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Grand Theft Auto: high art

by Chris LaVigne

The much maligned and most popular computer game looks like gratuitous violence. But look closer at the context and surrounding milieu of the game, and it emerges as a stinging rebuttal to unfettered capitalism and American cultural and military hegemony.

Whitmore couldn't be more wrong. The Grand Theft Auto games are not only works of art, but are among the most politically engaged pieces of mainstream art to come along in the last ten years.

Half that country's on a feeding tube

by Jennifer Matsui

Shiavo is the latest martyr, but more are on the way.

The realization of a genocide going on in your own backyard tends to put a damper on the BBQ festivities.

Think Kyoto is hard?

by Kevin Potvin

Industry and business leaders, and the political spokespeople they rent, better get used to measures like Kyoto, because this is only the first of many steps and they get harder as we go along. The alternative to voluntary compliance is a lot worse.

We could use more Vera Drakes

by Junius

The film about the 1950s abortion provider raises a lot of issues no one is comfortable talking about, like regret.

Avoiding the energy issue

A bad program with serious design flaws is threatening to crash the whole energy system. Do we choose to fix it or not?

by Dan Crawford

Don't look now, but . . .

by Michael Nenonen

Homelessness is a ghost story, and Canada is fast becoming a haunted house.

No end to war

by Kevin Potvin

It sounds terrifying, but consider the alternatives: what lies ahead for the world beyond any conceivable end to The War on Terror? Win or lose, we're done for. That's why most people are coming around to the White House's stated purpose: it has no end to confront.

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

Bride and Prejudice and Walk on Water

Books We're Reading This Month

reviewed by Kevin Potvin

The Cultural Cold War

Letters to the Republic

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