Inroads Journal

Like the ancient gods, AI cannot create great literature and art

The old British two-party system has fractured, probably beyond repair I begin with a few numbers in tables 1, 2 and 3 below. They show that the May 2026 elections for many local authorities in England and for the Scottish and Welsh parliaments were disastrous for Labour, which saw its support base disintegrate throughout the country. TABLE 1: ENGLISH LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS Note: Electoral system: First-Past-the-Post. Not all English local authorities were up for election.

Can empathy make Susan Holt's New Brunswick Liberals a different kind of government? New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt Shortly before Christmas, New Brunswick Liberal Premier Susan Holt's office issued a series of " empathy guidelines ": instructions for staff, intended to present what CBC News called a "kinder, gentler" perception of government.

When even Davos Man sounds like a value-free AI bot The biopics on Kafka keep coming, though the mystery remains how this employee of the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute who could negotiate bureaucratic hurdles without difficulty came to record the stranglehold of bureaucracy over people's lives, spawning in the process a potent adjective out of his own name; who suffering from writer's block as few others experience, left a literary heritage only the rarest of writers can claim; who...

How has the Holocaust affected our understanding of what came before and after? Medieval French Jews In an article in the Winter/Spring 2026 issue of Inroads, I discussed The Emperor of Lies, Steve Sem-Sandberg's remarkable book about the Łódź ghetto, in the context of my growing up in Canada after World War II as the child of Polish Jews from Łódź who were the only ones in their families to survive the Holocaust.

Income inequality within countries has helped undermine cooperation between them Branko Milanovic, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World. London: Allen Lane, 2025. 264 pages. Economic growth since the Second World War, and especially since the end of the Cold War, has generated rising world income. It has expanded fortyfold since 1950 from roughly $5 trillion to $200 trillion.

What happens on the right matters, and it contains some ominous signs Tucker Carlson. Photo: By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America - Tucker Carlson, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=192870430 In the early 20th century, there was a flourishing Jewish community in Harbin in the far northeast of China.

Danielle Smith's political survival strategy reflects the views of a MAGA-influenced minority in Alberta's United Conservative Party Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Readers above a certain age will remember two of classic political jokes of the 1970s and 1980s. One joke asks: if students from around the world had to write an essay about the elephant, what would they title it? The British student writes The Elephant and the British Empire. The French student writes The Love Life of the Elephant.

Viktor Orbán's regime was undone by the very institutional structure designed to secure its durability The shock On election night, April 12, a spontaneous street party erupted in Hungary's cities, in images that were to circle the globe.

Court decisions have placed new obstacles in BC's rocky road toward reconciliation with First Nations Richmond, BC: Who owns it? There is a storm brewing in British Columbia over Indigenous rights vs. non-Indigenous rights; over sovereign land title vs. fee simple property title; over the law vs. politics; over unceded vs. settler BC.