December 2016
Losing Our Heads
Neuroscience is a modern obsession worth billions. But is it the best way to understand ourselves?
Ian Gold and Suparna ChoudhuryBubble Weary in Trump's America
A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation
Padma Viswanathan
Should Fort Mac Still Exist?
In the fury of rebuilding after the fire, few are asking more fundamental questions about a struggling northern boomtown
Nancy MacdonaldShaken, and Stirred
Plumbing a millennia-old human relationship with seismicity
Sir Christopher OndaatjeThe Logroller's Waltz
“Trenchant!” “Transcendent!” A “riveting exploration” of the book-blurbing economy
John Semley
Blanket Security
Bill C-51’s Goldilocks problem, and what needs to change in Canada’s anti-terror response
Dancing Around the Point
How can two music lovers have a book-length conversation about music that manages to evade the subject almost entirely?
John Beckwith
Text and the Single Guy
Devon Code’s debut novel is about young men united by ideas, the stranger the better
Andrew ForbesGood Mother, Bad Mother
Emma Donoghue’s novel makes the case for loving hearts over biological ties
Sandra Martin
Can the Humanities Save Us?
The crisis in education, and the surprising uses of the liberal arts
Alexander Macleod , Harry Critchley , Laura Penny and Rita Shelton Deverell
Unfriended
Ignored by modern philosophy, maligned by the Enlightenment, friendship hasn’t had a champion since the Greeks
Patrick Keeney