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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 52 days 23 hours 20 minutes
Replacing the Professionals - Richard Susskind
The 2016 Sir Graham Day Lecture in Ethics, Morality and the Law by British author and scholar Richard Susskind. Technology is not just taking over factory jobs, it's about to do the jobs of lawyers, doctors, journalists and other professionals.
Wachtel On The Arts - Kent Monkman
It's impossible to walk past a work by First Nations artist Kent Monkman without being seduced into a closer look. Multi-layered, immersive, and playfully perverse, Monkman's work tells the other story of Canada.
The Orwell Tapes, Part 3
He was one of the most influential writers of our time. His name was Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell. Who was the man who gave us 'big brother', 'thoughtcrime', 'doublethink', whose name looms so large in this era of mass surveillance?
All In The Family, Part 2
Childhood trauma is increasingly being seen as a major factor in academic under-achievement. Mary O'Connell explores what happened at one high school when suspensions and punishments were replaced with new "trauma-informed" approaches.
The Discovery of the Heart
Physicists tell us that perhaps there are parallel universes. Is there a parallel universe of the heart, where we might find the real values that make us tick? Maybe it's not law and government that makes a Good Society, maybe it's something far deeper.
All In The Family, Part 1
Mary O'Connell explores the "Adverse Childhood Experiences" or ACE study and how its findings are being integrated into medical practice today.
The Orwell Tapes, Part 2
He was one of the most influential writers of our time. His name was Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell. Who was the man who gave us 'big brother', 'thoughtcrime', 'doublethink', whose name looms so large in this era of mass surveillance?
Ideas from the Trenches - Undoing Linguicide
Lorena Fontaine is completing her PhD at the University of Manitoba and is battling to revive aboriginal languages. She argues that Canadian indigenous communities have a legal right to the survival of language.
Talking Philosophy: War and Peace, Part 2 (Encore Nov 19, 2015
Philosophers Michael Blake, Simone Chambers, Arthur Ripstein and IDEAS Executive Producer Greg Kelly grapple with the nature, the rules, and the challenges of war and peace, yesterday and today.
The Endo of Capitalism? (Encore November 25, 2015)
Paul Kennedy speaks to Paul Mason, one of Britain's most outspoken critics of neoliberalism, about why he is optimistic that technology and our changing relationship with the state may create societies that are healthier and more just.