I have this little ritual that perhaps will sound minute and insignificant to others, but which is of profound importance to me. Every Friday, after I’ve finished with my workday, I unclasp the watch which has been my companion for some five years now, I set it on my night table, and I won’t put…

“First as tragedy, then as farce.” I’ve joked before that if I hear about another “once in a lifetime crisis” in my lifetime that I may well lose my mind. Well, I was speaking with a friend the other day, and it dawned on me just how widespread this sentiment was among my generation, and…

One of my old professors, Chris Zeichmann, recently published a book called Radical Antiquity about anarchist (in the etymological sense of the term) movements in antiquity. It was an easy read, by which I mean that I ripped through that densely-packed tome in about 4 or 5 days. He gave a plethora of examples of…

Earlier this year, I read a really great book by journalist Omar El Akkad. Its provocative title: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. He was, of course, referring to the humanitarian crisis and genocide in Gaza, but one might also apply his words to a great many other crises throughout history. People…

If you want to understand the lame state of contemporary capitalism, you need not look any further than Toronto’s Union Station. At a first glance, the place will look sickeningly clean, but upon closer inspection you’ll see that it’s quite dirty. Buried beneath a facade of elemental dirt and dust is the tasteless alienation familiar…

… but yes, it could be worse! Believe it or not, I learned about residential schools on vacation. I was twelve years old, maxing and relaxing in Phoenix, Arizona with my family; and my mother brought us to a residential school museum in the city. I don’t remember many of the details—only that the conditions…