Campaign poster for Eugene V. Debs and Ben Hanford, the Socialist Party’s candidates in the 1904 United States presidential election. Image courtesy the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. On June 6, 1950, President Harry Truman addressed a gathering of the Association of Better Business Bureaus at the Shoreham Hotel in
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Canadian Dimension: QAnon and America’s political moment
A QAnon flag waves at a Second Amendment rally in Virginia, January 2020. Photo by Anthony Crider/Flickr. According to QAnon supporters, most of whom live in the United States, the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles. Among the nefarious practices of this ruling elite is the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Paying attention: Focus and distraction in the digital age
Today’s most popular social media platforms are essentially ad-revenue-creating attention machines. Their success hinges on their power to bring content to users, users to content, and users to users in a way that maximizes engagement. Photo from iStock. Most of us are familiar with the headline-grabbing report by Microsoft five
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Can a pandemic be boring? Yes, and that’s not necessarily bad
COVID-19 and self-isolation can impact our mental health. Photo from Pxsphere. In August of 2013, Christopher Lane was jogging along a residential street in Duncan, Oklahoma. Lane had come from Australia to study at East Central University on a baseball scholarship. Three teenage boys watched as he ran by them
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