Science, Values and the American Empire: The Canadian Forum in the 1920s

The Canadian Forum is generally appreciated for its expression of leftist political attitudes in the decade after World War I. Equally important, if less radical, is the content of the rest of the journal in reflecting the war's impact upon social conditions & personal values. Especially provocative of public controversy was the Forum's insistence that war had made essential a reevaluation of the relationship between the Christian religion & modern society. Scholars & theologians published in the Forum were ambivalent in their discussion of the implications of the physical & social sciences for spirituality. Another social issue developed in the Forum's pages concerned the role of a liberal University education in a culture which increasingly valued utilitarian ideals. D. Dunseath.