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Losing Our Heads

Neuroscience is a modern obsession worth billions. But is it the best way to understand ourselves?

Ian Gold and Suparna Choudhury
Bubble 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 Macdonald

Suharu Ogawa is a Toronto-based illustrator originally from Japan whose clients include The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Canadian Grocer, Fast Company, Maisonneuve, NUVO, Reader’s Digest, Swerve and more. She is also a decent table tennis player. Visit http://www.suharuogawa.com.

Losing Our Heads

Neuroscience is a modern obsession worth billions. But is it the best way to understand ourselves?

Ian Gold and Suparna Choudhury
Bubble 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 Macdonald
Shaken, and Stirred

Plumbing a millennia-old human relationship with seismicity

Sir Christopher Ondaatje
The 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

Kent Roach and Craig Forcese
The House That Bill Built

The enduring legacy of the Conservative who really wasn’t

Michael Taube
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 Forbes
Good 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

Laura Penny, Harry Critchley, Rita Shelton Deverell, and Alexander Macleod
Unfriended

Ignored by modern philosophy, maligned by the Enlightenment, friendship hasn’t had a champion since the Greeks

Patrick Keeney
The Home Front

An illuminating view of how PTSD really works

Anthony Feinstein

Featured Articles

Neuroscience is a modern obsession worth billions. But is it the best way to understand ourselves?

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

In the fury of rebuilding after the fire, few are asking more fundamental questions about a struggling northern boomtown

Neuroscience is a modern obsession worth billions. But is it the best way to understand ourselves?

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

In the fury of rebuilding after the fire, few are asking more fundamental questions about a struggling northern boomtown

Plumbing a millennia-old human relationship with seismicity

“Trenchant!” “Transcendent.” A “riveting exploration” of the book-blurbing economy.

Bill C-51’s Goldilocks problem, and what needs to change in Canada’s anti-terror response

The enduring legacy of the Conservative who really wasn’t

How can two music lovers have a book-length conversation about music that manages to evade the subject almost entirely?

Devon Code’s debut novel is about young men united by ideas, the stranger the better

Emma Donoghue’s novel makes the case for loving hearts over biological ties

The crisis in education, and the surprising uses of the liberal arts

Ignored by modern philosophy, maligned by the Enlightenment, friendship hasn’t had a champion since the Greeks

An illuminating view of how PTSD really works