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Culture Beyond Politics

Culture Beyond Politics
"Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia" by John-Baptiste Wicar. Art Institute of Chicago. Public Domain
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You may not be much interested in politics, but politics—to borrow from Trotsky’s famous dictum on war—is certainly interested in you. With indigenous land acknowledgements to sit through, rainbow-coloured sidewalks to tiptoe over, and approved slogans to recite on cue, political preoccupation has colonized nearly all thinking. Entertainment, education, sport, business, and even private conscience now arrive freighted with ideological significance. Everything must justify itself politically before it can simply exist.

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David Solway
David Solway
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David Solway is a Canadian essayist, political commentator, poet, and songwriter whose latest prose book is “Profoundly Superficial” (2025).