Bob Ross didn’t just paint. He democratized art
His true legacy wasn’t television fame; it was proving that creative talent belongs to everyone
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Stop sneering at Topo Gigio and Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation
Dismissing them as old fashioned says more about us than about them
The Grenada invasion could have broken the Reagan-Thatcher relationship. It didn’t
Reagan sidelined Thatcher by invading Grenada without consulting her but the relationship survived anyway
Why a slave was erased from a family portrait
A young enslaved boy was painted out of a family portrait only to be restored decades later
Book warns the decline in marriage comes at a high cost
Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell, in their book I… Do?, write that the fading value of marriage is a threat to social stability
What Superman and punk rock have to say about rebellion today
In a culture that prizes cynicism, decency and restraint now look strangely subversive
No, Europeans didn’t invent African slavery
African slavery long predates European involvement, according to a new book
Margaret Thatcher didn’t play the feminist game
Thatcher rejected modern feminist labels but shattered the glass ceiling anyway
Canada once took kids’ TV seriously
Children’s television once assumed kids could think and feel deeply. That approach shaped a generation
A new Sinatra treasure trove makes the case for AI in music
A new batch of long-buried Sinatra recordings from SING Records lands with real punch, and the AI behind the sound is hard to dismiss
Why this Michael Caine film lingers in my mind
The Great Escaper isn’t Caine’s best movie, but it’s still well worth watching
The Running Man reboot takes a familiar plot and makes it disturbingly believable
While the original Schwarzenegger Running Man was wild, the remake is uncomfortably plausible
Channing Tatum plays real-life thief in a tense new drama
A tense film about loneliness, deception and reinvention
