time since Hitler. Dooney’s is on-site to read the tea-leaves.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett takes on the current hot-button issue of Cultural Appropriation and what it means to Canada, its artistic community, and to the future of democracy.
Read MoreIs it the End of the World as we know it? And, if so, Michael Boughn asks, what will it look like? Zombies, Aliens, AI? Updating the Apocalypse.
Read MoreNovelist Steven Galloway got fired from his job as Creative Writing Dept. chair at UBC. What happened? It depends on the story you tell.
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