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This play predicted Argentina's Dirty War — and has a chilling message for our own time In her 1963 play about truth, lies and state violence, Griselda Gambaro predicted the dark period Argentina was hurtling towards. As part of a collaboration with Soulpepper Theatre Company, we bring you inside a room where innocence doesn’t exist and even the walls themselves can’t be trusted. Social Sharing The Walls is about the 'danger of not seeing what is in front of us,' says director Beatriz Pizano Pauline Holdsworth · Posted: Apr 28, 2021 3:55 PM ET | Last Updated: April 28 In T...

With the world in crisis, what's an intellectual to do? In 1919, Romain Rolland wrote the Declaration of the Independence of the Mind as a call to intellectuals to rise above division, censorship and nationalism of their day. Nahlah Ayed speaks to Canadian and international thinkers to consider the role of the intellectual today, and to rewrite the declaration for our own post-truth moment. Social Sharing Nahlah Ayed · Posted: Apr 16, 2021 5:36 PM ET | Last Updated: April 16 French novelist and essayist Romain Rolland believed passionately in the public duty of the intellectual. He wrote t...

Article content March 11 is the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring a pandemic and some are betting that we’re on the verge of an historic party. “In the 1920s, after the Spanish Flu and (the) First World War, there was a dramatic surge and you saw things like jazz clubs and ballroom dancing,” Cees ’t Hart, chief executive of Danish brewer Carlsberg A/S, told the Financial Times last month. “After (COVID-19), there will be for sure some bright side in our kind of business.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshin...

Harvard professor explores how technology shaped the role of women in society In her new book Work Mate Marry Love, Harvard professor Debora Spar argues that nearly all the decisions we make in our most intimate lives — whom we marry, how we have children, and how we build families — have always been driven by technology. She explains how these changes in technology have also affected the role of women in society throughout history. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Mar 02, 2021 6:21 PM ET | Last Updated: March 2 Harvard professor Debora Spa offers a guide to life before — and after...

PT 2: Black Canadian writers on finding 'home' in their work What kinds of responsibility does a Black writer have? Is it enough to just write whatever inspires you, or is there an obligation to take on the big questions of culture, class, colour? In this two-part series, we hear from Black Canadian writers about the politics of everyday life and art. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Feb 25, 2021 7:17 PM ET | Last Updated: February 26 From left to right: writers George Elliott Clarke, Afua Cooper and André Alexis — all featured guests in our two-part series, Behind the Lines.(Submitte...