IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In
In conversation with IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed, the 2023 Massey lecturer Astra Taylor explains how her
Philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain brought up an important question during the 1993 CBC Massey Lecture
In a world where peace and justice can be hard to come by, The Hague in The Netherlands projects som
A conversation with Winnipeg Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi about home, belonging, racism, living down
Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has witnessed nearly a century of change. At 91 years old she
For musician and radio producer, David Schulman, the violin can swing and sing like nothing else. Sc
An Ontario trucking union predicts a shortage of 30,000 truckers in Canada as old hands retire faste
Herodotus was committed to understanding the human causes of conflict and war. He gathered stories —
A century after the founding of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, the sounds of Black go
"In the dark times, will there also be singing?" Bertolt Brecht once asked. World literature sc
In the thorny thickets of love and desire, how do Shakespeare’s characters talk to each other? And w
Fears of technological overreach, environmental decline, and the violent rise of the irrational: our
Nothing seems to make a city politician’s eyes light up like the promise of the smart city. In his b
In the age of growing polarization, how do you tackle injustice without demonizing your enemies? For
Humans are storytelling creatures. But literary scholar Peter Brooks argues that stories have become
Charisma can be a dangerous thing in politics. Writer and scholar Molly Worthen examines how today’s
Timmins calls itself “the city with a heart of gold." And it offers a fast track to permanent resid
What does it mean to be a good person? Irish scholar and writer Declan Kiberd argues that Ulysses —
Climate change has transformed the Arctic faster than most places on the planet. Inuit know this bet
Chava Rosenfarb, Holocaust survivor and Canadian Yiddish writer, was born 100 years ago in Łódź, Pol
