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1644 - Experts Say American Democracy is at a Precipice, and Time is Ticking

IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In the age of clickbait and superficial headlines, it's for people who like to think.

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1644 - Experts Say American Democracy is at a Precipice, and Time is Ticking

Mon, 04 Nov 2024
1643 - Can a New Conservatism Offer Solutions to Modern Social Problems?

Fri, 01 Nov 2024
1642 - The Role of Nonfiction in a World of Contested Truths: Writer Pankaj Mishra

Thu, 31 Oct 2024
1641 - Rats: Facing Our Fears, Part Two

Thu, 08 Aug 2024
1640 - Is Fascism Coming Back?

Wed, 30 Oct 2024
1639 - PT 2: How Journalism is Fighting Against Polarization

Tue, 29 Oct 2024
1638 - PT 1: How Journalism is Fighting Against Polarization

Mon, 28 Oct 2024
1637 - Indigenous Archaeologist Reclaims Pleistocene Epoch Story from Colonial Scholars

Fri, 25 Oct 2024
1636 - The History and Mystery of Left-Handers

Wed, 23 Oct 2024
1635 - The Marrow of Nature: A Case for Wetlands

Wed, 23 Oct 2024
1634 - Arts Icon Joan Jonas on Her Great Muse, Cape Breton

Tue, 22 Oct 2024
1633 - The Living Dead: Art and Human Remains

Mon, 21 Oct 2024
1632 - How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Fri, 18 Oct 2024
1631 - Turning the Climate Crisis into Motivation, and Hope into Action

Thu, 17 Oct 2024
1630 - The Story Behind the 1859 Pig War that Claimed One Casualty: A Pig

Tue, 15 Oct 2024
1629 - Dinner on Mars: How to Grow Food When Humans Colonize the Red Planet

Mon, 14 Oct 2024
1628 - The Invisible Shoes of Stutthof Concentration Camp

Fri, 11 Oct 2024
1627 - Modern Patriotism: Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step One)

Thu, 10 Oct 2024
1626 - How the Anthropocene is Changing the Elements — and Us

Wed, 09 Oct 2024
1625 - October 8,1970: The FLQ Manifesto

Tue, 08 Oct 2024
1624 - Civil Discourse or Civil War? Ideas and Realities of the Contemporary University

Mon, 07 Oct 2024
1623 - Masseys at 60: How Physicist Ursula Franklin's Prescient Ideas on Technology Persist

Thu, 03 Oct 2024
1622 - Making Justice Imaginable: Lawyer Lex Gill

Wed, 02 Oct 2024
1621 - Left Is Not Woke: Susan Neiman

Tue, 01 Oct 2024
1620 - Slowing Down in Urgent Times: A Lesson in Hope

Fri, 27 Sep 2024
1619 - Deliberation in a Time of Anger: Making Space for Collective Decision-Making

Thu, 26 Sep 2024
1618 - Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space: A Place to Dream

Wed, 25 Sep 2024
1617 - Child Sex Abuse Prevention: How Best to Protect Kids

Mon, 23 Sep 2024
1616 - Bureaumania: A 'Granular' Look at Corporate Red Tape

Wed, 18 Sep 2024
1615 - For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson

Tue, 17 Sep 2024
1614 - Death and the Artist: Four Stories

Mon, 16 Sep 2024
1613 - New Yorker Writer Calvin Trillin: A Warm Weather Nova Scotian

Fri, 13 Sep 2024
1612 - Pursuing the Mysteries of Gravity with a Radical New Theory

Thu, 12 Sep 2024
1611 - Brutalist Architecture, Beyond Aesthetics

Wed, 11 Sep 2024
1610 - How the Story of the Horse is the History of the World

Tue, 10 Sep 2024
1609 - Herodotus: Eros and Tyranny

Mon, 09 Sep 2024
1608 - Brave New Worlds: Rights for the Future, Part Five

Fri, 06 Sep 2024
1607 - Brave New Worlds: The Rights to Free Thought and Free Expression, Part Four

Thu, 05 Sep 2024
1606 - Brave New Worlds: The Right to Leave, Return and Seek Asylum, Part Three

Wed, 04 Sep 2024
1605 - Brave New Worlds: The Right to Privacy, Part Two

Tue, 03 Sep 2024
1604 - Brave New Worlds: The Right to Security, Part One

Mon, 02 Sep 2024
1603 - Transhumance: An Ancient Practice at Risk

Thu, 29 Aug 2024
1602 - Feline Philosophy: What We Can Learn From Cats

Thu, 22 Aug 2024
1601 - Of Dogs and Derrida: Understanding the dogs’ point of view

Thu, 15 Aug 2024
1600 - The Hinge Years: 1989 | Uprisings and Downfalls

Fri, 09 Aug 2024
1599 - Rats: Haunting Humanity’s Footsteps

Thu, 08 Aug 2024
1598 - Historian uses Canadian prize money to buy drones for Ukraine

Wed, 07 Aug 2024
1597 - For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson

Tue, 06 Aug 2024
1596 - Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #5: Escaping the Burrow

Mon, 05 Aug 2024
1595 - The Hinge Years: 1973 | The Dictators

Fri, 02 Aug 2024