“What’s past is prologue,” Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest. The idea that history can help us understand current political events forms the core of an essay today in The Conversation Canada by Henry Giroux of McMaster University. Prof. Giroux looks at the horrendous practice by the Trump administration of separating children from immigrant and asylum-seeking parents crossing the southern border of the United States and asks: Where have we seen similar acts of “state terrorism” before?

The Toronto Pride parade happens this weekend. It’s usually a fun and festive event, but this year it’s been suggested spectators should wear black to mourn the victims from the city’s gay village who were murdered by an alleged serial killer. It’s part of how queer politics is becoming more mainstream, says Sky Gilbert of University of Guelph, who gives a wonderful history of gay rights in the 20th century.

Is “management” a legitimate social science field? Joel Bothello of Concordia examines how management academics at university business schools are perceived by academia, business professionals – and by themselves.

And finally…tomorrow is National Indigenous Peoples Day and Veselin Jungic of Simon Fraser University tells us about a program he’s developed that uses Indigenous storytelling to teach mathematics to young people. Prof. Jungic says he has learned “there is a profound mathematical presence in various Indigenous traditions,” including weaving patterns, canoe designs and strategies used to harvest salmon.

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