Daniel Baird | The Walrus

The National Ballet’s adaptation of Le Petit Prince is a journey back to childhood

How the Internet endangers freedom of expression

Locking up offenders does little to prevent crime or make us safer. The history behind our impulse to punish

The necessity of funding contemporary art, even if you don’t like it

Father Thomas Rosica, Catholic priest and smooth media operator, is an expert at spreading the Word

Prophecies of impending doom—based on hard science as well as Scripture—abound. Where does our appetite for retribution come from?

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik is an aesthete of the ordinary, and this year’s Massey lecturer

Can the faith of Quebec’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet restore the Catholic Church to innocence?

Jazz inspired Michael Snow, the most influential Canadian artist of all time, to explore the unexplored

The Toronto International Film Festival’s vaulting ambition to create a world-class centre for film