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Ideas - 2007: The City of Words, Part 1Oct 13, 2011 | 54:00Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 1 Audio
Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 1 Oct 13, 2011 | 54:00The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.
Ideas - 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 5Oct 12, 2011 | 54:23Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 5 Audio
Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 5 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:23In the 2006 Massey Lectures, The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
Ideas - 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 4Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 4 Audio
Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 4 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22In the 2006 Massey Lectures, The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
Ideas - 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 3Oct 12, 2011 | 54:23Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 3 Audio
Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 3 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:23In the 2006 Massey Lectures, The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
Ideas - 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 2Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 2 Audio
Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 2 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22In the 2006 Massey Lectures, The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
Ideas - 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 1Oct 12, 2011 | 54:23Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 1 Audio
Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 1 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:23In the 2006 Massey Lectures, The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
Ideas - 2005: Race Against Time, Part 1Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2005: Race Against Time, Part 1 Audio
Ideas 2005: Race Against Time, Part 1 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing failure to help.
Ideas - 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 5Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 5 Audio
Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 5 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22In A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age, can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Ideas - 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 4Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 4 Audio
Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 4 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22In A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age, can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Ideas - 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 3Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 3 Audio
Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 3 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22In A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age, can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Ideas - 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 2Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 2 Audio
Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 2 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22In A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age, can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Ideas - 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 1Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 1 Audio
Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 1 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22In A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age, can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Ideas - 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 5Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 5 Audio
Ideas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 5 Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Beginning with Native oral stories, -winning author and scholar Thomas King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples.
Ideas - 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 4Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 4 Audio
Ideas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 4 Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Beginning with Native oral stories, -winning author and scholar Thomas King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples.
Ideas - 2003: The Truth About Stories,  Part 3Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 3 Audio
Ideas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 3 Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Beginning with Native oral stories, -winning author and scholar Thomas King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples.

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