Something Rotten In the State of the Arts?
Purists claim the arts should not be sullied by business. Pragmatists devalue the BA for failing to impart job skills. A pox on them, for they are all wrong. A defence of the liberal arts degree
Research & Ideas
Lodes of Culture
U of T researchers are unearthing the A-Æ-B-Cs of cultural history from medieval times to the present
Ethnic Isolation
Ethnic communities risk being at a disadvantage
Of Murder and Magic
The inspiration for the fanciful novels of Guy Gavriel Kay and Caroline Roe sprang from the U of T campus
A Huge Presence
Through the lens of Lee Miller
The True North?
J.E.H. MacDonald's view of the Algoma region
Zeal
William Holman Hunt's portrait of Henry Wentworth Monk
Cross-Reference
Italo-Byzantine crosses part of the Lillian Malcove Collection
Discovering Canada’s Past
Excavating sites of ancient settlements
The Thousand-Year Itch
How do you get 10 scholars to wax anything but bored about the millennium? Scratch the surface of the Y2K hype and ask them to predict the future of their fields
Green Power
A 1969 article in The Varsity ignited students to start the Canadian environmental movement
Stay the Course
Researchers test perceptions of highway traffic speed