The phrase “inconvenience is the cost of community” has become a popular slogan online, referring to the effort required to maintain meaningful connections with others – effort which, some suggest, we ...

Our culture and lifestyle editor looks back at the year’s top pop culture moments. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. We’re doing something a little different over the next two weeks. We’ll ...

Culture has always had influence, but in 2026, it becomes the headliner. Not the opener. Not the background soundtrack. The star. And here’s the truth too many leaders still refuse to face: Culture ...

Music without instruments and lyrics without meaning. Endless reboots, sequels and superheroes in the cinema. After a burst of magnificent TV dramas in the noughties, every glitzy new show is hailed ...

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Displayed at MOPOP, Jimi Hendrix’s guitar embodies the accidents and defiance that shaped modern sound, and that A.I. can’t replicate. Courtesy Museum of Pop Culture As someone who spends her days ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer looks at whether culture is a cause or consequence of inequality. Image: Free to Choose Network Photo: Free to Choose Network Culture is one of the most underrated ideas ...

In modern democracies and republics across the world, governments organize group relations, compose and enforce laws, manage ties with other states, and collect taxes. Parallel to politics but no less ...

Culture is the set of knowledge and practices people use to express themselves and make sense of the world collectively. As Brazilian philosopher Marilena Chauí reminds us, the word derives from the ...

Think of individual workplaces as their own countries, each governed by a specific set of social norms and ways of operating. Just as you wouldn’t travel to Japan expecting the same way of life as you ...

Safety culture is one of those fuzzy concepts like “obscenity” that nobody can precisely define but everybody knows it when they see it. Safety culture is first and foremost a mindset, a set of shared ...

Culture is one of the most talked-about priorities in leadership, yet one of the least consistently understood. Executives routinely declare it is a strategic imperative. They launch values campaigns, ...