Stop pretending we can function without GDP
Diane Coyle’s history of GDP proves it is the only tool that reliably links prosperity to your personal well-being
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Why McLuhan matters now more than ever
McLuhan was right: media environments now shape thought, education and public behaviour more powerfully than content itself
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Stop sneering at Topo Gigio and Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation
Dismissing them as old fashioned says more about us than about them
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The Grenada invasion could have broken the Reagan-Thatcher relationship. It didn’t
Reagan sidelined Thatcher by invading Grenada without consulting her but the relationship survived anyway
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Dead Wrong is dead right about residential schools
Dead Wrong examines how claims about residential schools became accepted in Canada despite a lack of evidence
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Why a slave was erased from a family portrait
A young enslaved boy was painted out of a family portrait only to be restored decades later
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Book warns the decline in marriage comes at a high cost
Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell, in their book I… Do?, write that the fading value of marriage is a threat to social stability
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What Superman and punk rock have to say about rebellion today
In a culture that prizes cynicism, decency and restraint now look strangely subversive
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No, Europeans didn’t invent African slavery
African slavery long predates European involvement, according to a new book
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Margaret Thatcher didn’t play the feminist game
Thatcher rejected modern feminist labels but shattered the glass ceiling anyway
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