An Unravelling Global Order
The Venezuelan oil conflict and American interventionism
Nerds and Turds
On January 16, 2026, more than 500 students from over 30 academic institutions assembled in Toronto for the 13th iteration of UofTHacks, Canada’s first student-run ...
Fighting fire with no water
Recent events raise concerns of safety and transparency
Caucus concerns: accessibility, Ryerson’s portrait, and the Coburn Award
The Fall 2025 caucus meeting report
New faces in old places
“In the same way that the heart does not care which life it beats for, the city does not care who fulfils its various functions. …
The affliction of imitation
ἠχώ, ἠχώ, ἠχώ…
Superstition… ain’t the way?
Foolish daughter challenges the very wise Voltaire “Elle est la faiblesse du Genre-Humain, & telle sa perversité, qu’il vaut mieux sans doute pour lui d’être ...
What’s the deal with “what’s the deal”?
Upon picking a theme for this issue, the sitcom-lovers in the room won. I can’t say I’ve watched any Seinfeld, but that’s just fine—Jerry’s not ...
Reduce, reuse, rebirth
The only thing that stays consistent with our rebrands is our obsession with material consumption
The real deal*
*Concept subject to collapse in an ouroboros spacetime – but it’s not the end of the world
Fathering philosophy
The patriarchy of reason as we know it
Is chivalry unfeminist?
On the infantilisation of women in heterosexual constructs of romance
Cannibal capitalism
How does capitalism eat itself to death?
Review: VCDS’s Metamorphoses
How, through tragedy, Metamorphoses teaches its audience to love
Ross et al.
The fathers of The Strand
Simulacra and stimulation
It’s a two syllable word that is everywhere and nowhere at once. Taboo—easy to miss, yet glaringly obvious. But what does it mean today with ...
A lesson in obsession
The Vic Alumni Reading Series featuring Alex Pugsley
On modern art, or the need for the physical
A case for modern art as resistance to modernity
The ouroboros of nostalgia
The 2016 trend is everywhere on social media, but the discussion surrounding the year has a major oversight.
Why scrolling reels is exhausting
A cognitive-resource inspired take on the dopamine reward system for fast and complex media
The Pull of Power
Power does weird things to the human brain, and honestly, so do midterms.
The disappearance of the Y chromosome and the sinister nature of Boy Knowledge
Did you know that the Y chromosome might disappear sometime in the next five to ten million years?
The Ouroboros within: stem cells
The biology of self-sustaining systems
Four fun facts about snakes
Deep in the coal mines of La Guajira, Colombia, students unearthed a skeleton of epic proportions. The gigantic fossils were initially thought to belong to ...
Real isn’t an adjective
he hates poems //
well //
i do too
Promises extended
The smoke sticks all over and lingers. // I’m suddenly afraid of man and his promise, // for it smells like a cigarette.
Grandma
lie when you're tired, // lie when you’re brave, // such a great shame, // such easy handles.
Aftershocks
A thunderclap never truly dies, instead // It bores itself deep into places unseen;
Does my friend have a kinky relationship with an older man?
Or is she just Catholic?
Against the word ‘daddy’
An elegy for a term made unusable by the Internet.
I’m forced to do my chemistry lab for eternity
It’s Groundhog Day but with titrations
8 things to never ask your Amazon Echo
Because some things are better left unsaid