Archive - nevermind

On the end of the world

How would you feel if the world was ending? What would you do with your last night on Earth? Who would you spend it with?

May 30 •

April 2025

1989 and all that, or, why history didn't end

The fall of communism was an exhilarating time, but even as the walls came down the seeds of the West's own contradictions were already being sown.

Apr 22 •

January 2025

Terry Fox and the idea of Canada

Terry Fox didn't just try to raise money for cancer, he gave Canadians a way of understanding themselves as a people not despite, but through, their…

Jan 21 •

December 2024

November 2024

Is nostalgia killing childhood?

Childlore is one of the great cultural inheritances of humanity, and one of the most enduring. But it's a fragile ecosystem, and whether it can survive…

Nov 21, 2024 •

July 2024

June 2024

May 2024

How Apple totally lost the plot

The new ad showing the destruction of analog culture to sell iPads is an amazing failure to read the room by a company that used to know better.

May 9, 2024 •

April 2024

Coming to terms with the f** word

As much as Gen Xers romanticize the pop culture of the 1980s, it's important to acknowledge how relentlessly homophobic so much of it was.

Apr 25, 2024 •

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