IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In
Two hundred years ago, Wilhelm von Humboldt created the public education system as we know it today.
Bureaucracies were created to get the work done and get it done efficiently, according to 19th-centu
The late Lois Wilson didn’t tell you what to believe — she just lived by example. And what an exampl
A final experiment from a dying musician. A painter whose work finds its cultural moment, posthumous
New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin calls himself one-sixth Canadian. For 55 years, he and his family h
Theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham has spent her life captivated by gravity. She has taken up fly
Brutalist architecture has been celebrated as monumental and derided as ‘concrete monstrosity.' But
Without us, horses would be nowhere, and vice-versa. It was a partnership — our brains and their bra
In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus travelled the ancient world gathering stories from a wide range of
If the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were rewritten today, what rights would we add to striv
The right to freedom of thought and freedom of expression is especially resonant in our own time. In
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, "Everyone has the right to leave any country, incl
Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares, "No one shall be subjected to arbi
How do we create a better world? In a five-part series, IDEAS explores efforts to imagine new possib
Marriage is on the decline in Canada. And in heterosexual unions, it’s women who more often initiate
For millennia, human beings along with their domesticated animals have travelled to bring sheep, goa
Robert Macfarlane says his writing is about the relationship between landscape and the human heart.
The Arctic and the Amazon may be far apart geographically, but art connects them intimately. As part
You can’t pay rent with experimental poetry, so Hilary Peach trained as a welder. Twenty-plus years
Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander muses about the interplay of jazz, physics, and math.
