If you like medieval drama, The Last Kingdom fits the bill
The Last Kingdom isn’t a scrupulously accurate historical documentary. Still, it’s quite engrossing as a viewing spectacle…
Time for a rational approach to environmental issues
Fortunately, some writers and thinkers still believe in healthy debate and intellectual discourse on the environment. One of them is Peter Foster…
A user’s guide to coping in an age of anxiety
Health law and policy professor Timothy Caulfield takes readers through an average day to show how evidence can allay our fears and inform our decisions…
Cary Grant was a complicated, brilliant creation
Grant may have lacked formal education and been a troubled soul, but he was nobody’s fool when it came to practising his trade and taking care of business…
A revisionist history of who won the U.S. Civil War
While history may show the South lost on the battlefields, it may have won the war of ideas and influence more than 150 years after the last shot was fired…
What Jeopardy! teaches us about learning styles
It’s important for schools to have a knowledge-rich curriculum that sequentially builds on knowledge year by year. Alex Trebek taught us that…
Christmas pantomime a charming holiday tradition
There’s no requirement to stick to the details of the original story. The entertainment imperative trumps ‘authenticity’ every time…
Charley Pride knocked down country music’s racial barriers
Audiences took a while to warm up to a black country musician. He wasn’t promoted in this fashion and photos didn’t accompany his early singles…
Atwood’s childhood works reveals early glimmers of creativity
Compilation of juvenilia hints at the famed author’s first influences – and a characteristic sense of humour, say U of A experts…
Father Brown is G.K. Chesterton’s most durable creation
He was an early and vocal critic of Nazism. He was also an unapologetic opponent of eugenics and derisive towards the concept of racial purity…