Reading Time: 4 minutes Protecting cultural industries from competition and propping them up with public money is just wasteful
Category: A&E
TV’s Vikings is good fun and semi-reasonable history
Reading Time: 3 minutes But large-scale medieval violence and plundering wasn’t uniquely Viking – not by a long stretch
Stan Lee, left-wing culture warrior
Reading Time: 3 minutes Under his leadership, Marvel directly challenged societal norms on race, religion, war, gender and sexuality
The Super Bowl ads get punted in Canada – again
Reading Time: 3 minutes Donald Trump may take the credit, but you can blame CTV/Bell Media and the CRTC
Rhodes cultural policy is a template for Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Greeks believe that supporting the arts and culture is not a luxury but an investment in human progress
Stephen Harper returns, and he has plenty to say
Reading Time: 3 minutes The former Conservative prime minister has advice for us on Trump, economics, immigration and more
The man who shot Billy the Kid
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pat Garrett has been maligned for killing his “friend” in a “cowardly” way. Neither indictment is persuasive
Fear and loathing in the realm of Donald Trump
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the Trump world, money is the key metric and the truth is relative. Can the midterm elections change anything?
Turning an inner-city wasteland into a thriving cultural hub
Reading Time: 4 minutes How the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a bastion of contemporary art, resurrected a community and why others should follow its lead
Revisiting The Boondocks in the Trump era
Reading Time: 3 minutes The comic strip turned TV show didn’t just raise eyebrows, it raised blood pressure by poking aggressively at race relations