From 1968 to 1975, one eighteen story high-rise was the heart of Canada's counterculture. Rochdale College in Toronto was jammed full with leftist organizers, hippies, draft dodgers, students, artists

The Darts team is working on another big episode! In the meantime, we're sharing this one from our friends at PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast. They do a great discussion of OpenAI

The idea of moving to Canada figures prominently in the imagination of many disaffected Americans. Between the mid-60s and early-70s they really did come--and in the 10s of thousands. Yet, when these

Our host Gordon and producer Marc join Evan MacDonald of Kino Lefter to discuss our latest episode - a retrospective on the 2004 documentary "Discordia".

We revisit the extraordinary National Film Board documentary Discordia, directed by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal. The film covered the 2002/03 school year at Concordia University in Montreal, QC. Pro

The Canadian government has recently instituted an expansive Medical Assistance in Dying regime (MAID). But many patients are seeking MAID to address poverty, not just illness. Is MAID letting the gov

Many of the creative industries look like an hourglass. On the one side, you have creators; on the other, the rest of us. In the middle, Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow say there's often a 'chokepoin

The collapse of the crypotcurrency exchange FTX has is forcing a reckoning in the financial world, with calls intensifying to reign in and regulate these emerging technologies. It's also forcing a phi

The right attacks science, liberals uncritically defend it. But there are other ways to see scientific authority. Scientists have always served capitalism, patriarchy, and empire. So sayScience for t

We speak to Paris Marx ofTech Won't Save Us on the shifting politics of Silicon Valley. We'll traverse the intellectual history of hippies-turned-arch-capitalists, and focus especially on their ideas